#prazp

Okay, but Zim and the Tallest are actually legitimately one of my favorite dynamics in any piece of media solely on the basis of how hilariously compelling and compellingly hilarious they are. like imagine the most annoying guy you know from alien grade school grows up to be the worst terrorist your society has ever seen, which incidentally ends up facilitating your own rise to power, and when he kind of almost ends your whole civilization it is a little bit your fault because if you'd let him do his actual assigned job maybe he WOULDNT have stolen a mecha and taken it out on your entire planet. you repeatedly try to send him off to the sorts of places meant to quietly swallow him but somehow he keeps coming back at the most embarrassing, inconvenient, and sometimes catastrophic moments. and at some point during all of this he's low-key imprinted on you as surrogate absentee parental figures, despite the fact that you are a) his age, and b) can't fucking stand him. you're not sure whether it started before or after he rested his entire sense of identity on a rivalry with some random human child plagued by crippling daddy issues but that has definitely not made it any better. you want to kill him but this entire situation has made you feel so unbelievably weird that you've somehow roped yourself into doing a bizarre long-standing pantomime with him instead, like a dysfunctional romantic relationship wherein you keep resolving to break it off but immediately lose your nerve the second you try to look them in the eye. He'll call and you'll be like "I really am gonna end it this time" and somehow it just doesn't happen. You abuse your power to bully him into submission, but it always backfires. You try ghosting but it turns out he's clinically insane. You don't know how any of this happened but you are beginning to suspect there may be no escape. You wonder if he still has the pocket-sized plasma cleanser you begrudgingly lent him in your third year of Elite training.