#fun fact: I don't even like maple syrup that much xD

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Wanted to do something quick for Canada Day 🇨🇦

A lil' inside joke I've been drawing on that day for some time. Like here and here 🍁

[velociraptoraddict]

Ok lol more headcanon filler episode stuff

Despite the fact that Kailah openly believes in ghosts and has admitted to Dib that she's had a few encounters with them, she's actually terrified of ghosts. But she's too embarrassed to admit it so she keeps trying to come up with excuses on why she can't go ghost hunting with him: "my parents don't like me being out too late" type stuff

Chomp is pretty neutral about ghosts and since they know the worse thing a ghost can do is throw something, they mostly just sit back and watch when Dib does eventually trick her into going to a real haunted house. And honestly, they laugh at Kailah's over the top reactions the same way one would laugh post jump scare at a fake haunted house attraction with the actors and such

Zim can see and hear ghosts, thanks to his Superior Irken Senses...but he doesn't believe they're real??? So he just, hears and sees these floating invisible people and throws up such a thick wall of denial that the others don't realize anything is amiss with him XD

If Gaz decides to tag along, she just finds a quiet place to sit and play her game the whole time, snickering anytime she hears Kailah let out a scream from another room. Depending on how the ghost hunting is going, Chomp may just sit and watch Gaz play, pretty much ignoring any ghost shenanigans

Dib expresses that he wants to go see the loch ness monster but Zim refuses to fly them all the way there when he learns that Scotland is eternally rainy. So Kailah suggests going to Vermont where Champ is in lake Champlain, Zim only agrees after Kailah tells him about Maple sugar, and the Irken basically becomes addicted to the stuff after his first taste. It gets to the point that he practically drags the kids back to Vermont just about every weekend so he can get more. If the weather's nice, they'll end up playing in the lake for a few hours while Zim enjoys his sugary goodness (seriously, if you've never had it, maple sugar is sooo good! It's like; almost the consistency of kinnetic sand (play sand) and tastes like super sugary maple syrup)

I think it'd be fun if they rented a boat and went tubing, with Zim driving and trying his best to make the kids fall into the water. I can easily image Zim laughing for a good 2 minutes every time one of the humans fall off the tube. Though, Chomp would probably be the one to actually steer the boat back around to go pick the kids up so they can have another round and not be left stranded in the middle of the lake lol

If I ever get them out to space, Zim going to need those child leashes for both the kids cause they'd run off in separate directions the first chance they get to explore. Dib would be all over the alien tech, trying to figure out how it works and struggling with the language barrier as he tries to bargain and buy what he thinks is a really high tech piece of equipment but basically equates to a backscratcher. And Kailah would literally try to pet and befriend every alien species to the point that Zim and Chomp would probably have to get in a fight with said alien to keep the girl from being slaughtered, and she'd be off to the next one without even noticing

Zim: *calls Dib's head big for the dozenth time*

Dib: my head's not big!

Kailah: yeah, it's not big Zim. It's just the way his hair is. I'm sure if he styled it differently his ears wouldn't stick out as much and it'd be easier to tell that he has a normal size/shaped head

Dib: *soul crushed even further than ever before*

Gaz and Zim: *laughing at Dib's pain while Kailah tries and fails to correct her mistake*

Zim: *constantly cursing in front of 12 year olds*

Dib: *repeats word in front of his dad*

Membrane: *beats Zim up and washes Dib's mouth with soap*

I've said this one before but:

Dib and Kailah like to send pictures of 7+ foot tall people to Red and Purple with really bad meme font that equates to "out Tallests are Taller than you so stay away" but sometimes they'll also mail them sugary sweets with a note like "you wish yours were as good as ours"

When Kailah calls Zim a bug she means it as a compliment, but when Dib does it it's an insult, and it takes Zim WAY to long to be able to tell the difference

Gaz will sometimes steal GIR so she can have someone to play Minecraft with, because for some reason GIR is a master builder in that game, but at the same time he doesn't understand that enemies are a thing so he's constantly dieing, and Gaz keeps stealing all his dropped loot

The Computer will answer questions and take requests from the kids as long as they ask nicely, much to Zim's chargrin

Kailah and Dib basically uses it as a living Siri/Alexa (asking it random questions about Earth that they could just as easily Google) while if Gaz ever interacts with it it's to play really loud metal music to annoy Zim or to download an alien game into the holo-room so she can play a huge VR type game. Zim keeps screaming at it to stop obeying the hyumans, but because they keep using "please" and "thank you" it ignores Zim

I think it'd be fun to have the skool do a field trip to Membrane Labs, not exactly sure what type of shenanigans they could all get up to there, but I'm sure something would catch fire or explode

I really wish I was confident enough to write the whole Space Australia/fish out of water type story line. Because I feel we could have a lot of fun with Dib and Kailah running around and doing what human children do (pet random animals, explore caves without flashlights, dare each other to summon a ghost) meanwhile Zim's just there, trying to figure out what on Irk a "leprechaun" is, and what it has to do with light refracting off water droplets. All the while, also trying to keep these two smeets alive and out of trouble while Chomp just kinda watches from the side lines cause "what are ya gonna do? That's just how kids are. If they want to jump off a cliff and cannonball into a lake they're welcome to do so as long as it's safe"

I just... really want Irken "how did I end up becoming the babysitter for these crazy alien smeets" Zim as he struggles to rescue the kids from a rogue Sasquatch or something XD is that too much to ask? (Probably, cause I'm the author and I don't think that's where this story is going to end up heading 😅 no matter how much my heart wishes it)