#sidenote one of my all time favorite zim fics has him broken out of delusion through extended white room torture

[sapphorror]

You know, I think there was a real moment of clarity achieved here with the revelation that he's the thing most likely to get in his own way. That's like, the most self-awareness he's shown over the entire course of IZ canon, I'm almost proud. It's too bad about the brain damage, but,

[emeraldspiral]

#im half joking here but also not#there IS something kind of brilliant in zim realizing hes at his most competent when not given a moment to think#sidenote one of my all time favorite zim fics has him broken out of delusion through extended white room torture#and at this point i think its just canon to me that the greatest weapon against zims psychological defenses is sensory deprivation#i mean it makes SENSE#zim is in a near constant state of state of motion and hes smart enough that simply not thinking too hard about things#is his only recourse for handling certain obvious truths#so what happens when you take everything away and leave him alone to drown in himself for weeks and weeks

You know, I think there was a real moment of clarity achieved here with the revelation that he's the thing most likely to get in his own way. That's like, the most self-awareness he's shown over the entire course of IZ canon, I'm almost proud. It's too bad about the brain damage, but,