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I don't THINK I've mentioned this before but I wanted to incorporate Bob into my headcanons. The reason is because I used to have Zim and Skoodge argue/fight frequently over a mess of stuff, with the worst cases rising in volume and turning into full blown release of bottled-up emotions on Skoodge's part (as he hates conflict and will put his own emotions aside until he can't take it anymore.) Normally these arguments would bubble down after a few hours and they'd be fine again.
The thing is...my headcanon version of Skoodge is one where these sorts of arguments are almost out-of-character. Not only is he extremely passive and hates conflict, but he's also extremely patient and...well he's patient to a FAULT. He's one of those obnoxiously nice guys that you can't seem to be able to annoy when it counts. Though he does bottle up a lot of things, he mostly expresses this in either passive-aggressively or he'll be extremely sarcastic (now that I think about it, he's pretty much sarcastic every other word anyways, but this time it's more exaggerated and blatant.)

So I wanted to do away with the verbal arguments between them, especially since I've done a lot of shifting around with my headcanon material (these guys are basically living a slice-of-life tv show in my head at this point) BUT I loved the idea and still wanted to mess around with it, therefore---BOB.

He isn't nearly as developed as my AU-ish type content for Zim and Skoodge, nor are his relationships. ...By this point I'm always sure I've explained this in some other post but there's no harm in repeating it I suppose. Bob's story is painfully similar to Skoodge's in that, ever since he was tied to the back of Zim's chair and always sent into the sun, Zim managed to reset the coordinates and went back to Earth with Bob ending up roughing it in Zim's base without his knowing. Skoodge makes his presence known to Zim much earlier than Bob does, but nonetheless a looong time after Zim had already hated skoodge, then learned to live with it, then got to know him a little better, then befriended and dated Skoodge (you will recall I am ZASR trash until the end of time), after all this, Bob finally emerges (or rather, gets caught ) and is found to be living with Skoodge. Skoodge was unaware that Bob was there, but Bob was aware of Skoodge and chose to live in Zim's ventilation system where he entertained himself by fighting rats out of his territory and scratching various rat bites.

After being found out, it is discovered that Bob looked up to Zim ever since that day during Hobo 13, and has since lived in the vents admiring him silently. When Zim finds him, he gets on his knees and essentially kisses the ground he walks on, begging the "Great Tall Zim" not to tell the authorities on him. The reason he specifically wanted to hide on Earth was because his life as a Food Service Drone was miserable and he wanted to live free....while hiding in vents. He also expresses a great desire to admire Zim, claiming if he would work for his stay in Zim's base and that it would be an honor doing work for him.

Initially Zim is suspicious and adverse to yet another random Irken in his base potentially interfering with his plans to take over Earth, but luckily Skoodge had softened him a little on the idea. By this point he is a bit more open to assistance and lowkey making some friends as long as they were Irken. Plus and probably most importantly, Bobby did an excellent job stroking his ego- calling him Great and Tall and offering to essentially be his willing slave- and of course Zim ate that up like candy. Bobby lived up to his admiration for a while, doing random chores and even doing random work (like kneeling down to be a foot rest while Zim enjoyed his favorite Earth TV shows.) After a while, however, Bobby began to observe Zim's incompetence in defeating Earth, and also more importantly- how often Zim slacked off (in his mind at least. Watching TV for example, or attending school when that time could be spent making destructive plans.) To boot, Zim IMMEDIATELY took advantage of Bob's vow to serve Zim, and began forcing him to do impossible, humiliating, dangerous, or often painful tasks. One example might be diving into a barrel of boiling hot chemicals to see what horrifying effects it may have as a potential weapon for humans...or maybe weeds in his lawn.) Bob still put up with this, albeit reluctantly. On top of this, Zim never thanked or acknowledged his work (of course) accept for quick waves of the hand that were obviously not meaningful (yes yes, good work, you have been an excellent slave yaddayadda-- NOW BACK TO WORK!") and would additionally make fun of Bobby for various reasons, most of which didn't make sense or pertained to his height.

Eventually Bobby had enough of this, and this realization comes all at once. After spending his entire life being belittled for his height and not being able to fight back, Bobby had always been submissive and as a result, was terrified to stand up to Zim, but here he finally realizes that he isn't on the Massive anymore. He was on Earth, which meant that his height no longer applied to his status, and he could finally let his true personality through. As it turns out, all those years of constantly submitting himself has lead to loads of overdue bitterness and resentment, which translates into an anger problem and a complete lack of interest in containing his feelings any longer, even if it just makes sense to tone it down a little. At this point, anything that would even suggest he takes orders from anybody will completely throw him over the edge and he does a 180 on Zim, yelling that he used to respect him but not anymore. This sparks a rivalry that merges right into my head canon world where arguments are plentiful and a very large battle of who has the strongest Napoleon Complex explodes between these two. As someone who often plays the peace-maker card, Skoodge tries his best to dispel arguments when they're within his limit, or at the worst of times, cowers behind the couch when full-on rage explosions occur.

At first these two seem to get into arguments constantly, with Bobby refusing to back off like he had all his life, and Zim being too proud to back off once Bob had started the argument, not to mention Zim's accidental tendency to say demeaning or self-righteous things that would set Bobby off to begin with. These fights don't take long to blossom into full-blown animosity from the two of them, with any time spent together often resulting in boyish fist fights that last about ten seconds each (they are both terrible fighters and kind of a bunch of wimps about it.) Though over time, the arguments transition to just verbal assaults that are almost- ALMOST-- room volume. This is because Zim eventually just tires of arguing (somewhat whipped like Gir has him sometimes) and Bobby eventually loses steam as well and realizes that all his attempts to show off his new-found freedom via yelling isn't getting him anywhere that normal communication would.

If we were to follow down the chain of character and relationship development, Zim is the one who starts acting like Bob and him are buddies, often to Bob's surprise and rejection. This would be by stating casually that they're friends to Dib which he would deny straight out, or by asking if he wanted to do something with him, also ending in Bob rejecting the idea and Zim wondering why. ( I should note, I can see Zim seeing the arguments as a sort of 'male bonding' type practice, where he acts a lot angrier than he is and then brushes off the arguments minutes later while Bobby holds onto it for ages.) Eventually Bobby gives in- something Skoodge is VERY relieved about- and all three of them start hanging out as a single pack of buddies. Bobby never reaches the level of friendship Zim and Skoodge have for each other, he actually acts more like a side character in my head. He is definitely starting to gain traction though, so I figured I should finally get to drawing this guy... cussing up a storm at Zim, the latter being done with this guy and putting up a hand to block the incoming wave of verbal abuse while Skoodge continues to be an adorable failure of a blood-thirsty Irken War-Soldier and stands there scandalized by loud noises and arguments and such.... I love him, he is my pride and joy

I didn't spend tooo much time on this. I think I might have actually spent the same amount of time typing this description novella. I did want to focus on having the height differences accurate. As you can see, Bobby is considerably shorter than Zim (quite a feat) and to think he's actually trying to make himself look taller by standing on his tippy toes here. ....Please ignore the fact that Zim and Skoodge ISN'T accurate in height I mean I tried, since Skoodge is a WEE bit taller than Zim, but his shape is so hard to make tall with his small fat head. Having Zim and Skoodge be the same height is really 'close enough' since they truly are almost the same height. I even have a mental joke going in my head where Skoodge is only a few centimeters taller than Zim, but since height is such an important factor in Irken society, even Zim acknowledges this as a considerable difference in height. This means that Skoodge has the opportunity to make short jokes to Zim He does so playfully, but he generally avoids them since he's so goshdawn sickeningly kind.

ANYWHO, enjoy this little doodle coupled with this ridiculously long explanation of said image

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I don't THINK I've mentioned this before but I wanted to incorporate Bob into my headcanons. The reason is because I used to have Zim and Skoodge argue/fight frequently over a mess of stuff, with the worst cases rising in volume and turning into full blown release of bottled-up emotions on Skoodge's part (as he hates conflict and will put his own emotions aside until he can't take it anymore.) Normally these arguments would bubble down after a few hours and they'd be fine again.
The thing is...my headcanon version of Skoodge is one where these sorts of arguments are almost out-of-character. Not only is he extremely passive and hates conflict, but he's also extremely patient and...well he's patient to a FAULT. He's one of those obnoxiously nice guys that you can't seem to be able to annoy when it counts. Though he does bottle up a lot of things, he mostly expresses this in either passive-aggressively or he'll be extremely sarcastic (now that I think about it, he's pretty much sarcastic every other word anyways, but this time it's more exaggerated and blatant.)

So I wanted to do away with the verbal arguments between them, especially since I've done a lot of shifting around with my headcanon material (these guys are basically living a slice-of-life tv show in my head at this point) BUT I loved the idea and still wanted to mess around with it, therefore---BOB.

He isn't nearly as developed as my AU-ish type content for Zim and Skoodge, nor are his relationships. ...By this point I'm always sure I've explained this in some other post but there's no harm in repeating it I suppose. Bob's story is painfully similar to Skoodge's in that, ever since he was tied to the back of Zim's chair and always sent into the sun, Zim managed to reset the coordinates and went back to Earth with Bob ending up roughing it in Zim's base without his knowing. Skoodge makes his presence known to Zim much earlier than Bob does, but nonetheless a looong time after Zim had already hated skoodge, then learned to live with it, then got to know him a little better, then befriended and dated Skoodge (you will recall I am ZASR trash until the end of time), after all this, Bob finally emerges (or rather, gets caught ) and is found to be living with Skoodge. Skoodge was unaware that Bob was there, but Bob was aware of Skoodge and chose to live in Zim's ventilation system where he entertained himself by fighting rats out of his territory and scratching various rat bites.

After being found out, it is discovered that Bob looked up to Zim ever since that day during Hobo 13, and has since lived in the vents admiring him silently. When Zim finds him, he gets on his knees and essentially kisses the ground he walks on, begging the "Great Tall Zim" not to tell the authorities on him. The reason he specifically wanted to hide on Earth was because his life as a Food Service Drone was miserable and he wanted to live free....while hiding in vents. He also expresses a great desire to admire Zim, claiming if he would work for his stay in Zim's base and that it would be an honor doing work for him.

Initially Zim is suspicious and adverse to yet another random Irken in his base potentially interfering with his plans to take over Earth, but luckily Skoodge had softened him a little on the idea. By this point he is a bit more open to assistance and lowkey making some friends as long as they were Irken. Plus and probably most importantly, Bobby did an excellent job stroking his ego- calling him Great and Tall and offering to essentially be his willing slave- and of course Zim ate that up like candy. Bobby lived up to his admiration for a while, doing random chores and even doing random work (like kneeling down to be a foot rest while Zim enjoyed his favorite Earth TV shows.) After a while, however, Bobby began to observe Zim's incompetence in defeating Earth, and also more importantly- how often Zim slacked off (in his mind at least. Watching TV for example, or attending school when that time could be spent making destructive plans.) To boot, Zim IMMEDIATELY took advantage of Bob's vow to serve Zim, and began forcing him to do impossible, humiliating, dangerous, or often painful tasks. One example might be diving into a barrel of boiling hot chemicals to see what horrifying effects it may have as a potential weapon for humans...or maybe weeds in his lawn.) Bob still put up with this, albeit reluctantly. On top of this, Zim never thanked or acknowledged his work (of course) accept for quick waves of the hand that were obviously not meaningful (yes yes, good work, you have been an excellent slave yaddayadda-- NOW BACK TO WORK!") and would additionally make fun of Bobby for various reasons, most of which didn't make sense or pertained to his height.

Eventually Bobby had enough of this, and this realization comes all at once. After spending his entire life being belittled for his height and not being able to fight back, Bobby had always been submissive and as a result, was terrified to stand up to Zim, but here he finally realizes that he isn't on the Massive anymore. He was on Earth, which meant that his height no longer applied to his status, and he could finally let his true personality through. As it turns out, all those years of constantly submitting himself has lead to loads of overdue bitterness and resentment, which translates into an anger problem and a complete lack of interest in containing his feelings any longer, even if it just makes sense to tone it down a little. At this point, anything that would even suggest he takes orders from anybody will completely throw him over the edge and he does a 180 on Zim, yelling that he used to respect him but not anymore. This sparks a rivalry that merges right into my head canon world where arguments are plentiful and a very large battle of who has the strongest Napoleon Complex explodes between these two. As someone who often plays the peace-maker card, Skoodge tries his best to dispel arguments when they're within his limit, or at the worst of times, cowers behind the couch when full-on rage explosions occur.

At first these two seem to get into arguments constantly, with Bobby refusing to back off like he had all his life, and Zim being too proud to back off once Bob had started the argument, not to mention Zim's accidental tendency to say demeaning or self-righteous things that would set Bobby off to begin with. These fights don't take long to blossom into full-blown animosity from the two of them, with any time spent together often resulting in boyish fist fights that last about ten seconds each (they are both terrible fighters and kind of a bunch of wimps about it.) Though over time, the arguments transition to just verbal assaults that are almost- ALMOST-- room volume. This is because Zim eventually just tires of arguing (somewhat whipped like Gir has him sometimes) and Bobby eventually loses steam as well and realizes that all his attempts to show off his new-found freedom via yelling isn't getting him anywhere that normal communication would.

If we were to follow down the chain of character and relationship development, Zim is the one who starts acting like Bob and him are buddies, often to Bob's surprise and rejection. This would be by stating casually that they're friends to Dib which he would deny straight out, or by asking if he wanted to do something with him, also ending in Bob rejecting the idea and Zim wondering why. ( I should note, I can see Zim seeing the arguments as a sort of 'male bonding' type practice, where he acts a lot angrier than he is and then brushes off the arguments minutes later while Bobby holds onto it for ages.) Eventually Bobby gives in- something Skoodge is VERY relieved about- and all three of them start hanging out as a single pack of buddies. Bobby never reaches the level of friendship Zim and Skoodge have for each other, he actually acts more like a side character in my head. He is definitely starting to gain traction though, so I figured I should finally get to drawing this guy... cussing up a storm at Zim, the latter being done with this guy and putting up a hand to block the incoming wave of verbal abuse while Skoodge continues to be an adorable failure of a blood-thirsty Irken War-Soldier and stands there scandalized by loud noises and arguments and such.... I love him, he is my pride and joy

I didn't spend tooo much time on this. I think I might have actually spent the same amount of time typing this description novella. I did want to focus on having the height differences accurate. As you can see, Bobby is considerably shorter than Zim (quite a feat) and to think he's actually trying to make himself look taller by standing on his tippy toes here. ....Please ignore the fact that Zim and Skoodge ISN'T accurate in height I mean I tried, since Skoodge is a WEE bit taller than Zim, but his shape is so hard to make tall with his small fat head. Having Zim and Skoodge be the same height is really 'close enough' since they truly are almost the same height. I even have a mental joke going in my head where Skoodge is only a few centimeters taller than Zim, but since height is such an important factor in Irken society, even Zim acknowledges this as a considerable difference in height. This means that Skoodge has the opportunity to make short jokes to Zim He does so playfully, but he generally avoids them since he's so goshdawn sickeningly kind.

ANYWHO, enjoy this little doodle coupled with this ridiculously long explanation of said image