Invader Zim x Reader Oneshots/Headcannons (Indefinite Haitus)

'Affection' Zim x Alien reader (Rewritten)

Hurt/comfort Fluff

This was requested by: Anime123miku
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Alien was a word even aliens were unfamiliar with. We stuck these labels made by humanity for things that aren't humanity. Alien was simply a word one called something unusual. But in the universe, everything is so normal and so unusual at the same time. Nothing defines Alien anymore, simply human tongue and etymology. Even anthropology stuck to inhuman creatures. They dubbed them as inhumane for simply being. Being what? Inhuman. Well, a more suitable word would be nonhuman.

You. You are an alien, though all are alien to those not in our heads. You were a sea-dwelling alien, amphibious in nature, though you preferred water. The sea was your home, your planted practically a giant water ball in the universe, only held together by what little gravity you have.

Big eyes, sharp and all the more sweet, just enough to see in the dark depths of your home. All of you is covered in scales, a gorgeous color that grew to be your favorite. The shimmer of your scales is one you took for granted. The spined fins growing from your back and webbed hands were fun to play with or swat at when they first grew in as a child. Oh, the memories. How you missed home. Your tail was your favorite part of you, able to swim through your days, enjoying being so free... the freeing feeling of the water on your skin, the plants hitting your face as you dove through underwater forests, and the adrenaline coursing through you. That freedom so quickly stripped of you. All once you ran away.

The day your pod crashed to Earth and landed in some lowly lake was the loneliest of all. You spent your time sitting at it's edge, surrounded by the flora and fauna of this strange new world, all so terrifying and able to hurt you. Nothing was familiar, all except the water. But you wouldn't dare go near it, for fear of what may lie beneath. You were utterly terrified of the water, the very thing that gave you life, breathed into you, held you so lovingly in its warm embrace when others wouldn't, you were terrified of it.

There you sat, huddled in on yourself, right at the lake's edge as you felt your scales dry up and fall to the ground, only some vital to your life staying on you. "I'm so sorry..." you sob, feeling the searing pain of the very identity of who you were being stripped away from you bu this feeble planet to assimilate you to itself. So goes the way of humans.

"I can feel this body dying around me...." sad how it's your body. Well, it's not dying. Not fast, anyways. But compared to the thousands of years your people lived, forced to take on the form of something less, may as well become a human. The tears you cried were the only semblance of who you were that clung in and to your skin. You needed water so you didn't die.

After what seemed like thousands of years lamenting your 'humanity', you stand and see your tail is legs. The horrors of having a body that seems nothing like your own. You were dressed in what you swam in. Though clothes only slow you down in the ocean, you'd worn some type of fabric you adored from your home in the style you liked.

Wandering aimlessly through the forest, you try to desperately find help. The thought of asking for help from such merciless beings as humans left a bad taste in your mouth, vomit would taste better.

You stumble about the town, almost getting hurt several times by the locals. The terror was setting in your hollow bones, it was so new and scary. You loved adventure, but this was too much for you. You hold your shoulders, holding yourself together physically to do it mentally.

Then, you spot it, a big building. You'd heard from other aliens that this was a 'school'. But it was spelled weirdly. You'd heard humans enrolled here to learn. You could learn about the things around here. You'd get a home, or something similar.

After a day or so of preparing for this school thing, you'd gotten what you needed. You already looked like a human, after all. Just some clothes and a backpack and you were set to be 'human'. But that would never be better than who you truly were.

You walk to the front of the classroom, hands clasped together and not knowing what to do. You wait until prompted to say your name. "Hello. I am Reader Last Name(s)."

Then, you scurry to your seat, scared of everything. One boy notices this, his gaze suspicious and penetrative. He'd dissecting you with his eyes. There's another boy. You recognize his species as Irken. He was here to conquer Earth. A crippling dread settled in your gut, but was soon extinguished with how ridiculous he was being, twirling a pencil and dropping it, throwing things at the observant boy, and overall seeming so un-Irken. It was odd.

Your guard was down and you even sat through the terrible lecture from the teacher. Zim doesn't seem to notice you until lunch time. Your closed-off, meek appearance juxtaposing the stature your height conveys to him. He gravitates toward you, sitting next to you at lunch.

"Hello, worthless human worm-baby," Zim greets you, "you seem less worthless than the rest, at least by a small margin, as opposed to my greatness, I, Zim!" he shouts. You cover your ears, them being sensitive from how you lived previously.

"Um, hi, Zim," you greet in a smaller tone than you were. Really, you were brash and rambunctious, but right now, you couldn't afford to be yourself in a place that didn't want you and would punish you for being yourself. "I'm Reader. Thank you, I think," you chuckle under your breath.

It seems your behavior is an overlooked trait by Zim as he simply stares at you a moment before going on about studies. One word catches your attention, 'touch'. You thought Irkens touched nobody. Or at least avoided it at all costs.

"Zim, can you repeat what you mean?" you inquire, wishing to know you heard that right, which you did. 

Oh no.

All you could say was,"It's a skin condition dude."

"Alright both of you shut up, take your seat, and if I hear a peep out of you, you're going to the underground classroom." 'Mrs. Bitters' had said, which was what you thought her name was based on the nameplate.

Slowly sitting down next to this green kid covered head to toe in black and pink. He looked at you suspiciously, but when you locked eyes, he sat up straight and faced forward. 'Strange' They thought.

𝓣𝓲𝓶𝓮𝓼𝓴𝓲𝓹

They walked to their home that they had recently purchased and whatnot. It was close to this one weird looking house. It had a green exterior and a purple roof. Odd. There were also these really stupid looking gnomes outside the house and an 'I ♥️ Earth' flag.

They sighed as they looked down and made their way to their house.

They hear a shout of their name, 'READER, I DEMAND YOU SEE THE ALMIGHTY ZIIIIMMM' alright, guess you have plans now, cool. This guys had jet black hair and a smaller shark fin hair cut, with purple eyes, which made you wonder why you didn't notice this earlier.

Coming over, you said hi and asked him what he needed, towering over him in the process, making him look a bit frightened and somewhat flustered. He coughed and not-so-politely a̶s̶k̶e̶d̶ told you to come inside and something about being honored or whatever.

You had never seen a house on the INSIDE since all you'd seen was the outside looking over the coast line. Walking in you looked around. Lots of purple. Why? You took a seat as he instructed and he sat next to you.

Awkward silence. Oof.

Looking over (Reader) asked how his day was. He shot them a confused look before quickly replying with a, "My day...? That's an odd question, it was alright though." You nodded and smiled at him. This was nice but you questioned why he would think it was weird,. He simply responded by saying,"Where I'm from, we don't ask about, 'feelings', it is all about logic. But after my leaders abandoned me, I... I don't know what's right." He said muttering the last part. He physically deflated, seemingly reliving a horrid memory.

In an attempt to comfort him, you placed your hand on his head and slowly pat his head, but as you did so, the wig came off. Out of shock, Zim shook. "Just take it off, no use in hiding it." You slowly took off the contacts as well and looked at his head, the wig being replaced by antennae. You pat his head and held him as he cried into your arms.

You could see now. He had nobody except for the green dog thing which finally showed up, seemingly out of nowhere, as well as that floating moose.

You looked at him and just sat there,holding him and telling him it would be alright.

You soon laid back and let him rest on your chest as you held him, cuddling him on the couch. He soon calmed down and looked up at you, and muttered,

'Is this what humans call affection?'

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