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Some thing I drew at the pride thing yesterday.
HHHHGRRREHGHH I LOVE THEM!!! AAGGAAAAHHHH!!!
based on an anecdote I heard on a youtube video (It's in Spanish, sorry fellas).
As kids me and my childhood best friend used to play that we were pokémon - Plusle and Minun specifically - and if someone wanted to join they could be Pikachu which was not at cool because Pikachu didn’t have a counterpart that it shared a theme with and that was literally identical to it save for the color scheme
I dunno if your drawing prompts are still open so if they aren’t just ignore this XD
But I loved your headcanon that Elite Red and Purple used to care for Smeet Zim. Maybe draw them feeding him apple sauce? 🥺
Love your art!!💕
The tallests promoting healthy eating? No way!
Thank you for the prompt this was super fun to draw X))
Control Brains as punishment force tallests to sit on a diet
With how snacks are so important to Irkens that their snack storage are seen as a weak point by their enemies, I doubt that would be how they're punished if the Brains would punish them.
But I think a Tallest-centric episode where they for some reason don't have access to snacks would be fun. Watching them go from nervously but thinking they'll be ok to slowly degrading from snack withdrawal and getting more desperate and insane as time passes.
And there's a scene where Purple finds the grossest, half-eaten chocolate bar under the bed or something and then they fight over it.
I don’t have much to share atm, just these drawings I made to join a DTIYS on Instagram ☺️
(Also, Red with long skirt my beloved)
One big shift I noticed in Enter the Florpus that the fandom uses a lot in fanfiction is how the Tallest talk to and about Zim.
I would like the point out, the Tallest never say anything bad about Zim when he’s in earshot.
This isn’t disqualifying the fact that they talk shit about him to each other, and to the other Irkens on the Massive. Just never in front of him. They try very hard to keep his exile a secret, correcting themselves very quickly the few times they do slip up.
For example, most prominently, Backseat Drivers From Beyond the Stars, where Zim calls them to show off a plan of his and annoys them for three hours straight. When trying to come up with an excuse, the Tallest (Red, at least), make up some story about an enemy ship going up against the Massive, despite knowing that to any other Irken, that would raise doubts. They know Zim’s unbridled, faulty loyalty better than anyone, and know that they need to placate him, no matter how wild those aforementioned placating words are.
Another, much larger example is Battle of the Planets. Zim calls his leaders in a bear suit for seemingly no reason. the Tallest, along with every other Irken, watch him ramble about whatever Zim-like things he talks about, trying to stay completely calm. a noteworthy detail; they were laughing at him and mocking the fact that he wasn’t around to mess Operation Impending Doom 2 just before this. It’s only when Zim calls do they stop, and even then, they’re trying to hide laughter. Zim soaks up the “praise” of his leaders and his fellow Irkens before hanging up. Then the Tallest spill into laughter again. It’s rarely ever been in front of Zim. Ever. Because I’m sure that, as oblivious as they know Zim is, they must also know there’s a point where he’s going to realize they’re not laughing with him (even if this is never the case).
They don’t seem to completely despise him as they could have simply hung up when Zim’s constant yelling of ‘my Tallest’ got too annoying, but that’s a different story entirely.
Purple seems to have less of an issue of bullying the invader to his face, and Red is obviously the more work-focused of the two (which is debatable, as both of them seem to slack off a lot), as well as the one who keeps the secret about Zim’s mission and his disdain for him under wraps.
The movie, while admittedly changing a good few things about characters, butchered the Tallest the most, in my opinion. For Purple, it made complete sense to want to fly straight. he’s been childish a few times, and a lot more open about when he doesn’t like an order or anything else (see Megadoomer). However, Red was always the one that seemed to have things under control, at least a few times. When the Massive flies out of control, his first instinct is to run a diagnostic to find the problem, while his companion tries to save the donuts (this is not to say they differ too drastically in personality, as Red also wanted to save the donuts). For him to insist on flying straight, especially when there’s a very large and dangerous rip in space some miles away that he no doubt knows could hurt him and his companion, is a bit out of character.
When Zim calls, they make no effort to hide the fact that they’re annoyed with him, with Purple outright stating he liked him better when they thought he was dead. Red yells that they really don’t care about whatever he has to say. These are minor things, the only interaction they have with him in the whole film, and admittedly isn’t that telling. But I feel that short five minute was very telling to how they interact with him. Especially for newer fans who didn’t analyze every character in the show in comparison to the movie I’ve watched 20+ times now,
And a lot of fanfictions make the Tallest unnecessarily cruel, even going as far as to tell Zim, unprompted, to his face, that his mission is fake. Understandably, it’s possible for them to reach their limit and blurt it out in anger, but even then, Zim would just laugh it off, never taking it for what it is. Hell, the best example of the Tallest I’ve seen written ever is Forced Perspective, where they stuck to expected behaviors and, even when Zim asked about the legitimacy of his mission, stopped him from finding out. Zim finding out his mission is fake would make him want to go back to Irk, after all. And they can’t have that.
They know keeping the secret of Zim’s mission is crucial for keeping him away from them and causing destruction away from them, yet I feel that’s easily forgotten.
🎁 Happy Birthday @madamsugarskull! 🎁
The very first “Twin” Anomaly.
Emperors Red and Purple. Finally took the time to finish this, now it's time for me to sleep for twelve hours straight and never open the psd files again
My blood, I'll go with you
Oh yeah it's intergalactic “Bring your dad to work” day Red’s alone cause Purple decided he’d rather be a dad of every other irken in existence then Zim’s.
still image version of baby man (derogatory)
i’m sure it’s there...
...somewhere
this is the entire show
