Zim might be one of the smartest Irkens alive:
In the comics, an Irken Engineer named Skrang built this thing:
It’s a prototype wormhole generator, giving the Tallest the ability to teleport anything to the base of any Invader, heavily implied to be the first of its kind.
Skrang had help doing this. He wears a specialized backpack filled with dozens of harvested Vortian brains, which presumably gives him a boost of intelligence. It’s a literal think tank.
Now it’s pretty safe to assume that Skrang either invented the wormhole generator on his own or at least played a massive part in doing so, as he wouldn’t need the extra brainpower if he was following a blueprint made by someone else.
Irkens are extremely intelligent on their own, especially when it comes to machines and mechanical devices. Vortians are also extremely smart, being tied with Irkens for the rank of “smartest known species in the Galaxy”. Now take that information and think about how complicated that wormhole generator must be.
It took an irken artificially increasing their intelligence with dozens of Vortian brains to make a one-way prototype. It took two of the smartest species in the Galaxy mixing several of their brains together to make this thing. (Minor headcanon: the only reason that Vortian brains are being used in the Irken Think Tank instead of Irken brains is because Vortian brains are easily acquired now that the Empire has captured Vort, while harvesting an Irken brain means killing a perfectly good Irken).
Point is, this wormhole generator is extremely advanced, possibly more advanced than anything else in the entire galaxy, and it took harvesting the brains of dozens of the galaxy’s smartest creatures and connecting them to another one of the Galaxy’s smartest creatures to figure out how to build it. And even then they still don’t know how to make it two-way.
Then the Tallest use it to send a piece of garbage to Zim and within minutes, this happens:
Within minutes of receiving the trash, Zim figured out how to trace its origin back to the Massive. This wormhole generator is the first of its kind and Zim managed to easily trace it back to the massive. NO ONE besides the Tallest and Engineer Skrang have seen this thing, and only Skrang knows how it works, but Zim still managed to figure out exactly what it was and trace it back to the Massive.
That’s not really saying much on its own, as the wormhole most likely gave off a unique energy signal that Zim could track, but it’s important for this next thing.
At the end of the comic, Zim does this:
Zim reverse engineered the wormhole generator.
Alright, alright, WAIT WHAT!?
ZIM BUILT HIS OWN IDENTICAL WORMHOLE GENERATOR!? THE THING THAT’S SO COMPLICATED AND ADVANCED THAT SKRANG HAD TO ATTACH A TANK FULL OF VORTIAN BRAINS TO HIMSELF JUST TO MAKE HIMSELF SMART ENOUGH TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO BUILD ONE?!
And it gets even more impressive when you realize that Zim has NEVER SEEN the wormhole generator before. All he has to go off in terms of building one is that single energy signature that he used to trace the wormhole back to the Massive.
All he had in terms of blueprints was a single reading showing the energy signal that the wormhole gives off. That’s like trying to build a bomb by using the crater of another bomb as your only blueprint.
He built that thing from SCRATCH. With NO blueprint and a completely unmodified brain. Zim doesn’t have a tank full of Vortian brains attached to his back, and he didn’t need one to build a super complex wormhole generator.
And that’s before you consider that it probably took weeks, possibly even months for Engineer Skrang to go from his original concept to the working prototype that we see. Meanwhile, judging by how Zim believed that he was in serious danger and was trying to build his wormhole generator as quickly as he possibly could because of that, I’d say that it took him no more than an hour to build his wormhole generator, maybe two hours if we’re being generous.
In other words, Zim’s brain on its own was able to do in an hour what an artificially enhanced Irken brain took MONTHS to do.
And despite that, Zim still has no common sense. He really does have a 20 in Intelligence and a 3 in Wisdom.
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do you think the abyss healed Childe’s scars?
realistically I know it’s stupid graphics & model “limitations”
But do you think his skin looks as normal as it did before he fell.
Cause when they’re hit, an abyss monster.
They disintegrate.
Do you think Ajax’s scars healed like that? In the abyss? After it, too?
Do you think they burned? Or was it numb, as the darkened skin faded away with little, yellow, glowing particles?
That he has no evidence of his suffering for those three months in hell (and his only companion’s silence) but dull eyes no one wants to look at?
Callouses on his hands and feet that no one pays attention to? Takes care of?
That he shows his prowess and uncanniness and abyssal hunger because that’s the only way how? Yes. he is hungry and wants a fight. Look at him. He’s off. Broken now.
Look at him.
Please.
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