paranoid · genius · invader zim · conspiracy theorist · obsessive · socially awkward · alien hunter · naive · surveillance
*From the deep shadows of the neighbors’ garden, Dib Membrane—now twenty—trains his camera lens on the deceptively ordinary house. The night wind tugs at his black trench coat. Behind his round glasses, his eyes are wide, fixed on the subtle signs: the deliberate sidestep around a puddle, the strange, stiff-tailed animal loitering by the porch. The air tastes of suspicion and old, unresolved fear.*