Here I go, wildly headcanoning again.

revenblue:

So, I was browsing through Dan’s twitter for reasons, and found some… inconsistencies with claimed lore.

“Perry gave Doof his card the very first time they fought.” (November 2012)

“Perry has a business card.” (February 2013)

“When Perry was assigned to Doofenshmirtz, he was sent an email of introduction by OWCA.” (February 2017)

And I was talking about this with @teal-and-fedoras​, who was like “why not both?” (paraphased).

So, combining it with the “Heinz wrote Perry’s theme song” headcanon… Here’s my new headcanon.

OWCA approached Heinz to write a theme song for their best agent, before he became evil. And, OWCA being OWCA, they insisted on calling him “Agent P”. I have Opinions on how OWCA treats their agents but never mind that.

Heinz being Heinz, he was like “but what’s his name?”, so they told him, and he worked that into the theme song instead. That’s why you get the Monogram going

“but you can call him Agent P” bits in the short version, because that’s the name OWCA uses for him.

Skip ahead to when Heinz is evil, gets assigned a nemesis, said nemesis is introduced to him (via both email and business card) as “Agent P”, and internally he’s like “didn’t I write a theme song for an Agent P this one time? his name must be Perry!” and he starts calling Perry “Perry the Platypus” because it’s only fair right?

And Perry’s just like “oh well, it’s not hurting anyone, why go through the effort to get him to stop?” and so it becomes a Thing. He’s forever “Perry the Platypus” to Heinz. It becomes familiar after a while, and then eventually he gets new business cards (with fancy robot legs) that declare him Fearless and these have “Perry the Platypus” emblazoned upon them.

I may have thought a bit too much about this.