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WAIT A MINUTE MY HEADCANON OF ZIM ALWAYS KNOWING ABOUT HIS DEFECTS HAS A LITTLE PLACE IN CANON!

One of the first things Zim does upon having his PAK calibrated is point out the mistakes. 40 shmillion mistakes. 40 shmillion defects right from birth. And he almost immediately tells the downloading robot what they are, almost revealing his defects before he even learned what defects are.

Right from the start Zim knew something was wrong with him, but didn’t know what to call those mistakes until he was properly in the academy for a few days and was told exactly what defects were.

I can barely imagine the horror that a young Zim would feel in that moment. He’s known that there were mistakes in his PAK for the last week or so of his existence, but now he’s being told that those mistakes (that he’s come very close to telling people about) are:

Actually called defects

Are flaws in his BRAIN instead of just errors in his PAK

Turn otherwise flawless irkens into mistakes that actively go against the empire

Must be handed it to the authorities so the defective Irken can be “fixed” (actually deleted, but that fact is kept as an open secret until the Irken is a few years older and more used to it. It also tricks young defectives like Zim that know they they’re defective into handing themselves and those around them in)

#invader zim #Zim #headcanons #also another headcanon that goes with this one:#despite it being said that ‘All Irken knowledge is downloaded into the PAK at birth’#it’s actually just the bare minimum that’s downloaded #a rundown of what an Irken is along with a bunch of Irken ideals and values #a bunch of Irken history (much of which is falsified)#modern knowledge like the current tallest #reading and writing along with full understanding of the Irken language #most elementary to mid high school subjects #that sort of thing #not everything can be downloaded and many things like combat military strategy and how to drive are best taught through experience instead #and there’s also things that are deemed to be too minor to be included in the download (like what defects are and how to report them)#so immediately after the download comes ten years of mandatory schooling where the Irken learns everything that can’t be or isn’t downloaded

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