I Made A Whole Headcanon About Mission Commands In This By Accident - Tumblr Posts

okay I just had a thought that will keep me awake with how cool it is so I'm sharing it

Dark and Second are like polaropposites, but also have a lot of parallels. So what if, if you look deep enough into Seconds code you'll find a mission command that simply says [PROTECT] it doesn't specify what or who, so it would be the first living things Second meets. Their friends.

Thats why they are so worried about them constantly.

Thats why they get that sense of dread and light understanding of the danger happening in the sky block episode in AvM

That's why their powers awakened

Because they have to protect. Like how Dark has to destroy. I imagine it's like a compulsive need that drives them every day and leads their thoughts on needs and wants. They need and want to keep their friends safe, so they have to at all costs.

But Dark has the need to destroy and the want to be friends with Chosen. Those two things conflict and cause him to build ViraBots to destroy for him. Then he can focus his want. But when Chosen says no to the idea of the ViraBots and attacks him, his need takes over. His need to destroy Chosen.

(while writing this I fleshed it out even more in my head so it's a full headcanon now and feel free to ask about it cause I accidentally made it really complicated, whoops!)