#shadowire

[viktormaru]

theyre smooching like kitties

[cypher05]

so about that eclipse. huh.

[crappwr0m]

Post mission bonus

[notaspectator]

idea: Omen copies people and tries to imitate people he likes. at first, it'd be hard to tell. but he's picked up on Viper's speech, and from time to time (...as funny as all the other agents find it) he'll repeat what brimstone has said to him. little speech things. but it becomes more obvious when it comes to behaviors. like, how if someone talks to him but does the "talking with hands" thing, he'll try to copy it. except he doesn't speak, because he doesn't understand the two things are connected. it becomes an uncanny imitation that reminds everyone else that Omen is not like them, and Omen cant understand what he's doing wrong. He's doing what he's seen others do, so why do they find it so strange when he does it? When people breath in a certain, noticable way, Omen pretends he's breathing the same way. It takes time for anyone to notice, but Omen does copy it and never understands why it unnerves the others. and say, when they're on a multiple day mission, he'll copy how people prepare to sleep. because he doesn't understand, and he just wants to pretend that he is like them, even if it means laying there for hours in silence because everyone sleeps, except for him, so that must mean that sleeping is a trait of living things. now, this also comes around a LOT with specific agents. like cypher. since Cypher y'know has a mask with eyes that pretend to blink, i like to imagine he also is very expressive with his body language to make up for the fact he has a mask. and Omen would copy the way Cypher likes to tilt his head, or the eccentric way Cypher waves his hands about. Cypher finds it interesting, and would often subtly do unique things such as a certain gesture or a walking to a certain pattern just so that he could see Omen imitate it later, either with him or elsewhere. The only time these little imitations seem *real* and *lifelike* is when Omen isn't trying to do them. Like how Omen will often imitate breathing just on his own, or the way he likes to keep a hand on the wall as he walks by because it is grounding and he likes to know where he is relative to the walls around him, or how he leans toward things he finds interesting so that he can focus better and hear them clearer. Omen doesn't realize that he is trying to put together a collage of everyone's unique traits in a desperate bid to make himself seem human- he doesn't realize that the little things HE does are what make him seem alive. that those little things are proof that he is not just going through the motions and making a fake personality from bits and pieces of everyone else, because he has his own thoughts, opinions, and little quirks that no one else shares. Omen really hasn't existed very long, has he? and yet, he's already killed countless people. from copies of friends, to copies of himself. how could that not fuck somebody up? he went through unimaginable pain, and cannot even hold himself together on a bad day (quite literally), and has looked himself dead in the eye and shot a replica of himself dead. When he has only known the VALORANT protocol- has only known Viper, who isn't known for her empathy- how could he have ever figured out what makes people human? where would he have managed to come up with the idea that his emotions are his own? where does that leave time to realize that he does not have to desperately copy people so that he can be SOMEONE? or really, so he can pretend that he is alive, in some compacity? and I love the idea that Cypher, who struggled with the same problems, sees Omen struggling and he helps him. Cypher is all too familiar with thinking he is not like the others, and has already grappled with the idea that something about him is wrong. and maybe he isn't quite over that idea, yet. maybe he's just pretending he is, but he'll TRY so that he can help Omen, because he just cant let Omen struggle with those thoughts alone. and Omen realizes, that even if he might not be human nor technically alive, that it is okay because Cypher loves him either way, and thats enough for Omen to want to keep going.

[cleavetheclover]

it’s cold on icebox and that’s best remedied with cuddles :)

[spilycoris]

i was taken over by the urge to draw some peekaboo so. that's what i did. i drew peekaboo.

[khaosssss]

I think about that one time my friend (who isn't into Valorant) referred to shadowire as """mysterious yaoi"""

[bekkomi]

Shopping for the cat

[jugemusequencer]

cosmetic boyfriend

[ashitamoainiiku]

just wanted to draw omen in a crop top <3

[lemonouiiid]

i forgot tumblr exists

[viktormaru]

Would you like to flip a coin for it?

[prometheuslands]

oopsie daisy forgot to post this again :3

Please tell me you guys know where this sound is from...

[nomiyakazehaya]

was digging through my art folder and found a super old shadowire art i never quite finished 😭

[notaspectator]

valorant hc's part 3: While Cypher doesn't really like to think about how everyone knows that he has a dead wife named Nora, everyone absolutely does because Cypher come back screaming for her every time he is revived. No one mentions her, of course, but whenever Cypher mentions that he wants to take a trip to Morocco, no one *ever* stops him and Brimstone will usually call off upcoming missions with Cypher in them if Cypher seems particularly incessant about seeing her. Cypher does not abuse this privilege because he is afraid of losing it. Cypher cant stand to be alone in a room with Fade. His name isn't the biggest secret of the VALORANT protocol, but he still gets uneasy and feels threatened by Fade. He hates the idea that Fade was able to find him, and he cant get over thinking how that means that someone from his past could have theoretically found him. Fade has assured Cypher that his face is still a secret. Cypher isn't really as religious as he used to be. killing people kind of did that train in. its not that he doesn't believe in it, but that he's pretty certain that when he dies, he's not going anywhere good and so he shouldn't get his hopes up. Besides, missions seem too taxing to follow a majority of Muslim rules (how can you fast for a month when you're dying biweekly? at some point, Sage simply won't allow it.) He does try, sometimes, though. Omen often repeats the variety of names Fade suggested might be his. Often, on a bad night, he'll say those names again and again until he is so sick of repeating them and getting no closer to figuring out which may be his. Omen often disappears from the facility for days at a time. This is most typically following a resurrection, but he leaves at random, too. he doesn't go anywhere specific, but he gets as far away from the base as he can and is usually untraceable until he finally sends a signal to them so he can go home. Most of the agents have stopped asking about it because Omen always shrugs and says he doesn't remember. He runs away because he feels pressured to fight and keep fighting, and sometimes he just cant take it and doesn't see another nonviolent way to escape. He doesn't want to leave for good, though. on the topic of resurrection: resurrection is PAINFUL. Agents always come back gasping and scared. some cry out names of people they knew and loved, some cry for other agents, and some think they're still on the battlefield and fighting for their life. Most agents calm down after Sage reassures them. Cypher, Viper, and Omen are some of the exceptions. Cypher often shuts down and doesn't speak for even days at a time, while Viper and Omen come back kicking and thrashing and blindly trying to hurt whoever is near them. Sage is the best at chess out of all the agents. Cypher is the only one who's beaten her. Most of the agents don't know Sage is better at chess because Sage doesn't play out of respect for the egos of the others. Cypher loves to see how the others play. Omen is the second best at chess, though thats mostly because he learned from Cypher and Cypher taught him how to play against Cypher's moves. Omen struggles a lot more against everyone except Cypher, but no one plays against Omen often because Omen gets a specific murderous vibe to him when he's losing that scares the others.

[cleavetheclover]

Omentober 4

Cyphmen but it’s Barbie