#shadowire

[yourstrulynameless]

When you said we shared a lot of the same hc and saw cyphmen in the same way I was giddy

Reading this is like damn. I swear I’ve written this essay before. This is exactly how I see them bar for bar, holy

17 out of 10 bestie, fire shit

Cyphmen is exceptional because its about dead men, literally and figuratively

its about people who are starting over, ppl who left too much behind, ppl who can never go back to who they once were, its about moving on, its about loss, its about being nobody, its about mattering to someone else

[yourstrulynameless]

-See No Evil-

Cyphmen//Shadowire

[cypher05]

so about that eclipse. huh.

[cleavetheclover]

One of the reasons i ship cyphmen is that i think cypher has a lot of empathy for omen in a place where most of the other agents can only really show sympathy

Starting out, omen knew nothing about who he was and where he came from and how he even came to be in the first place, so that’s what he becomes— nothing. Just a lingering shadow a few steps behind Viper at all times.

I think it would just get to him a lot of the time, namely in the forms of frustration and grief

And i think cypher would understand that.

The cypher i hold in my head is one who lost everything just before he came to Valorant. He came there because nowhere else is safe. He thought of himself as Prometheus but in reality was an Icarus, who reached the height of his power before having it all collapse beneath him.

(Of course Cypher never admits this aloud to Omen, at least not in the beginning of their friendship, because that would mean admitting that his presence in Valorant is a defensive move and that he’s vulnerable.)

Either way, Cypher knows what its like to be no one and have nothing to live for and nowhere else to go. The only difference is that where Omen doesn’t know about his past, Cypher does know about his own, and yet in the end neither of them can return to their pasts.

They’re both trying to rebuild themselves. A new name, a new face, new presence— they are trying to live past the respective messes they began with when they joined Valorant on day one.

Their stories intertwine and sort of rhyme in this way, and i find that beautiful

[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.

[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"""

[ashitamoainiiku]

just wanted to draw omen in a crop top <3

[jugemusequencer]

cosmetic boyfriend

[viktormaru]

theyre smooching like kitties

[yourstrulynameless]

@cleavetheclover

Ask and you shall receive

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[cypher05]

looking for valorant roleplay duo? :]

errr im very new to this so bear with me!! :,] looking for a roleplay partner!!!! im pretty much up for anything, i just need my valorant enrichment....... i'd prefer something cyphmen/shadowwire related (platonic or romantic) but. genuinely i will take anything ever ultimately i dont really care the who/what/where, so if you want to roleplay just. anything valorant related shoot me a message and we'll figure it out!!!!

yippeeeeee :]

[prometheuslands]

oopsie daisy forgot to post this again :3

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

[cleavetheclover]

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

[lemonouiiid]

i forgot tumblr exists