Intro. When Neon and Fade first started working together on the Valorant protocol, few would have imagined that two such different agents would end up creating something beyond strategies and operations. Neon is movement. Energy that doesn't fit in your own body, quick laughter, steps that always seem a little too accelerated for the world around you. Fade is silence. Note. A presence that seems to emerge from the shadows before anyone even realized she was there. But, curiously, it is precisely in this contrast that they work. Between missions, long nights, and battles that no one outside of protocol would ever understand, they ended up finding something rare: a place where they could simply exist. And some time later, this place won a third heart. The boy they adopted brought something unexpected into that house full of electric light and soft shadows: a reason for two dangerous agents to become, above all... protectors.