oh?? agent 8 as cypher's protege? and he's dead?? mm sounds so angsty do you have more hcs about that 👀
I didn’t, but since you asked I may share my thoughts on him. This one is a bit sad, and has blood on it. Also death and pain.
I believe that Agent 08 could have been a sentinel and one of the youngest in the protocol at the time.
He cannot be mentioned for security reasons and for protection of the agents involved.
We know that Sage's powers are very strong today, but everything has its limits. Resurrection causes an imbalance in the Universe and it can only be used as a last resort. So, maybe 08 shouldn’t have been revived.
I put him as Cypher's protégé because I honestly think that for the time Agent 08 arrived it would be the most suitable, since Sova would have recently arrived and so did Sage. Omen would still be getting used to his body and Brimstone would already have Killjoy as contact. (Viper would postpone this "mission" until she couldn't so the only option was the sentinel).
Agent 08 lost a lot of blood on a mission, Cypher was with him and thought he would have time to disarm the Spike and return to kill the missing enemy. It was the other Sova ( and we all know how dangerous it is to have a Sova as the last one standing).
Cypher didn't stop when he heard the first shot, nor the second, and the third came too late: Spike Defused. But when he turned to his colleague, he was surprised to see him breathing heavily. Blood dripped down his forehead and for a moment, a chill went up the sentinel's back. The other Sova didn’t stay, just did the damage and left before the reinforcements arrived, before Sage could at least stop the blood from leaving. You could feel the boy's life draining away, he held him until Brim arrived with the monk.
The older man apologized, Agent 08 tried to mumble something in return but the pain prevented him.
One of the rules of resurrection is that it must be done with the person definitely dead and in a short postmortem period. They waited to reach headquarters, and Sage performed the resurrection. Only the boy had not died, he had not yet taken his last breath.
His eyes have been empty since then, Agent 08 wasn’t the same person, there were no expressions on his face and he claimed to feel nothing, neither pleasure nor pain.
Viper examined him, his wounds didn’t heal and the hole in his forehead started to deteriorate. It was the only sign of decay there was, all his organs were functioning normally. He spoke, trained, ate and slept, but he seemed to be without his soul.
Over time he started to forget some things, became more violent and stronger.
Cypher was the only one who managed to calm the other down, so when he took the younger man away from headquarters on a mission two months later, of course, everything seemed normal. They talked the whole time, about memories that the younger sentinel pretended to remember. Things were foggy in his head, but he knew one thing when they arrived : Viper shouldn't be at the mission site, nor Sage and Omen.
The expression still haunts Cypher's mind. It felt like a betrayal, when they finally got there, after two months, he saw for the last time a genuine expression in the boy's eyes. Pain, hurt and resentment were the last feelings he expressed.
Sage cried and looked away, she was there to make sure Agent 08 was really gone. Omen had the same job. But Cypher and Viper were left with the hard work of executioners. He would hold the boy and repeat, "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I failed to protect you."
The poison took effect in seconds, but the sentinel and the controller stayed until the acids took effect, like an impromptu funeral.
“Bodies decompose after twelve hours in acid.”
There’s no reason why both Cypher and Viper know this.
