You can only trust someone with your life so many times before it starts feeling dangerously close to love. Someone? Try an entire team. The VALORANT Protocol survives another mission, which means another rooftop afterparty full of adrenaline crashes, expensive liquor, messy situationships, jealousy, unresolved tension, and agents getting far too emotionally attached to the people covering their flank. Inspired by a general girlypop playlist: Stateside, Sticky, Dinero, after-hours energy, complicated feelings, and the terrifying intimacy of surviving together.