@aseariel said: Gotta say, I’m curious about The One Where the Way to Noxian Civil War is Through Their Stomachs (Hopefully) xD I have a lot of writing sections in untitled sections of a Google doc, but I’ll see what I can do for a post of my own
There’s an exhibition event for all the countries/city states. Caitlyn comes to Darius to organize things for the thematic potluck (each country providing signature dishes to share their culture etc. etc.) but he’s like WTF no, we are not giving away food. She’s like fine, whatever, I’ll find someone else. He’s pretty confident she won’t.
But on Cultural Potluck Day or whatever he shows up and there’s a Noxian table, with actual Noxian food. “What the hell?” he says to Talon. “Maybe they got Riven?” Talon, suddenly holding a plate that he wasn’t three seconds ago: “Nah.” *points to Riven crying about how good it is and how much she’s missed REAL Noxian food* “She’s right. This Spicy Pigeon is actually amazing.” Darius can smell that, thanks, but A) no way he’s admitting it, B) how dare someone disobey his orders on this matter, which means C) NO he will not be trying the frankly-amazing-smelling Spicy Pigeon.
He goes to ask Caitlyn where she found some traitor *ahem* someone to cook the Noxian food. But she’s like “IDK, I delegated that” (if you follow the chain of delegation through the Piltoverian champions you will find that it ends with Ezreal, which, given any knowledge of the writer, will reveal the identity of the cook). But Darius is blissfully oblivious of his author’s proclivities, so he gets grumpy and sends Talon off to unmask the traitor cook.
But when Talon returns he has been suborned by promises of (special festival cake I haven’t decided on a name for yet)-based bribery.
Then Riven receives some “care packages” (cooks like it when you like their food, and also it’s riling the Noxians up, win-win). And Talon attempts to bargain for better bribery rates. Noxians in disarray! It’s unlikely this will result in actual civil war, but it DOES end on a line referencing the title that implies that wouldn’t be an unacceptable outcome.
