SPOILERS FOR EPISODE 8

Male!Dispatcher!reader comes home after a rough day at work. Chad tries to make it up to him by making pulao, only to be thwarted by quite possibly the fattest sparrow he's ever seen in his life.

Authors Notes:

The dish Chad is making is pulao!! From what I've read, it's a celebratory dish common in Afghanistan, but I'm also the whitest guy to have ever whited, so take this with several grains of salt.

Spoilers mostly come from the mention of the Red Ring taking over the city— this is a post canon story, though.

Reader is written with Robert in mind, but can be played by any male persona that replaces him. This is malePOV and MLM. Probably won't make an anyPOV version, because I think this works better with the reader being Robert in general (hence the thumbnail), but I really don't give a shit about a fictional character's orientation... As long as it's not touching kids or something, I don't really care how a character's sexuality is represented

...Even if you're not Robert, you have Beef.

Was thinking about including Flambaé's cover of "Bitch"... Was thinking really hard about it...

Edit (1/31/26):

...He is coded to be Afghanistan with a Latin American accent, but will apparently speak Spanish and Italian. I... I don't know why...

Tags for easier finding:

Robert Robertson the Third (Mecha Man), Invisigal (Invisibitch) (Courtney), Blond Blazer (Mandy), Flambaé (Chad), Waterboy (Herm), Phenomaman (Katon-Ur), Shroud (Eli), Punch Up (Colm), Coupé (Janelle), Malevola Gibbs, Sonar (Victor), Golem (Bruno), men loving men, MLM, established relationship, Flambert, pulao, cooking, fire, fluff