[Scene: Fontaine palace kitchen. Aether stirs something suspicious in a pot. Escoffier watches, arms folded, clearly unimpressed. The smell is… questionable.]

Aether: There! I made pagpag! It’s kind of a street survival food. Taught myself after a tough journey—

Furina: enters, halts with a hand over her mouth
A-Aether... I don’t think that pagpag dish looks appetising.

Inner Furina: ESCOFFIER PLEASE HELP!!

Escoffier: steps forward, absolutely livid
Mon dieu, what culinary crime have you committed in my kitchen?! Pagpag?! This is not a wasteland, garçon—this is Fontaine! No Frenchman, no citizen of culture, would touch that with a fork! We are not here for cultural enrichment, we are here to cook!

Aether: startled, hands up in surrender
I-I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to disrespect the kitchen… or anyone here! I promise—I'll never serve pagpag to Furina ever again!

Furina: regaining composure, arms crossed
See that you don’t. This is a palace, not a slum!

[Later — Neuvillette’s chambers. Escoffier speaks with quiet fury.]

Escoffier: He served Her Eminence pagpag. Scraps, reheated! A dish of ruin, not refinement.

Neuvillette: coldly Then justice must be served.

[Exterior. Rain falls as Aether stands near a carriage.]

Neuvillette: Aether, by the laws of this land and the dignity of our nation, you are to be deported from Fontaine.

Aether: sighing I didn’t think food could get me banished…

Paimon: [teary-eyed] I.. I’ll stay in Fontaine... someone has to make sure no one eats anything worse!

So is the era of archons over? Are shades the new big thing? What comes after them?
Reminder: Snezhnaya is in 7.X and yet HI3 part 1 ended around their own 7.X versions
This means all these 5 years in Genshin have been utter filler kek