chilliad: deleted scenes

they make it too long but *i* know they're canon.

hey pals!! enjoy some little vignettes that have been cut but which i know to be true, in my heart if not in the text.

paris - the origins of Discord

The Christmas before Paris transferred, he sat his brother down in front of the old desktop computer that their mom used mostly for playing online Scrabble with strangers and talked Hector through setting up a rewards system in the form of collectible “coins” for a Formula 1 Discord server Hector was responsible for moderating now that Priam was graduating.

Paris really did like F1, actually, but as far as he could tell, Hector only liked F1 the way that Hector liked most things, which was to say vaguely and with an attitude that suggested it was an inconvenience to him.

This single Discord moderation tutorial would somehow prove to be a key decision of Paris’s life, because at some point between June and December, when Red Bull took the Constructor’s Cup and user A.Res12 was crowned Racing King, people at Hector’s college got really weird about it.

Like, really weird.

Literally nobody seemed to even care about the racing or betting. But the server’s leaderboard had become, for reasons beyond understanding, a vital part of the school’s social hierarchy, and Paris — who had, if he was honest, completely stolen the entire system from a wool spinning website run by the drummer of his dad’s band — was its god.