#but the dish is so widely popular throughout India that I went “nah it’s fine that it’s part of her people’s cuisine they probably picked

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Personal headcanon:

Halsin can’t handle spicy food very well. Yes he did have stomach problems (at first, he was fine after a month) when he lived a year at Jyothika’s village and he would join her family for dinner every night (he was technically a guest of her Amma’s, her Amma asked Halsin to teach some of the villagers, who had Druid magic, and he stayed on for a year to do so)

But he loves sweet food (one of his fav things is honey after all). And he loved all the desserts that her people made

So when he joins the camp and realizes that not only can Jyothika cook now, she can also make all of her people’s desserts (especially Gulab Jamun) you better believe he starts bugging her to make it often

And yes he was a bit of a menace at the tiefling party when Jyothika was making food for everyone (in my headcanon, Jyothika makes all the food for the party because she wants the refugees to have a good meal to celebrate the fact that they survived the goblin camp) and he kept trying to eat the desserts and she had to swat him away before finally roping him and Bhavan (who kept trying to sneak pieces of the grilled meat) into helping her cook

She also gets Gale to help her cook too, since it’s a lot of food for a lot of people and it’s the one time he doesn’t fight with her about cooking

Bhavan meanwhile was on cloud nine the entire time he was eating her food during the party because, as I mentioned before, he’s from the same culture as her. He does not remember his past at this point however which means he does not remember that this is his food culture too. But he recognizes everything, once he tastes it, as something he grew up eating. And after the tenth time of commenting “oh my gosh I know this, I think I grew up eating this” Jyothika is finally like “Bhavi, I think you might be from the same culture as me”

Which is very exciting for her (even if he doesn’t remember) because it’s been ages since she last met anyone from her culture