#I started writing fics at all because of the psy-op that happened with my og Sweet Pea stan people

[riverdale-retread]

favourite minor riverdale character and why

Sweet Pea. Mr N.M. What is N.M. RAS? N.M. For Never Mind?

Why? Because he actually had the physicality to be a convincing child biker gang member, not just from size but also from demeanor. He was a terrific foil to Jughead: he was as romantic and as needy (with Josie McCoy), as snippily bitchy and sort of a nerd (he reads the town newspaper's editorials religiously; he likes being sent to the school with better resources), fully dorks out during the G&G (calls Jughead MASTER), he's capable of exciting violence like Archie, but he's best friends with the little tiny Fangs and even tinier Toni, and before they wrote him off and out of the show, he had undercurrents with Jughead and Bret that were very rich for fanon imaginings. You could say that there was no therethere to this character, but that only adds to the fun of him. He'll round up 'his boys' to go challenge Archie's football players to a fistfight (only to get knocked out like a pathetic ragdoll by the smaller Archie because plot armor), then a couple years later he auditions for the school musical and will dress up in full Hedwig drag with the same people.

As a character he's capacious and flexible enough that my long fic with Sweet Pea as the protagonist is over 300K words and I am still having such a good time playing around with this particular doll.