#jugheadxveronica

[atmymercy]

Riverdale Fanfic

Title: Burger Love

Ship: Jeronica.

Summary:

Invites sent, kissed and sealed for the Blossoming Fall Party at Cheryl's. The gang was excited to have a night out, yet Veronica was not expecting to see Jughead joining. He wasn't the party-going type so why is he here? Especially after she just admitted a tipsy secret!

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Set in Season 1.

[ a03 link - chapter 1 ]

[ a03 link - chapter 5 ]

[saturnaftertaste]

thoughts on jughead and veronica as a potential romance?

so many! you know a couple of years ago i actually had a very intense jeronica phase. there is some REALLY good stuff out there and i like them a lot; unfortunately they fall short of the mark. the same way betty and archie together fall short. they’re just too conventionally well suited to each other that there ends up being nothing THERE…

like. okay if uve seen up to even just season 2 of riverdale it makes a really good case for betty/jughead and archie/veronica - lots of traditionally interesting dynamics and insane things happen between these two couples. take for example betty/jughead. their romance seems to follow the same sort of lines as nancy/jonathan from stranger things - investigative surburban princess x ostracized alternative “artist” (even though jughead does a lot of writing on screen, in the first couple of seasons he always seems to have a camera on hand like jonathan). they have a very intense connection founded on the fact that they have similar priorities, which means in a lot of ways they didn’t get together for romance reasons in the first place. them becoming a thing is a side effect of being in the same circumstance. however, because the first thing in their relationship is not their attraction to each other, this means that the specter of veronica and archie is always there. like. think about it; betty wants archie, and she’s jealous of veronica who has archie. jughead wants betty, and is jealous of archie, because he feels like a consolation prize.

on the flipside, archie and veronica are built on mutual sexual attraction at the very start and it peters off because they don’t have the same priorities/interests/way of thinking. in this way, betty and jughead are also looming in veronica/archie, because veronica is jealous of betty who is “good” which is what she wants to be and hates jughead who is always in archie’s good graces - part of the reason that veronica wants to be with archie is because he is so Good. the narrative frames her as an agent of “good” whenever she’s with archie, and much more morally grey when she’s with reggie/chad/whatever. so when jughead, who is kind of the boy version of her - smart, pretentious, and snarky - is still beloved by the girl she would like to call her best friend (betty doesn’t fully get on the b&v train until s2, and even then it’s mostly betty calling the shots in the friendship) AND by her boyfriend, jughead by transitive law is “good” and “belongs”, things that veronica desperately wants for herself.

still in that relationship, archie sexually wants veronica, but is feeling pressured to be with betty. unsurprisingly, archie also wants jughead, but in less of a “he’s my girlfriend” way and more like “i want to tie my wrist to yours so that if your wrist breaks mine does too” because he feels bad about abandoning jughead and the road trip for ms grundy (which maybe i’ll do a seperate post on) but not only that, the narrative like, actively draws parallels between jughead and the girls (he walked in looking for the girl next door, but all he found was me). jughead and archie are described in the description of riverdale’s first season as “best friends” and this carries forward all the to the last season where it’s literally just by name and nothing else, but the point is that archie’s attention and therefore loyalty is split between three people with very different agendas and roles in the story/in the town.

which explains why perhaps the lightxlight and darkxdark pairings don’t have much appeal; betty and archie together in s5+6 was some of the most boring romance i’ve ever witnessed. jugheadxveronica is written off as ludicrous in-narrative because veronica kisses jughead ONCE in the three years they know each other, and then when suggested to do it again (jughead paradox) it’s all work and no play. even s7 jeronica is written in a weird slanted light because 50sjughead is asexual (?) up until veronica actively expresses interest in him (?) which came out of nowhere and then was dropped as a narrative thread and only picked up several episodes later. s7 jeronica is also really boring in that they don’t even like each other’s opinions on things (which is true to the main timeline, by the way) but also there’s zero chemistry there.

my theory is that the reason jeronica as a ship had so much forward propulsion until s7 was because their most important scene was actually a polycule one - the spiteful kiss in front of a visibly upset archie x betty was what really made jeronica so much more interesting than the other ships to me, but if you go one step further and consider their unaltered characters in a long-term relationship it gets really boring really fast.

i would argue, actually, that a lot of this is the fault of the non-adaptation of jughead’s comic-canon asexuality. they try to fix it later with the 50s scenes in the sweet hereafter and the characterization of s6 -> s7 jughead, but even then we end up with the four splitting off their various ways. the reason no single-woman x archie andrews relationship is compelling is because the choice made between girls is what’s compelling, and throwing jughead in as another viable option for a relationship kills the tension between the three of them by making it a perfect four, which is why i think messy polycule/bettyjughead/veronicaarchie dynamics are much more interesting, because the original thesis (well, i make it sound way more serious than it is) of the archie comics b&v choice was the opportunity cost. date betty and lose the sexy rich girl. date veronica and lose the childhood sweetheart. throw jughead in the mix, and now you have a different, even more compelling story of mutual confused desires. but separating them based on light/dark and playing happy families with them based on that dichotomy of pairing is boring. at least in the long run, without the specter of the other two left out.

[cheryls-riverdale]

I’ve truly descended into Riverdale rarepair hell, I ship CherylxJughead, JugheadxVeronica, CherylxVeronica, VeronicaxReggie and more probably

[jazon-todd]

do you think there's any possibility of jugheadxveronica? i quite like their dynamic but the writers seem utterly opposed to having them interact at all

I haven’t been watching the show except for barchie episodes so idk about like anything other than barchie

[apileoftrashwriter]

Favourite Riverdale Ship

Ship? Ships. JugheadxVeronica Jarchironnie ArchiexJughead

[troubleforsure-blog]

#riverdale #veronica lodge #jughead jones #jugheadxveronica

[vertigatari]

but no really am I the only person shipping bettyxarchie and jugheadxveronica?!

[atmymercy]

Burger Love (Jeronica) (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/story/377603982-burger-love-jeronica?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_myworks&wp_uname=atmymercy 

 Invites sent, kissed and sealed for the Blossoming Fall Party at Cheryl's! The gang was excited to have a night out, yet Veronica wasn't expecting to see Jughead joining! He wasn't the party-going type so why is he here? Especially after she just admitted a tipsy secret! 

Set in Season 1. Jeronica fanfic.

[letspretendthisisaniceusername]

Srsly tho all I want from Riverdale rn is JERONICA!!

[atmymercy]

Riverdale Fanfic

Title: Burger Love

Ship: Jeronica.

Summary:

Invites sent, kissed and sealed for the Blossoming Fall Party at Cheryl’s. The gang was excited to have a night out, yet Veronica was not expecting to see Jughead joining. He wasn’t the party-going type so why is he here? Especially after she just admitted a tipsy secret!

.

Set in Season 1.

[ a03 link - chapter 1 ]

[ a03 link - chapter 6 ]

[atmymercy]

Riverdale Fanfic

Title: Burger Love

Ship: Jeronica.

Summary:

Invites sent, kissed and sealed for the Blossoming Fall Party at Cheryl’s. The gang was excited to have a night out, yet Veronica was not expecting to see Jughead joining. He wasn’t the party-going type so why is he here? Especially after she just admitted a tipsy secret!

.

Set in Season 1.

[ a03 link - chapter 1 ]

[ a03 link - chapter 8 ]

[atmymercy]

Riverdale Fanfic

Title: Burger Love

Ship: Jeronica.

Summary:

Invites sent, kissed and sealed for the Blossoming Fall Party at Cheryl’s. The gang was excited to have a night out, yet Veronica was not expecting to see Jughead joining. He wasn’t the party-going type so why is he here? Especially after she just admitted a tipsy secret!

.

Set in Season 1.

[ a03 link - chapter 1 ]

[ a03 link - chapter 7 ]