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itsjugheadjones · 7 years

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The Little Things || Veronica Lodge x Jughead Jones

word count : 1,525

pairing : Jughead Jones x Veronica Lodge

warnings : angst

summary : What started out as mutual respect turns into something much more than that. But Jughead realizes he had no chance with her with she stars on Archie.

a/n : i don’t want anyone attacking anyone else for this. i know how the shipping community is in riverdale but please...it’s not that big of a deal. people will like what they like. it’s not like this will become canon! c:

Jughead never really thought much of Veronica Lodge. She was just a new girl in his mind, a new girl that came from a rich background(or once rich) with an attitude to match that. He didn’t have the time for such snotty people. The New York really wasn’t his type and so he had no real time for her.

He did have to admit that he was surprised to see her hanging around with Betty Cooper. The black haired girl and blonde seemed rather different. Having grown up around Betty, he’d known her as a teacher’s pets: someone way to nice to say one rude thing to anyone else. Of course he could totally see her hanging out with Archie Andrews, his ex best friend. They seemed like they would just gravitate towards each other without even Betty being a meeting point. But lucky for him, he was no longer friends with Archie so he didn’t have to deal with such a brat.

Coming to terms with the fact he had to make up with Archie was a little hard for him. He felt so wronged by the red-head. He felt he didn’t deserve anything that he’d received from that guy. Jughead felt he had every right to hate his guts but the only thing he wanted was a simple ‘sorry’, that he never got. When he found out Archie was sleeping with Grundy, he had felt so disgusted. He never saw Archie as being weak, but watching Miss. Grundy prey on him made him want to vomit. Jughead also couldn’t believe Archie would defend her when Jughead confronted her.

It didn’t matter though, things would happen as they did and there was nothing Jughead would or could do. He could only be there for Archie and their mending friendship. That night at the diner had been the first time he really say and talked to Veronica Lodge. The girl he’d been so quick to write off. She wasn’t as bad as he thought. She was a strong women looking to change, of course he didn’t think Riverdale would be a good place to really change. It was a small town after all; all those places were usually stuck in their own ways.

After that night, Jughead found himself around the other girl a lot more often than he ever would have thought. He began to curse his preconceived idea about the river vixen, she was nothing like he originally thought. The more time he spent with the girl the more he realized they were kind of the same? Okay, not really but close. They both had such a strong personality, attitudes that were a force to be reckoned with, a sharp tongue that could cut deeper than any knife. They were different but the same.

“Hey Jughead. I think you live here.” He heard Veronica say as she slid into the booth seat a-cross from him. He gave her a fake smile, continuing to type on his computer. “Very funny. It’s the only place i can focus to write, just so you know.”Jughead huffed out. If he hadn’t gotten so close to the other girl the last couple of weeks he wouldn’t have known she shrugged her shoulders before popping a fry into her mouth. “Hey! those are mine you know.” Jughead huffed. There was really only one rule he about Jughead: Never eat his food. Veronica rolled her eyes as she dusted the salt from her fingers. “Too salty for me anyways.” she huffed before leaned on the table towards Jughead. “I’m throwing a party and you need to be there, Jug.” She said with a large grin on her face.

Jughead raised his eyebrows and slowly closed his laptop. “You do know who you are talking to? The pariah of the town, i carry the meanest plague. You want people to show up to that party of yours? Don’t invite me.” Jughead huffed. Veronica shook her head. “It’s a small thing with just the four of us. Things have been really stressed and I just want to have fun. As the newest member of our group; I took it upon myself to throw a..sleep over of sorts.” Veronica grinned and he knew he was hooked. He couldn’t place why but that smile just made him melt. “Fine, I might-” “No! you will be there Jughead Jones. No ‘ands, ifs, or buts’ about it!” Veronica cut off before jumping up. “I’ll see you are my house in an hour.”

An hour later he found himself in front of the Lodge house. He had half the mind to turn and walk away. But he felt he couldn’t let Veronica down...and it was a party for the four of them. When he knocked, Betty was the one to answer; the large innocent smile on her lips. “Hey Juggie. Everyone is in the living room. We were just about to put on a movie.” she said, motioning him to follow. “Oh great, what movie?” He asked but completely zoned out when he saw Archie and Veronica basically curled into each other on the couch. He didn’t exactly know why, but he could feel the strain on his heart and he had to force himself to look away.

“Isn’t that a good movie, Jug?” Betty said as she plopped down on the couch. “Huh? oh right. Yeah; it’s a good movie.” He said, going to sit on the chair. Jughead was confused, he didn’t have feeling for Veronica. He never had feelings for anyone. It wasn’t like he to like other like that but then why did he care so much that Veronica was so close to Archie? He should have guessed it, pretty people just gravitate towards each other.

All through the movie, Jughead had to make sure he kept focus on the movie and not on the two cuddling on the couch. At the end credits, Jughead was out of that seat and claiming he had to go the bathroom. Everyone else in the room was rather confused by his actions, he was generally so relaxed about things; seeing Jughead so strung out was crazy.

In twenty minutes, he had come up with a reason for him not being able to stay: his parents needed him. He just couldn’t sit in the same room having these feelings and act okay with everything. Jughead wouldn’t do that to himself. Coming back into the room and picking up his bag. “I’m sorry to cut this short. It’s been uh...real fun. But my parents need me so I gotta go..” He say, throwing his thumb over his shoulder as he backed away from the group.

Jughead glanced over at Veronica, who looked a bit sad at his sudden departure. “Oh, okay Juggie. We’ll see you later than!” Betty said happily, not even really catching on the feeling in the air. Jughead nodded, wringing his hands before turning an walking out the door. He wasn’t even down the steps when he heard his name being called. “Jughead, wait; what’s wrong.” It was Veronica and he didn’t know what to even say to her. On one hand telling her how he felt would get things off his chest but saying his feelings might ruin things again.

Jughead just shook his head. “Nothing, my parents really do need me.” He dismissed, looking almost anywhere but her. It was so different, he didn’t like this feeling. He didn’t feel like himself. “That’s a lie. Tell me right now what’s wrong. Is it cause Archie and you aren’t really better yet? Did Betty or I do something?” She asked, obviously worried something was terribly wrong. There was something wrong, but nothing with her. Never with her. “No, it’s not that. Uhm..IkindofreallylikeyourVeronica.” Jughead rushed, cheeks red as a tomato.

Veronica looked confused, “What did you say, Jug?” She asked, her head tilting in the most adorable way. Oh, she would be the death of him. It was all the little things that made him feel this way. The way she stuck up for the underdogs, her ability to be so nice but so snarky, when she wrinkled her nose a little when she smiled a little to big..it was everything. At that moment he knew he just had to tell her or he should be living in regret of not telling her. “Okay, I really like you, Veronica. It’s all really new to me cause I’ve never liked anyone. But I saw you and Archie together on the couch so I know I don’t stand a chance but I guess-” He was cut off by warm lips pressed to his only for them to be removed moments later. “Relax Jug! Archie and I aren’t together and never will be. We were just cold and I didn’t put to pull out blankets” She said, smiling at him. “If that was the only thing wrong, We can figure this out. You’re an awesome guy and I want things to work out. For now, let’s just get back in there and watch the next movie.” Veronica said, smiling softly as she led Jughead back into her house.

#veronica x jughead #riverdale #riverdale imagines #jughead imagines #veronica imagines #veronica lodge imagine #the core four

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somewhere-inthemeadow · 7 years

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Hi, I just wanted to ask about Jughead. I thought he was only confirmed as asexual and the aromantic thing was to be kind of decided/expanded upon? If this isn't the case I apologize! I kind of feel as though Betty and Jughead came out of nowhere and Betty was literally head over heels for Archie one second and then this. So I think the show would make a lot of sense if they realized they misunderstood their relationship because I mean they're 15 who has hormones figured out? Have a great day!

hi anon. I hope you have a great day too. I’m gonna do a brief summary of the issue cause there’s a billion people who could explain it better than me, I can guarantee.

jughead has always been written as tho he is aroace, even in the original archie canon. in his own spinoff, jughead has come out as asexual (using that exact word) and the writer of the spinoff has confirmed that he has been writing jughead with aromantic leanings. So essentially the voice of god has deemed that jughead is aroace (Its also implied throughout the canon that jughead is touch-averse, but that’s another issue).

Its too early in the morning for me to find receipts for these, but if you want me to I definitely can, or like just google them, they are not that hard to find.

I have a lot of issues with riverdale in general, but I feel like bughead attacks me personally due to the I N T E N T I O N A L erasure of jughead’s aromanticism and asexuality that the writers have no plans on correcting themselves on in the future. This shows that they do not think aces are WORTHY enough to be written about, that we do not DESERVE to see ourselves on tv and that because we are aroace, we inherently cannot be part of decent arcs because of our aroaceness. And thus we end up with a jughead that feels like he has had something cut out of him as the writers rewrite his whole being and force him into situations he is super uncomfortable in.

To Sprouse’s credit (or this may just be me holding out hope for a character that I can connect with) jughead is still played, and kinda written, as though he is a confused aroace/aroace in denial. However, bughead seeks to erase any mention of the AROace part of his identity and that’s why a lot of the community is mad.

And let us not forget how DISRESPECTFUL the riverdale fandom is. They talk about jughead without know the damage his re-writing is doing to the ace and aro communities and how bughead personally invalidates us. And their bullshit ‘alternative universe’ is bullshit because as I have said before it goes to show how aphobic this fandom and show can be just so they can force a ship that was never meant to be onto a character that literally does not need one. There is romance between other characters in the show, you do not need to attack the A R O M A N T I C A S E X U A L and force him to fit your allo romance mould.

it also proves that IF JUGHEAD HAD BEEN ANY OTHER KIND OF QUEER WE WOULDN’T BE HAVING THESE DISCUSSIONS. people would accept jughead’s queerness and move on. how dare bughead shippers (or jarchie shippers for that matter) think they can talk over me, an aroace, about how I should be responding to a ship that personally invalidates ME! the sheer audacity you need to have to keep your hate ship going, knowing that seeing it being presented onstage is painful. What does it take you to understand that this ship tears something very important away from a character that represents a very underrepresented community and that by doing so tells us that we are not worthy of stories? that we are a lower class? and let us not forget the shippers that admit he is ace, but refuse to admit he is aro just so they can keep their ship afloat.

I am yet to write down my full thoughts on bughead, but trust me when I say a lot of the issues I have with it comes from the sheerness thickheadness of the bughead shippers and how they love to keep that aphobia coming.

Of course, riverdale in general is a shit show. There’s a reason that its only pulling a two star rating on netflix. the writing is shit and makes no sense (anyone who has ever paid any attention to my liveblog will know how I feel about this). In ep 1 betty was meant to be head over heels, irrevocably in love with archie, in ep 3 she wouldn’t have blinked if you said his name. there was also something going on with veronica and archie, but that was literally never mentioned again. and after the betty/veronica kiss in ep 1, did they ever even discuss that again?? cause I can tell you if someone kissed me and I wasn’t aware they were going to, and do it so publicly and unexpectedly, I would be flipping my shit.

Its things like that that show that riverdale was written by people who don’t really know what they are doing. And its things like the queer-baiting beronica kiss that show that river was written by non-queer writers. the way the show has handled its queer rep has been bullshit. I mean kevin says in either ep 3 or 4 that he wishes moose would just stay in the closet?? What kind of self respecting queer person would push away and further closet someone who is obviously struggling with themselves?? and do we get to know more about the snake guy from the drive in episode?? I reckon we won’t. The show is not progressive for having a gay character, and they way the have handled him is bullshit to say the least.

And this doesn’t even begin to describe the show’s inability to deal with its own storylines. the writing is painful and I hate it but I keep holding out because jughead means a lot to me as an ace person. even without the consideration of queer rep, the plotlines in the show do not develop naturally or overlap with each other well enough to make this show any kind of Good. I mean, what was going on with the wolf masks in the fear ep?? I have written about this elsewhere but that makes no sense in writing or onstage?? This show has bitten off more than it can chew and I think it knows it.

Of course, it is reasonable that betty and jughead will break up in a few episodes, but to rectify the damage that bughead has caused, this breakup needs to be followed with jughead coming to terms with and being comfortable in his AROMANTIC ASEXUAL self. And the fandom but accept this and move on, or else continue to ship bughead in non-romantic ways.

I am all down for this kind of arc, but something tells me that the writers do not have the guts to do something so bold.

I could rant on 5eva about bughead and riverdale in general but I’m gonna stop because it is early and I want today to be a good day

#anon #replies #that one riverdale bughead ace dispute #I cannot believe you made me say aphobia #why would you do that #also like soz for the long post #i have a lot to say

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