#I am not touching on the discourse of whether they should have made riverdale jughead aro/ace bc the comic where he was depicted that way

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as a jughead connoisseur for most of my life my view of him is that in the comic universe he's aro/ace, because I really like the chip zdarsky and ryan north comics where this is explicitly canon, as well as the fact that I appreciate characters who do not care about romance at all and have plot lines very disconnected from it. I am not aro/ace, but I am very romance indifferent and I am normally the only single person among my irl friend group at any given point, so I relate to jughead not giving a shit about any of his friend's romance drama. he's winning the idgaf war. however, in the show riverdale he is so disconnected from comic jughead and the show tries so aggressively to make him act straight despite the fact that at this point every single character is gay or has had at least one gay scene (cole sprouse WILL NOT kiss a man!) it's almost comical. to me it comes off like he's definitely into men but he's too busy being the narrator or whatever tf he does in that show to care. the absence of his gayness makes him gayer.

#I still love aro jughead he is my everything it is just impossible for me to fully connect comic jughead and riverdale jughead in my brain #those are two different guys #I am not touching on the discourse of whether they should have made riverdale jughead aro/ace bc the comic where he was depicted that way #came out in the midst of riverdale development and that wasn't their vision #even if it would have been nice. in the older comics I still #see him as aro but all that's talked about in those is that he's not into women which leaves room for interpretation #also in the oldest comics he was just a misogynist and it was retconned into him not being interested in women once they realized that was #bad trait for a supposedly likable main character to have #either way he is not straight and if you think he's straight you are actually insane #tl; dr: comics jughead aro riverdale jughead gay that man does not like women!! #enigma musings #sorry for this I am very invested in archie lore