Tonight, I'm worried about a couple of friends, but I'm also trying to accept the things I cannot change. And I'm grateful to you all. And if there is some higher power, man, I hope it's looking down upon them tonight, and keeping them safe.
loving Tabitha’s journey of one-on-one sleuthing with Jughead, then one-on-one sleuthing with Betty, just a complete natural at acquiring herself a Riverdale boyfriend AND girlfriend. Legends only.
For the ask thing, if it's still going: bugabitha and/or Bret
I'm gonna go for the challenge of bugabitha here, because I think that it would be an adorable throuple and I am obsessed with a crack ship (like how Tabitha and Betty would come to be in love). imo Riverdale is ripe for all sorts of throuples and WE NEED MORE OF THEM. I might do Bret later (ugh, he's so perfect tho) :) :)
This one got LOOOOOONG so please continue reading under the cut!
Thanks so much for playing! Feel free to ask me questions from this list
when I started shipping it if I did: It's a recent development, sort of a "what if" scenario to bughead getting back together through Tabitha.
my thoughts (aka how this could happen): To borrow your headcanon, arsenicpanda, I fully accept that Tabitha is a secret goth. As a goth, I reckon she would be attracted to two types of people: emotionally unavailable and violent, unhinged women (aka Betty) and sad, emo, creative, soft bois with a tragic past (aka Jug). She is also a CEO or “could have any CEO job she wanted”. To be a CEO so young, you either need to be either backed by daddy’s funding – which we know is not true, or exceptionally talented. Seeing as Tabitha is not a cis white male, she would have to exhibit outstanding (1) vision and direction, (2) people skills, (3) business acumen incl bullshit detector and (4) ability to get shit done and wrangle cats (not even counting her qualifications). So Tabitha is the only character in Riverdale who goes into anything with their eyes wide open. My cracky headcanon is that her personal endgame is getting Betty and Jughead back together through her. She can achieve this because she’s smart and capable and good with people (something that neither Betty nor Jughead can claim outside of their relationship). Because of this, she goes for Jughead first because he’s a soft target (lol) and he’ll talk Betty around as well.
What makes me happy about them: The mental image of CEO corporate goth Tabitha living with her murderous sexy housecat who brings home dead bodies and sad, sexy housecat who lies around and cries for food. She would have endless pats and snacks for Jughead and coo loudly over all the dead things Betty would bring home. Very iconic of her, if you ask me.
What makes me sad about them: Nothing in my mind. I am dreading how CW handle the jabitha situation with Betty tho because we all know that bughead will happen.
I skipped the fanfic asks because I have no opinions
Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: For Tabitha, obviously, she could end up with Veronica or possibly Reggie (or, even better, both).
My happily ever after for them:
Bondage threesomes where Jughead is chained up
Mushroom trip nights
Mothman hunting together
Wild debates about Jughead’s stories where they end up in sex
Tabitha and JB starting a goth rave cave at La Bonne Nuit to show mothman/snuff films again because Tabitha loves this idea
Tabitha and JB being all goth and alternative together, maybe Tabitha sponsors her band
Tabitha being the only one of the throuple to visit Charles regularly, and Chic doesn’t hate her, but he questions her taste in lovers
Tabitha owning all the Serpents at darts in the Whyte Wyrm. She eventually gets her photo on the wall as “banned from betting” because she’s swindled too many drunks
who is the big spoon/little spoon: Betty is the biggest spoon, also because she gets up in the middle of the night to kill/hunt, Tabitha is the second spoon and Jug is the baby spoon.
what is their favorite non-sexual activity: Tabitha and Jughead cooking dinner while Betty bakes gothic desserts. They also love dressing up for Halloween. Look, this all probably ends in sex tho. Let’s be real
Tabitha meets Jones in her first year of college. She meets Elizabeth in her second year. It did not ever occur to her that she might end up loving them both. At various times, in numerous ways. In the same way they love her, other times in the opposite way.
Or
It also did not occur to her that her ex boyfriend, Jones aka her best friend, is also her girlfriend’s ex boyfriend, or really, she’s Betty. THE Betty. As the remaining braincell, she knows they love each other.
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Ps: I dabble in a brief Jabitha and in a brief Babitha (with a little more depth because…gay), but the endgame is bughead, just letting you know lol
