Does hiram want archie? Or does he just want to touch something that has groped his daughter?
Probably both arch calls him Dracula a book I've used in several web weaving suggests that the vampirism that exists in Dracula the novel is akin to like child sexual abuse and if we add in that Archie was groomed by msgrundy semi recently when he gets to know Hiram he would be more susceptible to Hiram's abuse than one would be typically
At the very least Hiram doesn't take rejection from Archie well and is as aggressive towards consuming as he is Veronica and unlike Veronica who he seem desire economic control of Hiram wants to kill him to physically consume him at the very least is on the edge of homoerotic
Hiram is gay and Archie is full of goodness and kindness and what's more appealing to grooming then taking the life out of someone destroying their soul than Jesus ass Archie
Part of it that Archie has this suppressed rage from the impact of grundy abuse that he as man is more likely to act in the vain physically rather than emotionally Hiram provides Archie a way to process rage
I think that given that Greg Araki directed the episode where Hiram and Archie literally box it out it that's what the narrative is suggesting Hiram wants to consume that rage Archie has and when Archie eventually says no it's at the emotional support of Veronica and Jughead reminds as children of gang/mob leaders a rejection of tradition, it's a erotic rejection from Archie, and a rejection from his daughter so I think the two become blended together
In daddy lessons which plays during the boxing match Archie and Hiram do Beyonce says this
'Cause when trouble comes in town
And men like me come around"
Oh, my daddy said shoot (yee)
Ultimately it's Hiram that forces Archie in the position to fight him he craves his attention his touch his violence he begs him to kill him to feel him
he's a repressed gay man who finds his own daughters lesbian perspective that inherently doesn't make men of more importance than anyone else necessary as a attack on himself and it challenges and reminds his of his own homosexuality hence why Ronnie and Archie both evoke such need for control from hiram
