Keggie or Regchie?
i mean, kevin/reggie is inherently disadvantaged here as a supporting character ship. they have less going on, and what they do have going on is often a mirror of what's happening to the main characters. THAT SAID i do love kevin. and i think there's so much that's interesting about their dynamic especially in season 6/percival plot times...
but cmon. archie/reggie, man. main character/rival-foil if you're looking at s1-6?? boy best friend/boy best friend if you're looking at s7?? come onnnn that's irresistible. ARCHIE MADE REGGIE WEEP FOR THE WARM JOY OF BEING SUPPORTED AND CARED FOR DOES THAT NOT MAKE YOU FEEL CRAZY KIND OF?? DOES THAT NOT MAKE YOU BELIEVE IN LOVE AND HEALING AND THE FUNDAMENTAL GOODNESS OF HUMAN NATURE A LITTLE BIT??
sorry to shout i just. it all kind of bubbles up unexpectedly when i think about archie and reggie in what-if-adults-protected-us-sometimes-so-we-could-form-age-appropriate-attachments world.
and s1-6 archiereggie...fuck outta here. there's soooo much baggage to unpack we could sit here and do that FOREVER. archiereggie s5-6 especially would be so fucked up for reggie but maybe they could figure it out if they confronted it. maybe. given 80k words or so...just saying...if someone wants to write it...