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Imagine you’re hired to play the token gay character in a cw teen drama and then six years later you’re playing a union-buster who’s using institutional racism to try and take custody of a child away from a black woman. and you’re still gay but now you’re dating a hundreds of years old, racist, colonising wizard and also every other character in the show is also gay now.
Did Percival Pickens kiss Kevin Keller because he was actually romantically interested in/attracted to him?
Yes, they’re perfect for each other
Sorta, he was horny and Gay Kevin was there
No, he was manipulating him
No, he just wanted him to shut up
Why tf would anyone be into Kevin
Jughead just likes making his blorbos kiss
Currently watching Riverdale (i know) season 6 and im thinking about kevin and Percival kissing.
I like to think they kiss even more and have sex and move in together and get a evil british cat and kevins like "i cant believe the hot British guy likes me!" And percy is like "hmmm my evil mastermind plan is all coming together" meanwhile he and kevin are actively showering together
ok but do you think percival got alice to flush her meds
percival archie in the gym with the boxcutter was hirarchie blood oath but less sexy. or more sexy because percival really wanted archie to die?
brave of me to say it. but all evil coercive knifeplay is perhaps equally sexy??
no, okay, let's assess. both scenes are about domination and taking archie's agency away from him - but percival wants to use archie to harm archie himself v directly, and hiram wants to use archie to harm others (fred, jughead, etc). both perpetrators are getting off on control but i think there's also a fetishistic forever-marking/branding/scarification thing going on with hirarchie over the top, that the percival/archie boxcutting scene doesn't have.
percival does his harm by one-off brute force after stewing on it privately. it's one-sided. archie CAN'T choose one way or another and therefore can't blame himself for his vulnerability after-the-fact.
hiram does his by careful, intimate manipulation, as part of an ongoing authority relationship and a betrayal that changes the way archie sees himself and his ability to relate to others forever after. it's about archie as much as it's about hiram, because it has to be in order to succeed.
both are extremely violating, with sexual overtones, but different ones (groomed intimacy vs direct coercion). both also do have prominent role playing elements - hiram and archie are swearing their blood oath in the first place as a resolution to hiram's fake fbi sting. percival puppeteers archie literally but plays with unnecessarily flowery, suggestive language the whole time; he could have walked in and commanded archie to sewer slide asap but instead he frames it all in terms of loveliness and why-don't-you. for his own fun.
btw while we're here talking about archie blood pact parallels, it's worth also noting that archie performed a blood ritual (with a special knife) at the end of s6 with his friends, too. full circle, what if ritualistically cutting your own hand/forearm open was an intimate thing you did with peers instead of evil authorities with power over you. what if you broke past your learned, forced invulnerability and trusted your friends with your very blood. perhaps it would save the world????
idk if this compare/contrast exercise is giving you what you wanted, anon. i feel like this ask came out of your groin SO respectably and admirably and honorably...and i responded with my brain unfortunately :\
i've decided, though. i think hiram's was sexier to both hiram and archie, and percival got blueballed by his own failure to perform, so hirarchie blood pact sexier final answer. thanks!
The category is: evil magical imps with accents from the British isles that are attempting to control the American small towns they are living in and also are running an antique shop on the side so they can store all their cool magical loot for free because storage units are crazy expensive I guess
do you think gaining percival pickens in season six was worth losing hiram lodge?
This has been lodged (heh) in my mind for the whole three days since you sent it to me, anon. You are devious. What a question!!!
The answer is a yes from me, because Seasons 5 and 6 of Riverdale are about the main characters learning that they are, at best, kind of mediocre adults, like the vast majority of the rest of humanity. Percival Pickens is necessary to puncture their still-adolescent levels of vanity.
Percival Pickens was part of what Riverdale the show wanted to say about how being a precocious child doesn't always - or ever, really - translate to having usable skills as an adult. (As a former precocious child I'm enraged by this daily, btw.) Percival Pickens brought the heartless indifference of the adult world right into my beloved characters' innermost sanctums - their bedrooms, their gyms, their bunkers, their minds. Betty, whose was always imbued with reckless courage, is scared of him bc he effectively fucks with her sanity. Archie, who survived many an incident of terrible violence including a bear attack as a child, almost dies at Percival's hands in a single boxing match. Veronica is run out of her business by him very handily. Jughead, who lives so much in the narratives in his head, has his whole brain invaded.
These now-adult, formerly-precocious children are confronted through Percival with the fact that all the adults of their adolescent misadventures, terrible as they were, were holding back because of love and social connection. Percival however doesn't give a fuck about them, doesn't find them special or interesting, has no connection to their mommies and daddies, no complex emotional connection to their hometown, and they are defeated by him. The narrative is on their side on this, so it posits that Percival Pickens is a demon and must be defeated by Satan himself. The only person who isn't completely decimated by Pickens is Tabitha Tate, and that's because she arrived in Riverdale as an adult.
This is getting too long but - you know how the ruthless Gladys looks at her former high school alumn's kids and mutters, Oh great, more teenagers or Hiram, deeply aggravated by Jughead, will still remember he's just a sixteen year old nerd? These are parental gestures, made by people who can see their children, and therefore the children that were, in more grown people, no matter how obnoxious they're being. The scary, painful thing about being a real adult is that you continually lose people who see you that way, and meet ever more people who will never exercise that empathy for you. That's why I'm for Percival Pickens replacing Hiram as the big bad.
