I warned yall but welcome to the pleasantville x riverdale (pleasantdale) au <3 you do have to be familiar with the movie's plot to understand what's happening here, otherwise it'll be extremely confusing.
so we begin on betty and jughead. theyre living together at this point, so it takes place around the non stonewall era of s4, and jughead, freak that he is, has become weirdly fixated on a sitcom from the 50s.
betty thinks it's annoying but she lets it slide for the most part, until a strange man shows up and makes jughead answer a bunch of pleasantville trivia, rewarding him with a fucked up tv remote after he answers everything right.
obviously this remote transports them to pleasantville. youve seen the movie (probbaly), you knew that would happen.
anyway once they get there they're greeted with the knowledge that they're now actual 50s stepsiblings and their parents are weirdly perfect versions of alice and fp.
archie takes on a similar role to skip here, except unlike skip, he's not a cunt. him and betty go on their little date and jughead is PISSED, partially because betty's ruining the pleasantville lore, partially because betty's still his girlfriend (for obvious reasons it isn't like they can date here though. this isn't cruel intentions), and partially because he's got a massive crush on archie.
barchie has sex a grand total of one time here, and that's the catalyst for everything changing. instead of seeing a rose in color for the first time though, I think archie sees a snake, solidifying the adam and eve comparison as an aspect of the narrative more than the movie did. him and betty don't go on any dates after this but archie immediately tells the entire football team what sex is, and thus whore reggie is born.
jughead and betty get into a massive fight over this because jughead is upset that she's ruining the sanctity of pleasantville and betty is upset that this place fucking sucks. they break up as well.
switching to the b plot here, pop obviously runs the diner here and just like in the canon of the movie movie I think he has a secret love for painting. him and alice don't get the romance plot their characters have in the movie, but pop and cheryl do become friends through a shared love of art and together they turn pop into a mix of very pretty family-friendly art and prophetic witch paintings of archie's abs.
back to the a plot, archie and jughead start getting very close and eventually they end up getting together, which fucks up the "intended" plot of pleasantville even more. basically they gay tongue kiss and it rains for the first time.
there's no half baked racism allegory in this au. instead I think the conflict here is that some of the townspeople hate the changes that are happening to pleasanville. the ones leading this anti change campaign are hiram and alice.
this is where veronica comes in. she reveals that she's been secretly embracing the changes the entire time, smearing off a layer of gray makeup and revealing the colors underneath. together with the rest of the core four (and pop and cheryl) they start a counter protest in favor of these changes. this counter campaign gains support from all the other riverteens as well as some of the other members of parentdale, like fp.
eventually they win over majority of the town despite alice and hiram's bitching, and the movie/au reaches its conclusion. neither betty nor jughead stay in pleasantville, opting instead to return home to riverdale.
I think they've been gone for several days worth of real time though, which is really funny when you remember that poor fp JUST learned his son wasn't actually murdered.
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