SIGH, this post has been long coming… I’ve just been postponing it because I was nervous how some people would respond and react, but like… I have to now. So like… y’all now I don’t really ship bughead ( which, IDEK why, because by all accounts it’s cute sometimes, but there’s no… chemistry for me ) and as much as I want to stay true to Betty’s character, I think I can do that without making myself write a ship I don’t fully… get? Like there has to be a way to stay true to who she is –– because she is not defined by that ship. That being said, I know I’ve previously written Betty with like, Betchie endgame in mind, with Betty having buried affection for Archie, so I’m going to be going through my drafts and trying to edit that out and have her sort of be like… much less intense about it, because if it’s there, it’s very repressed, because obvioulsy Betty has hurt a lot when she was open about how she felt about Archie. So if she does still have feelings for him, she’s 100% ignoring it. I don’t know if that’s the way the show is going, but it’s my eductated guess that it might be something they’ll do.
I know Riverdale Betty seems to be in love with Jughead, and I mean, it does look like she is, but I don’t think it’ll really last, in my opinion. So while I’m keeping it canon, and I’d be happy to include it as a plot device and like, something in the background, and it’s happening yes, I’m not really interested in writing shippy Bughead. I love writing the friendship and especially within the comics verse where it really thrived, it’s just not my cup of tea. In that sense I’ll be diverting from Canon, I suppose… But I hope that won’t make anyone think less of me, just because I’m gearing away from Bughead.
I want to try and focus on Betty as a person, actually without a love interest. I’ve realized I care way too much who she ends up with and that’s kind of not okay to me, because she is not made complete by who she is with. When it comes down to it, I just want her to be happy, and if she is really happy, and being loved and cherished then that is what matters. I also don’t think it’s fair if she ends up realizing she has feelings for Archie, because no doubt lots of people will be hurt by it.
So yeah, I hope everyone will respect my decision and my characterization, because as everyone knows my Betty is not 100% canon-compliant ( x ), and she does have a lot of me in her, from beliefs and convictions, to attractions and thoughts, and I’m just trying to follow through with my interpretation… And.. yeah! Thanks for reading xx
atlcsheart said: “bughead is my notp g2g” BIG MOOD
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