southside b*tch

now please, oh please, don’t get me wrong. i love choni, and i think toni is all cheryl needs and support their relationship a hundred percent, but i can’t give up on a ship i’ve shipped since the start of season 1 and still do.  i don’t want to shit on bughead either, all i want is to just explain my reasoning and why i ship these two with the new eps having come out and so on. (: because i ship chughead and have always done, even when things are so different now. it’s a ship i don’t think i can give up on. chughead means so much to me, and i know that may sound dumb or made up based on the little screentime the two characters actually share and/or their relationship, but it really does. mainly because chughead is the first and maybe only ship (with a minor exception of choni, that i again, love) that i can fully relate to and see a deeper connection in.  jughead and cheryl seem so so different, when in reality, they aren’t at all. they’re two people from different worlds, that are joining in another, learning to understand it through the thoughts and feelings they share together. and it all sounds so deep, but it’s the best i could explain it. jughead was an outsider who never really fit in anywhere, he had a sinister look on the world because it was what he’d taught himself, and he had a hard time dealing with other people. cheryl was the same, as she felt lonely even with people around her and as if no one understood her, though masking it all with a false ounce of confidence while jughead took to sarcasm and sardonic humor, as he describes it in s1. as the two characters progress, both through s1 and s2, they go in different directions. cheryl hardens, becomes more cold, as jughead does the opposite. until s2, where it’s switched once again. they’re constantly out of balance, not knowing where to turn, feeling as if the world wasn’t made for them, and i keep screaming to myself because all they need is a little understanding and comfort, but no one seems to give them that before the serpents and then toni.  this was the initial reason i began shipping them, because i recognized their struggles and hardships and knew that if the two were to discuss it, they could form a much more deep and intimate relationship than most and understand each other, but they kept pushing each other away. but now that the characters have finally found their understanding and comfort, finally getting what they deserve, they’re at the same level. finally.  and i hope that out of this, they finally can see what they couldn’t see before. the connection i was talking about, that has always driven me.  may it turn out in a meaningful friendship, as we’ve already seen with them working together flawlessly, or something deeper, time will tell. i honestly don’t care. all i want for these characters is to finally realize their potential, within themselves and with the other, because there is so much and i love them. even if they didn’t sort out their struggles with the other, they’re finally at a point where they could possibly talk about it and such, and it makes me so glad. because jughead and cheryl has and always will deserve better, and who can better do it than the other? translation: they’re soulmates and i love them, thanks for coming to my ted talk