alright, i see your frankly bs argument that jughead has had a crush on betty in the older comics and wasn’t aro/ace in them. let’s actually take a look into that
wow i can’t believe,, he’s so in love. he so badly wants to touch her in a romantic way.. how could i have been so blind??
like wow just. look at that face. he has such a huge crush on her wow
true love. he only wanted her for her cookies and literally dumped her when she burnt them once.
look!! the one time he willingly kissed a girl was because she actually fucking tasted like food! what a romantic
guys, it’s so clear he’s not aro/ace. he’s so interested and notices women all the time.
tl;dr jughead is aro/ace, always has been, and he and betty are really good friends.
Litterally their entire dynamic was “we’re best friends who have to deal with Archie and we get along well together haha if Jughead ever wanted to date someone it probably would be Betty” turning that into “Betty and Jughead are dating” is the worst thing it’s 1000 times less interesting