SweetVee

SweetVee is the het ship between Sweet Pea and Veronica from the Riverdale fandom.

Canon
Sweet Pea meets Veronica for the first time when she sets up a welcoming stand for students transferring from the recently closed Southside High. Sweet Pea walks in with his friends and sees Veronica, who genially welcomes them to Riverdale High. Veronica's welcome is interrupted by Reggie and Cheryl, who insult the Southside students. When Reggie and Sweet Pea almost come to blows, Veronica tells them off. Afterwards, they go into the lounge where Veronica introduces herself properly. They're soon interrupted by an irate Principal Weatherbee, who believes Reggie's prank despite Veronica calling him out and threatens expulsion to anyone who shows tattoos or wears gang jackets. Sweet Pea is fine with not wearing his jacket as long as they get to keep going to a good school. However, Jughead wants to protest it. Sweet Pea's loyalty to other serpents gets him involved in a fist fight in the student lounge to help Jughead, which Veronica reports to the Principal. Sweet Pea is suspended for a week.

When Veronica decides to exploit Josie's fallout with Valerie and Melody, she co-opts the Pussycats to perform with them at the racist Pickens Day festival. However, it is interrupted by Toni, Sweet Pea, and Fangs, protesting the white colonisers' slaughter of the Uktena people, the indigenous people of Riverdale. The remaining Uktena people founded the Serpents. Instead of understanding and supporting the rightful cause, Veronica is angry at being upstaged and yells at the protesters. To further fuel the Southside vs. Northside conflict, Veronica's father hires a Serpent to decapitate the Pickens statue so he can use the Mayor to displace Southsiders from their homes. Hiram eventually buys Sunnyside Trailer Park as part of his plan to take over the Southside and calls for the eviction of the Serpents. It is revealed that it will be the ruin of the neighbourhood, as it will house a private prison, all of which Veronica was in on. Sweet Pea and the Serpents try to keep it from happening by chaining themselves to Southside High in protest, but are forcibly removed. Veronica finally gets outed for what she's done at school. Veronica decides to run for Student Council President and at a "town hall" at Riverdale High, Sweet Pea is the first to pose a question. He laments the treatment of him and the other Southside students ever since they came to Riverdale and asks if it's gonna change, vocalising the damage Veronica and her family have caused.

Fanon
SweetVee is a popular rarepair, and one of the most popular het ships for Sweet Pea. Fans love it for its bad boy/rich girl pairing, but also for its Romeo & Juliet trope. Veronica and Sweet Pea come from opposite sides of the Northside/Southside conflict, centrally associated with the Lodges and the Serpents, respectively. There isn't much canon interaction between the characters, but the ship still goes strong as a popular rare pair.

On AO3, it's the most written het ship for Sweet Pea and his second most popular ship overall. There are currently over 190 works for this ship on AO3.

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 * Jordan Connor (Sweet Pea) tweeted about the moment in "As Above, So Below"