Fanghead

"Serpents' got your back. I got your back"

- Jug to Fangs

Fanghead is the slash ship between Jughead and Fangs from the Riverdale fandom.

Canon
Jughead and Fangs meet when Jughead starts school at Southside High. They don't spend a lot of time together at first, with Jughead going toe-to-toe with Fangs' friend Sweet Pea a lot and Jughead finds it crazy that Fangs wants to participate in making a pipe bomb to retaliate against the Northside. Their relationship changes when Jughead joins the Southside Serpents and gains an affinity for the camaraderie and support he finds on the Southside.

When Southside High is shut down and the students are transferred to Riverdale High, Fangs is the only one besides Jughead who refuses to follow the dress code, and he cuts class instead. Once Jughead changes his mind and sets up the Swords & Serpents 'after school gaming club' as a safe haven for the Serpents at Riverdale High, he convinces Fangs to return to school. Fangs (along with Sweet Pea) stands by Jughead when he wants to drive Penny Peabody out of Riverdale and in confrontations with Tall Boy, who turns out be a traitor.

Jughead, Fangs, Toni and Sweet Pea adjust to life at Riverdale High and actually like it there. Fangs works as Assistant Director to Kevin on the school musical, which Jughead is video documenting, and as Jughead walks into Midge's dressing room filming he finds Fangs there with Midge. Fangs tries to explain that he was just helping Midge rehearsing lines which Jughead accepts though he seems suspicious. After Midge is murdered, Fangs attends her funeral with Jughead and Sweet Pea. A rumour starts going around that Midge was cheating on Moose with one of the Southside Students and Fangs is worried her death will be pinned on him, so he goes to Jughead and confesses to the affair. Jughead promises Fangs that he will not let anything happen to him and that they'll figure this out together.

Somehow, the video of Fangs and Midge backstage is put online and everyone accuses Fangs of having killed Midge, especially the blood thirsty Bulldogs. Fangs is taken in by Sheriff Minetta and Jughead gets the assistance of Attorney McCoy, who assures him and Fangs that Fangs is safer in jail as the town is forming an angry mob outside the station. Fangs spends the night in jail, but is released and the Southside 4 — Jughead, Toni, Fangs and Sweet Pea — band together and promise to protect each other as they brave the angry mob outside. Despite their efforts, amidst the chaos Fangs is shot in the chest and Jughead screams for help.

Fanon
A rarepair in the fandom.

Fandom
AO3

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