Regpea

Regpea is the slash ship between Reggie and Sweet Pea from the Riverdale fandom.

Canon
Reggie and Sweet Pea have a calamitous first encounter. Sweet Pea shows up on Archie's doorstep after Archie threatened Sweet Pea with a gun on the Southside. Sweet Pea is understandably outraged, given how Archie is from the rich part of town, coming to terrorise the poorer side, which has always been derided by the Northside. However, he does so by threatening Archie right back and Reggie, who, along with the Bulldogs, are at Archie's house, steps up and challenges Sweet Pea to a fight, being against the Southside and eager to beat them down. The two groups ultimately decide to face off and meet up in the pouring rain. Reggie and Sweet Pea fight each other, but the fight's broken up by Veronica firing a gunshot in the air. Dilton has been stabbed in the thigh and Reggie rushes him to the hospital, planning to put the blame on the Southsiders, even though it seems Dilton stabbed himself. They both attend the drag race between the Serpents and the Ghoulies, but don't interact.

After Southside High is closed down, the students get transferred to Riverdale High. Sweet Pea and the other Serpents are jubilant at finally attending a good school, but are cautious as the enter Riverdale High. They are meet by a belligerent Reggie, who mouths off to them and tells them they're not welcome. He then threatens Sweet Pea who steps to him and they both seem ready to fight until Veronica steps between them. To try and get rid of them, Reggie graffitis the school emblem in the hallway and the principal takes the bait, ordering the Southside students not to wear their jackets. While Sweet Pea is angry along with the others, he doesn't make a move on Reggie in the situation. Sweet Pea's chill about the not wearing the jacket, but Jughead flips out and does it to spite the school. Reggie gets pissed and antagonises Jughead, who returns the favour, resulting in a brawl in which Sweet Pea helps Jughead, as decreed by Serpent code. Veronica rats them out to the principal and they all get a week's detention for fighting. As everyone starts to settle into school life, Sweet Pea joins the basketball team where he faces off with and overtakes a flummoxed Reggie who is seemingly unable to deal with the new status quo.

After Midge Klump is brutally murdered at the school musical, Sweet Pea and Reggie, along with the rest of their classmates, attend her funeral. When Moose reveals to his friends that Midge cheated on him with a Serpent, Reggie, who has been picking a fight with the Southside all year, is furious and goes off to confront the Serpents in the student lounge, singling out Sweet Pea. Sweet Pea's offended and Reggie keeps pushing until Sweet Pea retorts and Reggie lounges at him. They're stopped by the joint efforts of Archie and Jughead. After everyone learns Fangs was seeing Midge he's arrested, but not charged as another shooting happens. However, upon his release an angry mob forms outside the Sheriff's station. Sweet Pea covers Fangs with Toni and Jughead as they try to get him safely out through the throng, while Reggie approaches with a gun aimed at Fangs. Archie tackles Reggie at the last minute and Sweet Pea sees what he was about to do as Fangs is shot anyway. He falls down as Sweet Pea holds him and Sweet Pea looks up at Reggie, who is horrified.

Fanon
A rarepair owed to, once again, Riverdale's lack of screen time between its characters. Despite this, Sweet Pea is a popular character and so are his slash pairings. Regpea particularly because of the archaic macho bravado between them that lends itself seamlessly to homoeroticism.

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