Tabitoni

Tabitoni is the femslash ship between Toni and Tabitha from the Riverdale fandom.

Canon
Toni meets Pop Tate's granddaughter, Tabitha, when Tabitha comes to Riverdale in 2027 to take over Pop's Chock'lit Shoppe as her grandfather is retiring. As Serpent Queen of the Southside Serpents, Toni purchased the downstairs of Pop's from Hiram Lodge and turned it into the new headquarters for the Serpents — the Whyte Wyrm. Toni works at Riverdale High as a guidance counsellor, but as owner of the Whyte Wyrm, she and Tabitha are around each other and likely get to know one another fairly well as colleagues. Toni is also front and center in the effort to keep the town alive, the heart of which is Pop's. Tabitha at one points references the origins of Pop's as one of the few safe havens for black people. For two young Black women to be the lifeblood of the community is a continuation of Pop's incredible legacy, as well as that of the Uktena tribe who originally owned the land, from whom Toni hails.

Tabitha's working when Toni reunites with her high school friends for the first time in 7 years, in 2021, and Toni attends Pop Tate's retirement party. Tabitha hangs out playing darts at the Wyrm for karaoke night, where Toni presents the performers. All the high school friends have a proper reunion hangout later at the Whyte Wyrm, where Tabitha also joins Jughead and Toni is working the bar. Cheryl invites everyone to a key party at her estate, ostensibly to celebrate Toni's impending family expansion with Fangs and Kevin. Tabitha comes along but leaves the party fairly quickly to take Jughead home as he's falling down drunk, while Toni stays with everyone else.

Toni goes on bed rest for a while in the late term of her pregnancy. When Josie returns to town, Toni is up and about again to try and induce labour. She joins Tabitha and visiting possible Pop investor, Alexandra Cabot, in a dance at Pop's and Tabitha thanks her for jumping in last minute to showcase what adding performing wait staff to Pop's would entail. Toni shows Tabitha and the girls some cute baby clothes she got and heads home. When the newly reformed Josie and the Pussycats perform for the first time in 10 years at the Whyte Wyrm, both Toni and huge Josie McCoy fan Tabitha are at the show. While Josie performs a powerful ballad, Toni suddenly interrupts as she's going into labour, and she ends up giving birth to her son in Tabitha's kitchen upstairs, where Tabitha and the others wait to get the happy news. When Josie and the Pussycats leave for their first ever tour together, they say goodbye to everyone in front of Pop's, and Toni comes by with her baby. She introduces him as Anthony, named after her maternal grandfather, and Tabitha coos as she meets the little baby.

After Tabitha's friend and former co-worker, Squeaky, is found murdered along the Lonely Highway, and Toni's student, Britta, has run away from her homophobic family after coming out, Tabitha and Toni, along with Betty, Fangs and Jughead, go to the junkyard where the Blossom descendants live to look for Britta and hopefully save her before she meets the same fate as Squeaky. As they ready to fight, Toni hands Tabitha a stun gun as a weapon and asks if she knows how to use it. Tabitha responds that she does, courtesy of living in a big city. They spread out and fight off the Blossoms and end up saving Britta's life. Toni and Tabitha attend the funeral for Betty's sister, Polly, who was murdered by the Blossoms, and support Betty in her grief.

When the Ghoulies blow up Pop's, Tabitha is devastated and Toni is there to support her and goes on a mission to find the culprit. Questioning a Ghoulie, she finds out it was Hiram and threatens to kill him. Veronica considers it, but Reggie comes through with evidence on Hiram, which leads Tabitha, Toni, and their friends to instead banish Hiram from Riverdale for good. Archie manages to get Riverdale re-incorporated with the promise of a different governing body, after all of the corruption Hiram brought. He proposes that Riverdale be governed by a 'Council of Four' and nominates Toni and Tabitha, along with Alice Smith and Frank Andrews. Tabitha and Toni are surprised and happy to be leading Riverdale to a new era. After the meeting, Veronica and Reggie propose a casino they would like to open in town, but Toni and Tabitha are wary and suggests that they revisit it with a proper proposal in six months, as the town has just begun its rehabilitation.

Vale
After the bomb Hiram plants under Archie's bed blows up, a confluence of elements creates a shadow timeline, Rivervale, where everything is off, as it and are Riverdale on a collision course, with elements from the real world - Riverdale - starting to merge with its shadow realm. The town sacrifices Archie, Toni becomes a fabled water being, La Llorona, to protect her son from harm, and Tabitha gets possessed by a woman who once murdered her boyfriend. All of this appears as a faint dream to them and is reset once the realms start colliding. Before both realms are destroyed, multiple Jugheads and Ethel Muggs find a way to separate them so Vale doesn't have to cease to exist, and the shadow realm is changed to no longer be consumed by darkness.

Fanon
A rarepair in the fandom, as Tabitoni haven't gotten to interact much. Shippers like that they're both at the heart of the town, and want to see them interact more and at the very least develop a friendship, especially given that their businesses are adjoined and they're now both on the town council that runs the town. There's also an opposites attract quality to the ship as Toni grew up on the poor side of town with a strong community, and Tabitha grew up rich with her parents in a big city. Despite this, they share the same values and also arguably are the two characters with the strongest connection to the town; Toni through the Uktena; Tabitha through Pop's and her family. The characters are also both very popular among viewers.

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