dudebroreg:

Let me drop some truthgasms on all of you with the Riverdale conspiracy theory to end all Riverdale conspiracy theories.

Trevor Stines, who played Jason Blossom, basically confirmed that 3.04 is going to be the parent flashback ep with the RD students playing their parents, by first retweeting from the writer that there was going to be a parent flashback episode coming soon, and then retweeted the script cover for 3.04 saying “I have a feeling this is going to be a good one,” leaving it to reason that he’s excited because he’s coming back to play Clifford.







The cover image shows the Archie gang posing like the cover of the 1985 movie The Breakfast Club, making it reasonable to believe that this is the flashback episode about the parents given the time period.

In the picture, comic Jughead is seen wearing a Letterman jacket. One of the writers, Brian Paterson, tweeted “A Jones in a varsity jacket?” emphasizing how strange it is to see Jughead in this attire, depicted as the cool jock from the Breakfast Club. This suggests that this is actually FP as a teenager and NOT Jughead, and therefore that all of the comic Archie gang in this picture is representing the parents of the character. Jughead is actually FP, Kevin is actually Sheriff Keller, Veronica is actually Hermione, Archie is actually Fred, and Reggie is actually Ricky Mantle.

This isn’t my conspiracy theory, though. These are just mostly facts. Here is where you will be shook…

In the Instagram tags for the cover, RAS has tagged the actors to the images representative of their character’s parents. Cole tagged for Jughead/FP, Camila tagged for Veronica/Hermione, etc.

Charles Melton is tagged for Reggie, of course, but directly above it hovering right over the face of comic book Reggie is a tag for Jordan Connor aka Sweet Pea. Jordan’s tag is admittedly pointing towards the show logo, but it’s noticeably covering Reggie’s face and Sweet Pea has NOTHING to do with the theme of this picture at ALL. His tag is completely out of place with the rest of them.

Unless, of course, Jordan/Sweet Pea is tagged where he belongs, because Reggie and Sweet Pea are brothers who share the same father.

As a little add-on to this theory, I want to note that in at least one comic, Reggie has a brother named Oliver Mantle. Here’s an interesting factoid I took from Wikipedia, possibly relevant knowing the old school pure nerd that RAS is and how he loves his little easter eggs:

Swee'Pea (alternatively spelled Swee'pea and Sweapea on some titles and once called Sweep Pea) is a character in E. C. Segar’s comic strip Thimble Theatre/Popeye and in the cartoon series derived from it. His name refers to the flower known as the sweet pea. Before his addition to the animated shorts, the name “Sweet Pea” was a term of affection used by main character Popeye. In the cartoon We Aim to Please, he addressed girlfriend Olive Oyl that way.

It’s possible I’m reaching too hard with that last part, but the rest of it seems pretty fucking concrete to me. Sweet Pea and Reggie are at least half brothers. Maybe they don’t know it yet, but if they do know it, it explains small things that you didn’t think needed explaining like:

1) Why Reggie randomly accused Sweet Pea of sleeping with Midge out of every other Serpent in the room as if he knows the kid.

2) Why he looked so especially pissed when SP mowed him down at basketball tryouts.

3) The way he said “you have crap timing, bro” when the Serpents led by Sweet Pea arrived at Archie’s doorstep. Reggie is a total dudebro and admittedly the “bro” here could’ve just been his usual vocabulary, but the most meaningful thing that these two being siblings would explain IF it’s something he already knows is…

4) His hatred of the South Siders and the Serpents in particular. This can be explained as typical smug popular rich boy jock elitism, which is what I pretty much assumed to be the case, but what if he doesn’t want his father’s mistake anywhere near his school? Because every time he sees Sweet Pea he’s reminded of something he’d rather not think about it.

Or, neither Sweet Pea or Reggie are aware of their familial link and it’ll be revealed to them on the show at the same time it’s revealed to the audience.

Either way, I’m mostly sold that these characters are linked and we’re going to find out very early in season 3.