Jughead asked Betty to be his Serpent Queen in the Riverdale season 2 finale. Does that mean they’re engaged?

During the Riverdale season 2 finale, Jughead asked Betty to be his “Serpent Queen” and she accepted. Fans have spent the summer speculating on what this moment meant. The show framed it as if it was a marriage proposal, but there was some ambiguity.

On Oct. 7, I had a chance to ask Lili Reinhart about thing during a Riverdale press session at New York Comic-Con.

“Not engaged. A lot of people kind of took it as an engagement, which at one point or another maybe it was written that way. I think it was honestly just kind Jughead’s way of solidifying Betty’s way in with the South Sides. Sweet Pea wasn’t really a fan of Betty being a part of the Serpents. Tall Boy certainly wasn’t but who gives a s**t about him. I think it’s kind of like just his way of saying you’re my partner in this, I want you to help me, I appreciate your help with the Serpents, I recognize you, I see you. I think was just a very sweet kind of bond and moment between them. Do I think it’s going to drastically change the outlook of the Serpents? No, I just think it’s a very sweet way of jughead telling Betty that she’s important to him and to the Serpents”, Lili told me.

Another reporter out our press table asked Lili about she thinks drives Betty to solve mysteries.

“I think it comes from a distrust that she has with the adults. Especially after season 1. I think she’s kind of like, if she wants the answers she’s going to have to go get them. She’s going to have to take matters into her own hands which I love about her.

She doesn’t take answers sitting down. She goes and questions them and finds her own reasoning. She really just kind of takes charge and solves it on her own. And that’s how she always ends up in the middle of this thing. Because she digs sometimes a little too deep. It definitely happens this season as well. She gets herself into a bad situation by sleuthing around the wrongs things and pissing off the wrong people”, Lili said.

Lili was then asked how Archie’s imprisonment would affect the friendship dynamic between Betty/Jughead/Veronica. “I think Betty, Veronica and Jughead all become kind of wrapped up in their own things. Betty and Jughead do take on the mystery of the Gargoyle King together but Veronica is very busy running her speakeasy and trying to get Archie out, doing everything that she can. And not say that Jughead and Betty aren’t, It’s just I feel like they feel like they’ve exhausted their sources and there’s not much left to do and there is this new mystery in town. So they’re going to go take care and leave Veronica to helping Archie”, Lili said.

Lili then spoke about Betty’s accountability.

“Betty has done some sh**y things that people have kind of overlooked and forgiven her for like the way that she spoke to Veronica at the party in episode 5. Veronica very easily forgave her.

I think people were kind of pissed off when Betty got so mad at Veronica for keeping Hiram’s secret about Southside High and the prison. People thought that was a little unfair of her because she was also kind of keeping secrets from Veronica earlier on. And I get it, Betty’s not a perfect person. But Betty really doesn’t think of herself as almighty.

She doesn’t think that everything she does is unforgivable, but she’s 17. Some things are going to be exaggerated a little bit more than others. I don’t know if I think anything is unforgivable. I’m happy that Betty wasn’t more pissed off at Jughead for hooking up with Toni because I sure would be. Betty kind of keeps her cool around Tony and kind of becomes a little bit of her ally as well which surprises me, because I mean it’s not Toni’s fault, I’d be more pissed off at Jughead. I think she should have read him the riot act for doing that once they got back together but that’s where Betty’s better than me I guess”, Lili told us.

She was then asked about the return of the “Dark Betty” and her wig.

“No more wig. It’s gone, I got rid of it, I threw it away”, Lili said. “The anger, the self harm, the deep kind of bubbling thing that she has inside of her is 100 percent there. You see it at its full throttle at one point when she’s pushed to her limits. This girl can only go through so much and she does go through so much. It’s almost like her reaction to a fight or flight situation.

That’s her kind of armor and shield that she puts on. It’s not a facade because she is a bad*ss. She has it inside of her but it’s just kind of her survival mode In a way. It’s what she has to do to get by. You see that for sure this season and it’s scary. She’s not a monster. She’s still Betty. She just has some anger that she’s got to get out”, she continued.

She promised more “Bughead” (the fan term for the Jughead and Betty relationship) action in the second and third episode of season 3. “Those two episodes are really good with the two of them being their investigative sleuthing duo. That was fun to do. They go on a little adventure”, Lili told us.

Are you a fan of the Betty and Jughead relationship? Should they get engaged for real? Let us know in the comments! Riverdale returns for season 3 on Wednesday, Oct 10 on the CW.