Jellybean Jones
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Forsythia "Jellybean" Jones is a recent addition to the Archie comics continuity. During the 1990s an attempt to reinvent Jughead Jones's character was started through a story in which Jughead's mother unexpectedly becomes pregnant. This was published in a special mini-series called "Jughead's Baby Tales".
[edit] The littlest Jones
Jellybean was officially named Forsythia after her older brother, whose real name is Forsythe.
on the cover of Jughead's Baby Tales#1
Jughead dislikes the name in any form, and continues the family tradition of referring to the person only by his/her nickname by calling the baby "Jellybean". This name came from the type of truck that crashed and caused the traffic jam in which she was born. The name also probably stems from Jughead's fabled love of food.
Like her brother, she knows whom she can trust and whom she cannot. For example, she gets along with some of her brother's friends, like Archie Andrews, her brother's best friend, but she doesn't trust his girlfriend, Veronica Lodge. In fact, Jellybean can't stand Veronica, because usually she will use Jellybean to score points with boys, which annoys Jughead to no end. In fact, Veronica had used Jellybean to impress a male nanny, but he, as well as Jughead, saw right through the scheme and walked out on the snobby Veronica.
Jughead adores his sister, one of the few females, aside from his mother or his grandmother and aunts, that he can live with. Jellybean also worships the ground Jughead walks on. Her favorite thing is one of Jughead's old beanies, that she can't go anywhere without.
She only occasionally appears in the stories and obviously conflicts with reprints of earlier stories stating or implying that Jughead is an only child. Her communication is expressed to the reader through thought balloons, though no one can understand her. Jughead and Jellybean are unusual in the Archie world in that they are two of the few characters who are not "only children". Besides the Jones family, only Betty Cooper has siblings. Betty often baby-sits her with Jughead.
