Joan & Candide

Joan & Candide is the family ship between Joan of Arc and Candide Sampson from the Clone High fandom.

Season 2
SLEEPOVER

Joan comes home to her new foster mother, Candide, supposedly preparing her dinner. Candide bitterly says that she is preparing her food because she is legally required to do so. She produces an oily paper bag from the Grassy Knoll from the oven. Joan asks if she can go to a sleepover that night. Candide's face lights up instantly, because of the idea that Joan's sleepover with Frida and Harriet will involve them telling each other their deepest, darkest secrets. She hastily agrees before running out of the door to talk to The Secret Board of Shadowy Figures. At Scudworth's office, Candide tells the Board about her plan to secretly drug the girls with her patented truth serum and then record their secrets in order to blackmail them to continue with Operation Spread Eagle. Unfortunately, this plan never works, as Scudworth, Butlertron and Candide accidentally drink the serum instead of the girls and they embarrassingly tell their secrets to each other.

THE CROWN: JOANCOMING: IT'S A CLEO, CLEO, CLEO, CLEO WORLD

It is Homecoming season at Clone High, and Cleo is campaigning for Homecoming Queen. Joan is annoyed at the idea of a Homecoming Court in general, let alone Cleo being Homecoming Queen. Fed up with her tactics for getting votes from the student body, Joan spreads a rumor that Cleo is a horrible person, which spreads quickly around the school. This results in the Homecoming Queen title unexpectedly going to Joan. Hiding behind the doors in the auditorium, Scudworth, Candide and Butlertron watch the crowning. Candide says that she is very proud of Joan for winning the crown, because the Homecoming Queen crown is secretly an ultra-powerful force for mind-control. She says that she is excited mostly because she will have "the most powerful force in the universe" living with her.

CLONE ALONE

It is the final day of school at Clone High, and Candide, Scudworth and Butlertron have enticed the students with the idea of college. Candide tells the students that there will be an entrance exam for "Clone High College" at lunch for them to take. However, the test is a ploy to get the students together so that Candide can send them off to an undisclosed location for her "Death Maze." The Death Maze is the final component of Operation Spread Eagle, where the clones must traverse a dangerous maze in a limited amount of time. Whoever wins is promised entrance and admittance to college. Joan ends up winning because she goes rogue after being rejected by the main cast of clones for various reasons. She makes it to the end of the Maze just in time, and Candide comes out to greet her. She calls her "foster daughter," and tells Joan to follow her.

Candide takes Joan behind-the-scenes through the secret government facility and explains to her that the college pitch was all a lie, and that Joan would actually be training to operate as the next world leader, puppeted by the government. Joan is shocked and confused at the revelation. Candide tells her that she'll be right by Joan's side through the entire process and tells her that she will love ruling the world. They ride up an escalator to a small room with a screen. Candide tells Joan that all of her friends are alive and well, but they will have their memories wiped of any knowledge of Joan as she moves forward. Joan doesn't like the idea, but Candide frames it as an opportunity for Joan to "fulfill her destiny" and become a "champion." As they talk, Candide moves them out of the way as Scudworth and Butlertron fall from the ceiling with a box of yearbooks in an attempt to try to kill Candide. Joan picks up one of the yearbooks as Candide and Scudworth argue, and she has the idea to go back for her friends. As Candide is yelling at Scudworth, she tells him that he'll never be able to be a good conspirator for the government because he cares about the clones too much. She claims that he should be more like Joan, cold and uncaring. As she says this, Joan knocks her out with the yearbook she was holding, arguing that she does care for others. Joan then grabs Candide's access card and leaves with Scudworth and Butlertron to try to stop the mind-wiping ray that Candide starts.

The three successfully get to the room and shut off the ray when the mind-wipe was over 50% completed. To help her friends regain their memories, Joan plays a CD from the yearbook showing a slideshow of their memories together. The clones all start to remember again, and Joan is about to make up with them when Candide comes stumbling back in, limping and bruised from earlier, when Joan and Scudworth beat her up. She then pulls out her own CD, which she plays for the clones. The CD shows clips of Joan from the Maze, where she rigged traps and hurt her friends and classmates to ensure that she was able to win instead of them.

Fanon
Because Candide is a character unique to the second season, this family dynamic is still on the rise in the minds of fans. Candide is more of a supporting role in the series, as she is seen far less compared to the original cast and even the second generation of main clones. The dynamic is rarely explored in the show beyond Candide viewing Joan is simply a chess piece to move forward in Operation Spread Eagle, so fans have not gravitated to the relationship as much as others. There are currently four fan fictions about Joan and Candide on AO3, and a few pieces of art posted on Tumblr under Candide's character tags.

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Trivia

 * Christa Miller has voiced both of Joan's antagonists in the series: Cleopatra in Season 1 and Candide in Season 2.
 * Candide is Joan's foster mother, but the two have similar character designs. These similarities aid the visual of Joan as the next world leader in the finale, where she is fashioned to look like Candide, down to the thick square-framed glasses and long, slender fingers.