Abe & Frida

Abe & Frida is the friendship between Abe Lincoln and Frida Kahlo from the Clone High fandom.

Season 2
ANXIOUS TIMES AT CLONE HIGH

Abe watches from afar as Joan and JFK interact, and JFK gives Joan a huge necklace with their ship name on it, JoanFK, as a token of his love. Frida is next to Abe spray-painting a mural of Gandhi on the wall as he says that he can see that Joan isn't happy with JFK's necklace. He also says that he wants Joan to be happy at all costs, since he's in love with her. He begins spiraling into anxiety, and Frida leaves while he's stuck in his head about the idea of never being able to be with Joan. He then calls out for her, but he can't find her.

To induce stress in the students to see who will collapse under the future pressure of Operation Spread Eagle, Candide unleashes a creature called the Heebie-Jeebie, which she claims is an anti-stress mascot. Abe discovers, however, that this creature feeds on stress and anxiety and follows and terrorizes all clones who start feeling visibly anxious about something. Abe spends the night with Frida to try to keep relaxed to avoid the Heebie-Jeebie. The two sit in her bath together lit with candles and with cucumbers over their eyes. Abe asks Frida how she stays so relaxed all the time, and she tells him that she just channels her anxieties into her art, since it's more productive. He asks how he can be more relaxed, when the Heebie-Jeebie infiltrates their bath and scares them. They jump out of Frida's window, and she skateboards away from her house with Abe on her shoulders. They grow more anxious as the Heebie-Jeebie catches up to them, and they seek refuge in the school, now closed for the night. When the come in, they find that the rest of the main clones are hiding in the school as well.

SEXY-ED

JFK and Joan break up and Abe gets excited, since he now has a possibility to date Joan. Topher finds out that Abe is attracted to Joan and starts acting strange around him because of it. At their lockers, Abe and Topher discuss how long Abe should wait before asking Joan out. Frida is next to them, and complains to them that neither of them know how to talk to women. As she says this, Cleo comes up to her and Frida starts trying to act cool when Cleo tells her that she had a good time with her over Spring Break, and that she's happy that she's bonded with Frida, since she doesn't bond with many people. Frida says gibberish in response, unable to find her footing in the conversation after being so flustered. Abe notices her nerves and comments on them. He then puts it together that Frida has a crush on Cleo, which is why she's acting so strangely. Abe lightly teases her about it, and Frida shushes him and tries to assure him that she doesn't have a crush, pushing him away. Cleo then not-so-subtly flirts with Frida and asks if she wants to see a lesbian movie with her. Frida is so shocked by the ask that she runs through a wall.

Fanon
There is not much in terms of fan content of this friendship, despite its canonicity. Similar to the issue with JFKonfucius, there are simply not many scenes in the show that depict this friendship. As a result, there are no pieces of fan art and no fan fictions tailored specifically to this dynamic. However, fan art of the show's cast in general sometimes shows interaction or at least solidarity between Frida and Abe. In fan fictions on AO3, Kahlopatra and Tophabe are usually shown together. Although there are no specialized AO3 tags for Abe & Frida, several fan fictions where Kahlopatra and Tophabe are shown together feature interactions between Frida and Cleo and Abe and Topher.

Fandom

 * FAN FICTION