Candworth

Candworth is the het ship between Candide Sampson and Cinnamon J. Scudworth from the Clone High fandom.

Season 2
LET'S TRY THIS AGAIN

Candide Sampson, working for the newest Secret Board of Shadowy Figures, is informed by them of Scudworth as he was left at the end of the original series. Her instructions are to help the Board successfully unfreeze the original clones to enact Operation Spread Eagle, a secret mission to groom the clones at the school into becoming world leaders powerful enough to take over the world. Candide bursts into Scudworth's office unexpectedly as Scudworth is enjoying a hot coffee. She startles him and he burns his face with the coffee. She introduces herself and informs him that she will be watching over him to ensure Operation Spread Eagle goes smoothly. He is upset at the idea of having a boss, especially one that is a woman, but she interrupts him to tell him that she will also be working directly above his office, with a glass ceiling to watch over him at all times. He objects as a helicopter comes in and installs the glass ceiling. She confronts him about the fact that she has been seeing new clones in the halls that were not approved by the Board, and he confidently tells her that he's been continuing to clone historical figures without the government's permission or knowledge. This concerns her, but she then says that it might not be a bad idea to have extra clones to work with for Operation Spread Eagle. Candide asks Scudworth how the original clones are taking the news that they had been frozen for 20 years, and he says that he had forgotten to tell them at all.

After informing the original clones of the time period via an assembly, Scudworth sits in his office reading up on Operation Spread Eagle as he looks up through the glass ceiling at Candide. She is an immense enjoyer of reptiles and Scudworth is annoyed at the sound of all of her lizards scuttling along the ceiling. Scudworth freaks out and hides under his desk to try to avoid the sounds and Candide's gaze. He tells Butlertron that he can't take the glass ceiling anymore as Candide asks him for the key to the principal bathroom. He pretends to look for it for her as he continues to hide under his desk and tell Butlertron that he won't stand for her bossing him around like that. He says that everything in his office was just right for him and he doesn't like the idea of anyone else coming in and changing things. Butlertron asks if that includes the disgusting state of the bathroom in question.

Later, Scudworth goes into the bathroom to see that his worst fears have been realized: Candide has completely taken over the bathroom with her products and style. He is furious and tells Butlertron to bring him his sombrero, which he wears to use to hide himself from Candide's gaze to open a secret safe in his office that contains dynamite. He tells Butlertron that he's going to get Candide back for trying to get into his head by doing the same to her. He plans to plant the dynamite in the bathroom disguised as a candle. However, as he goes to plant his dynamite, he finds that Candide has planted her own dynamite in the same way, but he thinks that Butlertron did it at first. He also notices razor blades in the bar soap and a harpoon in the toilet, and then realizes that Candide planted all of the traps. He is flattered and smitten by the idea of Candide trying to kill him, and he looks up at her through the ceiling as she feeds a cockroach to one of her snakes with her teeth. Scudworth then realizes that he's wearing a pearl necklace and the necklace blows up, another Candide plant. The bathroom seems completely destroyed, but Scudworth is now in love.

SLEEPOVER

Candide is Joan's new foster mother after Toots, Joan's previous foster grandpa, died while she was frozen. Joan asks Candide if she can go to a sleepover with Frida and Harriet, and Candide is interested because a sleepover is where one tells all their secrets. She has a plan to rig a camera in the room the three will have a sleepover in to capture all of their secrets, as well as dose them with her own truth serum to get more secrets out of them. She proposes this plan to The Secret Board of Shadowy Figures in Scudworth's office as Butlertron is seen packing for some kind of trip. The Board likes her idea, as they can use whatever secrets they get to blackmail the clones to continue with Operation Spread Eagle. She tells the Board about dosing the girls with her truth serum as Scudworth offers to help her, cancelling his road trip with Butlertron that the robot had been packing for.

Outside of the house where Harriet, Frida and Joan are having their sleepover, Candide, Scudworth and Butlertron are in a mobile pet euthanasia truck monitoring the sleepover through a teddy bear with cameras in it floating outside of the window. Candide has been watching the sleepover and has left Scudworth and Butlertron to mix the alcoholic drinks with the truth serum to give to the girls. She turns back to them to tell them that the girls are about to play Never Have I Ever and that it's time for the drinks. Scudworth and Butlertron have mixed up which drinks have the truth serum and which do not. Candide gets angry and Butlertron says that the only way to figure out which drinks are which is to drink them and see if they start telling the truth. The drinks they drink all have the serum in them and they start telling each other embarrassing truths. Scudworth's truth is that he's attracted to Candide because she reminds him of his cold and distant mother. Candide's truth is that she dreamt that she was carrying Butlertron's baby because she just wants to be a mother. Butlertron's truth is that he tried having sex with the office coffee machine. Because they couldn't figure out which drinks had truth serum, Candide, Scudworth and Butlertron were unable to get any of Frida, Harriet and Joan's secrets. The three then took a lie serum to sober them up and prepare them for the follow-up call with The Secret Board the next day. They tell the Board that the plan went exactly as planned and they didn't get sidetracked. Candide murmurs to Scudworth that he's really good at his job.

ANXIOUS TIMES AT CLONE HIGH

Scudworth and Candide come up with the idea of pre-midterms as a way to manufacture a mental health crisis among students to see who is mentally strongest. At their anti-anxiety assembly, Candide tells Scudworth that this pre-midterms stress is a good start to the next leg of Operation Spread Eagle, to which he mentions to her that he was the one who came up with the idea of pre-midterms. She tells him that he's pathetic when he begs for credit for ideas, and he asks if she's using the word "pathetic" in a positive or negative way. She ignores him and tells him to start on the penultimate part of the pre-midterms stress week, the Broad Daylight Swimsuit Dance. She tells him that she wants air conditioning turned up so that nipples are visible as she brushes her finger down Scudworth's nose. She leaves to give her speech for the assembly. Scudworth pets Butlertron and tells him that Candide's passionless, confident demeanor is endearing to him. He lays over Butlertron, in love. Butlertron says that Scudworth likes his women cold and bitter, like his coffee.

Candide busts confidently into Scudworth's office to tell him that her plan to introduce a stress-inducing mascot is working, making each student more on-edge. Scudworth tells her that her passion for the project is contagious, and he suggests that the two talk about their other passions. She tells him that there's no time because she has to go do something else to stress the students out. She leaves and Scudworth asks Butlertron sadly why Candide can't be attracted to him. Butlertron suggests, annoyed, that Scudworth just acknowledge that Candide isn't interested in him and move on. Scudworth disagrees and says that he just needs to try a different approach. He flips his chalkboard to the side that says "How to Get Candide to Love Me Back," and proposes that he make himself seem more pitiful and pathetic in order to get her to take pity on him and get closer to him. He recounts a story in the past of how that worked when his father passed away. In order to recreate a similar circumstance, he comes up with the idea that he manufacture a story that he has a bunny named Biscuit that he cares for a lot and that he's had for most of his life.

The next time Candide walks into his office, Scudworth shows her the bunny and tells her the fake story he made up about their history, emphasizing that he has a strong emotional attachment to the bunny and that it would be terrible if something bad happened to it. She says that she hates warm-blooded animals while patting her shoulder lizard as she asks if Scudworth has made any progress on planning the Broad Daylight Swimsuit Dance. He continues to push that he would hate for something tragic to happen to this bunny, but she's walked off and is not paying attention. Scudworth then tells Butlertron his plan to sneak the bunny into Candide's office while she's at lunch for the creature to be eaten by her reptiles. He then believes that Candide will see his dismay and take him out that night for a date. Butlertron is still annoyed at the fact that Scudworth is focused on wooing Candide. Unfortunately, Scudworth's plan fails because his bunny kills and rips up all of Candide's reptiles instead. Candide sees the massacre and cries over the bodies of her reptiles. Butlertron offers to get a garbage bag to clean up the mess.

At the Broad Daylight Swimsuit Dance after pre-midterms, Scudworth apologizes to Candide about her reptiles. She tells him that there's no time to mourn them because they need to continue to focus on Operation Spread Eagle. She was successfully able to program some clones to do her bidding, and Scudworth tells her that the programming was really cool. He asks if she wants to go to a candlelight dinner with him to celebrate her good work, and she scoffs and tells him that he's pitiful. He celebrates to Butlertron at accomplishing his goal of having Candide find him more pathetic.

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

Candide finds an ancient mind control crown and proposes to The Board of Shadowy Figures that they use the crown in the upcoming Homecoming Court crowning to control whichever student is voted Homecoming Queen. The Board loves the idea, and Candide falsely assures the Board that Scudworth has already planned everything accordingly. This results in all potential blame for the project being a failure falling on Scudworth. Meanwhile, Cleo is campaigning hard for Homecoming Queen, and Joan is annoyed by it. She starts a rumor that results in Joan being crowned Homecoming Queen instead of Cleo. Watching from outside of the auditorium, Candide tells Scudworth and Butlertron how proud she is that her foster daughter will be the one chosen to be controlled by the crown. Scudworth then reminds her that she already told the Board that he had everything planned, meaning that he would get all the credit, and she is annoyed.

When Joan ends up giving the crown up to Cleo because she feels bad, Cleo uses the crown's power to mind-control the students to do her bidding. Candide, Scudworth and Butlertron run onto the school field as Scudworth exclaims how much of a disaster the situation is. Candide snarkily reminds him that she told the Board it was all on him when something went wrong, stressing him out further. Butlertron tells them to stop bickering so they can figure out a way to get the crown from Cleo before she takes over the entire school. As Scudworth and Candide try to discuss a plan, Cleo zaps them with her mind-control beam and turns them into Cleo-fied versions of themselves and announcers for the Homecoming float parade. At the later Homecoming dance, Candide and Scudworth are still Cleo-fied announcers. They talk about how cool Cleo is as she dances on her own. Joan is able to get the crown from Cleo and restore the school, and the restored Candide and Scudworth scurry out of the hall to avoid having to clean up and answer to the Board about the incident.

SOME TALKING BUT MOSTLY SONGS

Harriet wants to attract the attention of a talent scout for her favorite show, so she comes up with a musical production called "Twister: The Game: The Musical." Candide angrily asks Scudworth from her glass ceiling if he heard about the production, because it just resulted in a messy opening number in the halls. He thinks the musical is a fun idea, but Candide says that they'll end up with "a Footloose situation" if they let the musical continue, and asks if Scudworth can do anything write. He bites back that he obviously can, since he created Clone High all on his own. She tells him to get a hold on the situation before walking away. Scudworth asks Butlertron what she was saying because he had been distracted by her charm. Butlertron recounts her requests to him and Scudworth asks what they could do to handle the situation. Butlertron suggests that Scudworth be good at his job for once, and Scudworth hears instead that he must have a weaker scapegoat by his side to make him look stronger. He calls for Topher Bus from the hall and offers him a part of his own.

Scudworth's master plan turns out to be staging a fight in the halls between Butlertron in a costume and Topher. He then stops the fight dramatically to announce that he's the principal of the school, and it's his declaration that theatrics be confined to the school auditorium instead of the halls. Candide watches from afar and talks to her lizard about the irony of Scudworth's plan to keep theatrics out of the halls by putting on a theatrics performance himself. Candide says the sight is nauseating and continues to watc. She rolls her eyes and comes up to him. He tells her that everything is under control, and she tells him that he's stupid, because he's trashed the halls in the same way Candide was trying to avoid. She tells him that her opinion of him continues to sink lower, despite her consistent belief that it's always as low as possible. She pokes him on the forehead to hammer her point home and walks off. In his frustration, Scudworth accidentally stabs himself in the leg with a switchblade he took from Topher in the performance.

Joan and Harriet begin to clash over each of their own ideas for Harriet's musical. Joan goes as far as to rewrite most of Harriet's work to fit her own ideas, thinking that such an action is what Harriet would want. When Harriet sees the changes, however, she freaks out and ends up causing a chain-reaction that destroys Joan's theater set-up and sets some of the auditorium on fire. Scudworth watches from outside in the hall and grows angrier as more gets destroyed. He finally bursts in and yells at them, telling them that he was trying to be supportive, but his being supportive only further encouraged destruction. Candide walks by as he's yelling and stops to listen. He finishes his rant by saying that the musical is no longer supported by the school and must end because he's banning all performances from the school. He storms off and Candide smiles after him.

Later, at the Grassy Knoll, Scudworth eats a quiche dejectedly with Butlertron when Candide comes up to his booth. She tells him that she hates to say that she's happy that he showed some initiative and backbone in banning the musical. He's smitten and tells her that it means a lot to him that she hates to say his praise. He offers that they "quiche and make up," and she is about to say something when they hear that the students are still performing the musical, just on the roof of the Grassy Knoll. She takes her praises back and yells at Scudworth, telling him that he doesn't have any backbone after all and that he can "quiche her respect goodbye." She dumps the quiche on his head and storms off. He says that her yelling is sexy, before screaming from being burned by the quiche.

SAVED BY THE KNOLL

Candide, Scudworth and Butlertron leave together on a business trip with The Secret Board of Shadowy Figures. Candide originally tricks Scudworth into believing that he needed to give a presentation before they reveal that it's just a drinking and partying trip. Scudworth and Candide are playing beer pong at the party. Candide tells Scudworth that he may not be as bad as she originally thought he was. He celebrates and says that he doesn't mind these business trips. On the way home days later, Candide checks her phone to see hundreds of missed calls from Joan. Scudworth tries to confront her about her saying that he wasn't as bad as she thought, but she deflects by saying that she never remembers anything from their business trips. He tries to push further but she starts snoring. With his arm around Butlertron, he tells him that he's making progress with her.

SEXY-ED

After Spring Break, Joan and JFK break up. While they hold a funeral for their relationship, Candide and Scudworth call with The Secret Board of Shadowy Figures to say that Joan and JFK are dating and could be a good power couple for Operation Spread Eagle. The Board says that successfully having Joan and JFK as a couple to rule the world could earn both Candide and Scudworth a spot on the Board themselves. Scudworth says that him and Candide might be the newest power couple, and Candide is disgusted. Butlertron comes up to them with a phone saying that Joan and JFK broke up as Candide and Scudworth hang up on the Board. They freak out and try to devise a plan to somehow get the two back together. Candide comes up with the idea of giving the school mandatory sexual education classes that may put Joan and JFK in the mood for romance.

The sex-ed teacher that Scudworth hires ends up dying by orgasm after trying to have sex with Abe, and none of the sex-ed material is encouraging Joan and JFK to get back together. Scudworth, Candide and Butlertron convene to try to figure out a way to get the couple back as they literally sweep the dead sex-ed teacher under a rug. Candide has the idea to use Harriet and Confucius's couple party to bring JFK and Joan closer together. She tells the students over the speaker to not go the party, so that they will want to go just to defy authority. It works, and JFK and Joan go to the party. However, they do not end up getting back together, and Scudworth and Candide watch from a bush as Joan officially rejects JFK and tells him that they need to see other people. Walking back into the party, Scudworth asks Candide what to do now that there's no way that Joan and JFK are getting back together. Scudworth tries to break his saxophone on his knee but ends up completely snapping his leg in half. Butlertron tries to fix his leg as Candide watches and tells Scudworth that his plan was stupid and was never going to work in the first place, even though she came up with idea of sexual education. She calls him worthless as he cries about his broken leg, and she calls for the party to be shut down because it didn't work, either.

CLONE ALONE

It is the final day of Clone High, and the students are gathered at the auditorium for yearbook signing. Scudworth, Candide and Butlertron prepare a small musical number for the students explaining the joys and wonders of college to influence the students to want to go to college. At the end of the number, Candide tells the students that there will be an entrance exam for the students to get into college at the cafeteria at lunch and the students run out to prepare. The three then discuss their jazz hands from the performance. Candide then tells Scudworth that they need to talk. He believes that he is getting a promotion for coming up with the idea of the entrance exam and musical number, but Candide says that she got him a present. When he opens the box, he sees that it is full of his personal belongings from his office. She tells him that he is fired and walks off, and Scudworth bursts into tears. Butlertron tries to console him before Candide comes back to tell Butlertron that he is also fired.

Candide's entrance exam turns out to be a trap to send the clones to an undisclosed location to participate in the real test, the "Death Maze." The maze is to whittle down the clones eligible for Operation Spread Eagle, as well as a source of entertainment for The Secret Board of Shadowy Figures. Scudworth sees that he's still on the invite list for the maze watch party, being held at a sports bar. Butlertron poses the idea that the two go even though Scudworth is fired. Scudworth takes Butlertron's comment of coming in wearing "killer outfits" to mean that they come in with concealed weapons to kill Candide, who will be at the event.

At the event, the Board watches the competition just like a sports event. Scudworth and Butlertron walk in and Scudworth confidently chugs his drink as one of the members of the Board congratulate Candide on the achievement. Scudworth spits his drink out on Butlertron as he is offended by the idea that the Board believes that Candide acted in organizing the event alone, since he was the main mastermind behind it. Candide has brought back the nemeses of Scudworth and Butlertron to be included in the Death Maze event, which frustrates them both. Scudworth says that he needs to kill Candide for the disrepect. The two opt to kill her via poison dart. Unfortunately, somehow Scudworth and Butlertron are able to kill literally every other member of the Board except for Candide. She walks off to meet with Joan, who has successfully completed the maze on her own by defeating all of her classmates in a feral rage.

While Candide and Joan talk about the endgame of Operation Spread Eagle, which consists of Joan becoming the next world leader and the other clones having their memories erased, Scudworth and Butlertron try to kill Candide by dropping a box of yearbooks on her. She, however, anticipates their attack and moves her and Joan out of the way as the box falls. Scudworth and Butlertron fall down with it, with Scudworth stuck in an air vent. Candide says that their attack was "right on cue," and explains to Scudworth that she knew that telling him he was fired would make him come after her, and his bumbling nature would ensure that he accidentally killed everyone else but her, all the people standing in her way of making Operation Spread Eagle hers. Scudworth is shocked that he is not actually fired.

Joan looks with Butlertron at one of the yearbooks and laments on the fact that she had forgotten many of the memories captured in the book. Meanwhile, Candide tells Scudworth (still stuck in the air vent) that he'll never make it in their business because he cares too much. He emphasizes that he does care too much, because he sees all of the clones, old and new, as his creations and children. Candide pushes him over and tells him that he should be more like how Joan acted in the Death Maze, less focused on friends and only passionate about getting to the end of something, no matter the cost. Joan looks over as her name is mentioned. As Candide continues to ramble about how Joan is heartless, Joan hits her in the head with the yearbook, knocking her to the ground. Butlertron helps Scudworth up as Joan takes Candide's access card to go save her friends, about to have their memories erased. Scudworth takes off the air vent and drops it on Candide's body for good measure, before him and Butlertron follow Joan. With what little strength she has left, Candide activates the mind-wiping ray.

Fanon
Candworth is a classic showcase of the Amazon Chaser trope, where a man actively seeks out a woman who is stronger and more domineering than him because that is what he is attracted to. Candworth is an extremely rare pairing despite it's semi-canonicity, with only one fan fiction on AO3 written for the ship. Tumblr features more fan content with the pairing through screenshots and fan art. The pairing is usually seen alongside or in direct opposition to Scudlertron, the ship between Scudworth and Butlertron. More fan art featuring Candworth on Tumblr can be seen tagged under Candide's character tag rather than the specialized Candworth tag.

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