Arcoln

Arcoln is the het ship between Abe Lincoln and Joan of Arc from the Clone High fandom.

Season 1
ESCAPE TO BEER MOUNTAIN: A ROPE OF SAND

Joan walks to Clone High on the first day of the new school year with Abe and Gandhi. She mentions that Abe has grown much taller since she last saw him and he agrees. In the school, Joan tries dropping the hint that she wants to date more this school year, and Abe agrees to tell her that he wants to date Cleopatra for her looks and the joke of her "commitment to community service." Joan asks why he wants to date someone new instead of an "old friend," someone that she claims he takes for granted. However, Abe's sights are set on Cleo and he ignores Joan's not-so-subtle hints. Cleo comes up to Abe to say hello and he freezes up in awe. He tries to lean against the glass trophy case behind him and the pressure he puts on it shatters it and cuts his arm. Joan tries to tell him that he is bleeding but he ignores her in favor of paying attention to Cleo. Joan sighs and walks off, telling Abe that she'll wait for him by the gauze for his arm. Later, in Mr. Sheepman's class, Joan recalls Abe's mention that he admired Cleo's commitment to community service and makes an announcement to the class that she is opening and maintaining a teen mental health crisis hotline and wants to find volunteers. Everyone disappears from the class as soon as she asks.

At the Grassy Knoll, Abe sits with Joan and Gandhi at a booth and says that he needs to find a way to get into JFK's party after he was uninvited by JFK because of his attraction to Cleo. Abe claims that a girl is interested in him and he shouldn't ignore it, implying that girl is Cleo. Joan, however, tries to then say that she wants Abe, but he thinks that she was in the middle of a sentence and she stutters and gives up. He dismisses it and continues to say that he is going to walk over to JFK and Cleo and ask JFK to be reinvited to the party if he brings beer. JFK agrees and leaves with Cleo.

At gym class, Joan tells Abe that she has the night off from the hotline and asks if he wants to carpool with her to JFK's party, under the tentative guise that the carpool is just to save gas. The gym teacher calls Joan out for talking and sends her to the principal's office. At the party later that night, Joan comes out to talk to Abe on the balcony of the house, saying that he achieved his goal in bringing the beer and having everyone humiliate themselves while drunk. Abe reveals to her that he was only able to get non-alcoholic beer because he couldn't lie to the clerk, and that he's convinced everyone will be able to tell it's fake beer. However, seeing that people still are acting like it's real, Joan tells him that he'll be fine. Abe then asks if Joan has ever felt like she liked someone so much she was afraid to say something stupid, and she blurts out something stupid to him as a subtle affirmative response to his question.

Joan sits by herself on a swing away from the party, depressed. Butlertron rolls up to her and asks if she wants to talk about what's making her so sad. She tells him that he wouldn't understand, but he tells her that he thinks she should tell Abe how she feels about him. She asks what the point would be of such a gesture, and Butlertron tells her that perhaps Abe is just worried about ruining their friendship. She says that Abe may just be waiting for her to make the first move and she perks up. She hugs Butlertron and thanks him, telling him that she loves him. He tells her not to mention it. As she walks back, she sees that Cleo and Abe are kissing, and she watches in shock and horror.

Cleo, conflicted on choosing between Abe and JFK to date, calls Joan's teen crisis hotline for advice. Joan calls Abe a sensitive and caring person and insists that Cleo go after JFK when she finds that she is advising Cleo. However, when she sees Abe upset about Cleo, Joan buckles and tells Cleo to go for Abe instead before hanging up. Gandhi tells Joan that she just made a huge mistake telling Cleo that, and in response Joan takes his belt off of his pants and lets his pants fall down.

Joan watches from a cop car as she's arrested for underage drinking as Cleo almost leads Abe away from the party. However, Abe is focused on Joan and Gandhi getting arrested and pulls away from Cleo to tell the police officer to let the two go free. He explains that there was no underage drinking because he brought non-alcoholic beer to the party

Fanon
This ship is often paired with JFCleo, LinCleo and JoanFK because of the love triangle between Abe, Cleo and Joan in Season 1, with the added love complication of JFK in both the final episode of the first season and Season 2. The ship draws the audience in because one is always pining for the other while the other is distracted by their love for someone else (Joan pining for Abe in Season 1 while he goes after Cleo, and Abe pining for Joan in Season 2 while she goes after JFK). Despite the lasting pining through the two seasons for each other, there are currently only 11 fan fictions under Arcoln on AO3, making it a rarepair.

Fandom
FAN FICTION