JFPonce

JFPonce is the slash ship between JFK and Ponce de Leon from the Clone High fandom.

Season 1
LITTER KILLS: LITTERALLY

Ponce is introduced for the first time in this episode, as JFK's best friend. They stand together in the park with their arms around each other's shoulders as Julius Caesar says that the two are never apart. Ponce steps on a ketchup packet on the ground in front of him to squirt ketchup on Caesar's face and everyone laughs. JFK shows a tattoo he has on his right arm of him and Ponce's faces, reading "Two Peas in a Pod." He reiterates that the two are best friends, until death does them part. They high-five and Catherine the Great takes a polaroid photo of them, which Ponce takes to keep in his jacket. JFK gets his attention to push over a full trashcan and Ponce in turn throws his plastic cup on the ground and they enjoy littering. Catherine the Great says that littering is cool as JFK goes up to Cleopatra and the two have an awkward exchange because they recently broke up and Cleo is now dating Abe Lincoln. Ponce walks up and JFK makes fun of Abe, saying that he probably likes throwing his trash away and not littering like everyone else. Later, Ponce comes up to Abe and Cleo in the hall and tells Abe not to worry about JFK because he's almost over Cleo. Abe says that JFK is lucky to have a friend like Ponce, and says that Ponce should tell JFK how much he appreciates him. Ponce says that he will.

Walking on the street eating bags of chocolate together, Ponce tells JFK that he's been thinking a lot about life lately. JFK says that he agrees, as long as he means "sex" when he says "life." Ponce goes on to say that life is very short, and that people have to live life like every day was their last. He says that he wants to make sure that everyone around him knows how much they mean to him. JFK tells him that feelings are for girls, and Ponce tells him that he's detached. He says that he wants to get in touch with himself, in his heart. JFK tells him that he doesn't know who he even is anymore, calling him a "sissy broad." Ponce tells him to calm down, and JFK tells him that he is calm as they comically start eating the chocolates faster at the same time. Ponce tells him that he's trying to tell JFK something before it's too late. JFK says that it's already too late, that the real Ponce is dead to him. Ponce says that he hates JFK, and crumples the polaroid of them from his jacket in front of JFK's face, throwing it on the ground between them. JFK throws his empty bag of chocolates down over the picture and stomps off. Ponce says that he didn't mean it as Joan of Arc comes in to tell him that everyone at school is littering because he does it. He asks, annoyed, if it matters, since littering isn't going to kill him. A breeze then blows different assorted trash onto Ponce, trapping his hands and cutting his face, before a juice box stabs him in the throat and one of the empty bags of chocolates gets over his head, and he drowns in the juice box juice and blood mixture coming from his head that he hit while falling, dying in the school courtyard unexpectedly. At the funeral, JFK is sobbing into his hands as he wears Ponce's pants. JFK comes up to give a speech, saying that Ponce left him the pants he was wearing. JFK is a wreck at the funeral, pulling Ponce up from the open casket and threatening to punch him if he doesn't wake up. He does punch him and he falls out of the casket. JFK holds his body and exclaims that he just killed his dead best friend before putting him back into the casket and climbing in himself, saying that he will sleep in there next to him. He quickly jumps out as he realizes that he was just laying with a dead man. He runs out of the funeral screaming.

Following the funeral, JFK spends all of his time crying and praying in the school chapel, occasionally accusing God of taking Ponce away from him. After a bout of crying in his room at night, JFK sees a hallucination of a dead Ponce telling him to calm down because it wasn't his fault. JFK first thinks he's seeing the dead walking, but Ponce explains that he's just a part of JFK's subconscious. JFK misunderstands and thinks that Ponce is not really dead and asks if he wants to find girls to sleep with together, but Ponce explains that he's just a hallucination. JFK still doesn't understand and thinks that Ponce is a genie. His first wish is to bring Ponce back to life, and Ponce says that the confrontation is frustrating. JFK is sitting on one of the docks by the school watching the sun rise as Abe comes up to him, apologizing for not knowing what to do to help JFK during the difficult time. He says that he doesn't know what else to do but hold him, which he does. JFK weakly tells him to let go, but Abe shushes him and rocks him in his arms. JFK tells him to let go before he punches him, and Abe complies. JFK scoots away from Abe before asking him to hold him again. He cries in his arms and Abe kisses his forehead. JFK tells Abe about how Ponce's last words to him were that he hated him. Abe comforts him by holding his hands and telling him that the last thing Ponce said to him was that JFK was a great guy. JFK is happy and Abe tells him not to let Ponce die in vain, and to use his death as motivation to stop littering, because it's what Ponce would have wanted. JFK argues that Ponce loved littering, but Abe tells him that he probably changed his mind after littering caused his death. JFK tells Abe that Ponce is a "genie" and lives in his head, and Abe looks concerned but doesn't say anything. The school then comes together with JFK, along with some extra help, to successfully clean the school of litter in the name of Ponce.

Fanon
Despite being in only one episode and killed off suddenly, JFK and Ponce's relationship stuck with fans and became popular, especially with fan artists on Tumblr and DeviantArt. It seems as though most of the inspiration for the ship came from JFK's raw emotion after Ponce's death, emotion that JFK would not show again after the episode, and emotion that was not present in his character before.

Fandom
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