Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc is a character from the Clone High fandom.

Character
Joan of Arc is a self-described "angst-ridden goth girl" in response to the immense power and sainthood of her clone mother. She is one of the five main original clones that were frozen in 2003 and thawed out 20 years later in 2023 to be used again by the government for Operation Spread Eagle. Despite keeping to herself and preferring to be alone for much of the original Clone High series, Joan connects deeply with more characters in the series reboot. She is the main protagonist in both series and therefore has more screen time to explore friendship and family dynamics with other characters, as well as the occasional romantic dynamic.

Canon

 * JFK

Joan and JFK interact very little in the original series until the finale, where the two sleep together on prom night, mostly out of spite on Joan's part when Abe never asks her to the prom or allows her to confess her long-term feelings for him. Joan and JFK are frozen in bed together when the original series ends. When they are thawed out in the reboot, JFK asks Joan to be his girlfriend. She thinks about it, but eventually agrees. The two date for most of the new second season until Joan breaks things off when she believes JFK to be too focused on sex rather than romance. JFK is devastated for the remainder of the season from the breakup.


 * Abe Lincoln

Joan has a crush on Abe for the entirety of the original series, and she is comically never able to confess her feelings for him because he is so oblivious to her advances that he interrupts her whenever she tries to confess. The two are close friends, and in the finale episode of the original series it is revealed that Abe also has feelings for Joan that he has been unaware of until he is faced with sleeping with Cleo on prom night. However, by the time Abe tries to confess to Joan, she has slept with JFK. He tries once again to confess as they are all frozen, and his mouth is frozen before he is able to say that he loves her. In the reboot, this is used as a meta joke, as The Secret Board of Shadowy Figures is excited to thaw the original clones out partially to see if Abe and Joan will get together when he confesses to her. Unfortunately for Abe, the second season of the show features a role reversal, where Abe is now stuck trying to confess his feelings to Joan while she is happily dating JFK, mirroring Joan trying to confess her feelings for Abe when he was too busy dating Cleo in the original series. Near the end of the second season, however, Joan and JFK break up and then Abe and Joan secretly pine for each other in the aftermath of the Joan and JFK breakup without ever getting together before the season finale.


 * Candide Sampson

Candide is Joan's new foster mother, after Joan's foster grandfather, Toots, died while she was frozen. Candide is also the new superintendent of Clone High, sent by The Secret Board of Shadowy Figures to monitor the school to ensure their Operation Spread Eagle goes smoothly. Despite admitting under a truth serum that she secretly wants to be a mother, Candide and Joan don't have much of an on-screen relationship. In the moments that they do interact, Candide is only proud or amicable towards Joan when the clone can do something for her or improve her image with the Board. The two interact most in the Season 2 finale, when Joan is chosen as the candidate for the second phase of Operation Spread Eagle, where she will be groomed into becoming the next world leader and will allow the Board to control the world through her. Candide explains the process to her, as well as tells her that she will be by Joan's side through it all.

Fanon

 * Cleopatra Smith

Joan and Cleo are enemies in the original series, with Cleo acting as a direct foil to Joan by being popular, focused on appearance, and promiscuous, while Joan is an outcast, artistic, and withdrawn. When a massive storm hits Exclamation, Joan and Toot's house is destroyed, and they are temporarily homeless before Toots is able to get them to move in with Cleo and her foster mother, as Toots and Cleo's foster mother have been dating. From then, Cleo and Joan are forced to be together as they share a house and even a room. The two constantly feud in the original about Abe, because Joan has a crush on him and Cleo is actually dating him. In the reboot, Cleo is seen far less than the original, and in the episode "The Crown: Joancoming: It's A Cleo, Cleo, Cleo, Cleo World," the two put aside their rivalry and then become friends.


 * Butlertron

Joan and Butlertron have a few moments of connection in both series, as Butlertron acts as a parental guidance figure for Joan in times of emotional turmoil. Butlertron is the vice principal of Clone High alongside Principal Scudworth, both of whom also created all of the clones in the high school together. Therefore, despite not being her foster father, Butlertron does count as a father figure for Joan when she needs guidance in the series. This rings especially true in Season 2 episode "For Your Consideration," when Butlertron recounts his life story to Joan, that his purpose in life has always been to find a group of people he can call a family, which he explains that he found in Scudworth and the clones, especially Joan.

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