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.

EPISODE TWO: ELECTION BLU-GALOO

Cleo gets emotional after announcing that she will not run for re-election for student body president for the next school year, and walks off dramatically during an event she conducted under the title. Abe tells Joan that he should go console her, but Joan tries to go after him to tell him that Cleo is just acting like that for attention like Abe's. In her frustration, she says that she's so mad at him she could kiss him. He turns back around and asks what she just said. She stumbles on her words and says that she really said she was so mad she could piss glue, trying to convince Abe that it's a common expression that he's just never heard of. Abe then leaves to find Cleo and Gandhi tells Joan that she's stupid for constantly backpedaling on her accidental confessions instead of doubling down and telling Abe how she feels.

At the Grassy Knoll, Joan and Abe sit together at a booth and they discuss the idea of who in the school will be the next class president after Cleo steps down. Abe says that he's the clone of Abraham Lincoln, so he can't run because he feels he's an inadequate leader. Joan proposes that he should run, and that she'll help by running his campaign and helping him focus on the big issues facing the school. He then says that him running for president could get Cleo to like him, and Joan sighs. She knocks their glasses off the table angrily and Abe mistakes her deliberate action as her being clumsy.

JFK and Abe are running against each other for the position of student body president. JFK's speech is first, and he gets a very positive reception from the crowd. Abe is nervously waiting in the wings of the stage with Gandhi and Joan, and Joan assures him that there's nothing to worry about because JFK's speech is full of empty promises. JFK finishes his speech and Abe walks on, with Joan wishing him luck. After he bombs his speech and is shown up by a new school corporate sponsor, Abe and Joan are at Abe's house as he bangs his head on the wall of his room in frustration. Joan assures him that his speech wasn't bad, when Gandhi comes in and tells him that his speech was, in fact, terrible. However, he says that Abe could turn his bad luck around by teaming up with the school's sponsor, X-stream Blu, and having them sponsor his campaign. Abe is about to sign the contract when Joan gets between him and the contract and reminds him that the two of them were supposed to run to cover the really important issues of the school that seem mundane. He ultimately signs the contract against Joan's ideas. He makes a crazy commercial with the X-stream Blu team to help his chances of being elected, and shows it to Joan. She's in shock as he asks if it's too much. She is about to answer as Gandhi bursts in to tell Abe that he's leading in the polls. Cleo then comes in to say that her relationship with JFK is failing and she needs Abe to comfort her because he's leading the polls. Joan is frustrated and watches from afar. She says to herself that all the pictures she has of Abe above her bed will be coming down that night, except for one where he is shirtless.

Angry that Abe is now getting closer to Cleo because he's leading the polls, Joan goes to JFK's house to ask to manage his campaign so he'll start winning over Abe again, resulting in Cleo going back to JFK. JFK agrees and the two make a commercial slandering Abe's name, using photos and videos of Abe that only Cleo had access to. Abe sees that Joan helped JFK with the ad and feels betrayed by her. When Cleo leaves him for JFK when JFK starts leading in the polls again, Abe goes to one of the school docks to think. Joan is sitting on the other dock doing the same thing. Abe is angry with Joan for teaming up with JFK to slander his name so that the former would beat him in the polls. Joan tells Abe that she was only trying to help by protecting him from Cleo, saying that Abe has no idea what he's getting into by chasing after Cleo. He gets up angrily to leave and tells her that he'll win back the vote by doing an extremely dangerous stunt with the help of X-stream Blu at the next debate with JFK.

Abe is about to do his dangerous stunt when Gandhi falls extremely ill from drinking exclusively X-stream Blu, which is made only of pancake batter and blue house paint. Seeing the error of continuing to be sponsored by a terrible corporation, Abe tells the crowd at the debate that he doesn't deserve their votes for supporting the company and trying to sell the student body on a dangerous beverage. The crowd boos him off of the stage and the X-stream Blu spokespeople take back all the money they gave the school for their sponsorship. Joan takes the mic and defends Abe, telling the angry crowd that Abe is still a good person and him standing up for himself even when he's wrong is what would make him a great student president. The crowd cheers in agreement and Cleo comes up to the stage to hold Abe for once again being the crowd favorite. According to Butlertron's applause-o-meter, Abe is then the new class president. Joan tells him that he'll be a great leader, and Abe thanks her. However, a dog then walks onto the stage and gets more applause than Abe, making the dog the new president instead.

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.

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