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.

A.D.D.: THE LAST 'D' STANDS FOR DISORDER

Joan sits with Abe and Gandhi at the lunch table as Gandhi fidgets around and makes a joke of putting fries up his nose, calling it an impression. Joan tells him that it's not an impression because he really is just someone with fries up his nose. Gandhi then takes Joan's retainer out of her mouth and puts it in his own to make fun of Joan, and Abe doubles over laughing. Joan is annoyed at it and takes her retainer back, noting that Gandhi bent the metal bracket. She puts it back in her mouth as Cleo plasters a poster over her advertising her Awareness Fair, where she will be holding an open-mouth kissing booth for anyone interested in paying her to kiss them. Her and JFK have an argument over it and the two storm off. Abe goes to follow Cleo to comfort her and Joan watches from afar with Gandhi, sighing in frustration. As she lets a single tear fall from her eyes, she hears a disembodied voice telling her that God loves her. She asks Gandhi if he said anything, but he shakes his head because he had been stuffing his mouth with straws. She interprets the voice as mirroring the voices her original counterpart heard as part of her claim to fame and she is strangely relieved that she can be like the original Joan of Arc.

Days later, Joan is raving and insane as she has fully adopted the idea that she is hearing voices from divine sources. She paces around Abe and rants about how she hasn't slept in 78 hours and how tired she is as Abe watches over her to see Cleo manning the kissing booth by herself, kissing a long line of older men.

FILM FEST: TEARS OF A CLONE

The school unexpectedly wins a cross-country meet for the first time in the school's history and it results in the students rioting in the streets and destroying most of the school. The next day, Mr. Sheepman sits the clones down and asks if there's anything any of the students do to express themselves that isn't destructive to keep the greater student body from rioting again. Gandhi offers that Joan makes films, which she confirms, and then Abe suggests that he help her and create the first annual Clone High film festival, where students will make their own films and show them to inspire creativity. Sheepman agrees and allows for it to take place.

Later at the Grassy Knoll, Joan and Abe sit at a booth together and Abe shows Joan a poster he designed to promote the film festival. She seems only barely enthused by it. She puts her hands over Abe's on the table and tells him that she's happy that this project will mean them spending more time together. While she's talking, however, Cleo walks by and Abe gets distracted when she comes up to talk to him. Abe is captivated by Cleo's premise for her film and when she leaves, Joan starts crying and gets up to leave the booth. Abe dramatically chases after her to find that she moved a few booths over, curled up and upset. He asks her what's going on, and she says that she doesn't know how to say what she's about to say. Abe tells her that she doesn't have to say anything because he already knows what she'll say. He incorrectly assumes that she's upset because she thinks the film festival idea has gone too far, all because it was inspired by her love for making experimental works and now everyone in school is making a film for the festival. He assures her that the night is still all about her and her films, as well as him. He says that the night will showcase her heart, putting his hand on her chest for effect that makes Joan flustered. He asks if there's anything deep in her heart that she feels she needs to express through film, and she says that she does. She is about to say she loves Abe when he puts his finger over her mouth and shushes her softly, telling her that he wants to see it in her film, not hear it from her directly. He holds the sides of her head and they smile at each other.

After a filming montage showing everyone filming their movies, Joan is finished with her film and holds the tape canister. She says that she's glad that she's finally done with the film that contains all of her feelings for Abe. Abe then walks into the editing room and asks what she was saying. She says that she's finished with her film and that it fully shows her truth. Abe says that he's glad for her, and that she's a good friend. Joan is hurt by him calling her a friend. Abe then explains that the past few days had been hard on him while he balanced working on the festival and still trying to win over Cleo, saying that Joan has been a "pal" through it all. She's hurt again, and he then says that him being with Cleo will never ruin their friendship. Abe walks off then and Joan pushes her film canister into the trash can in a rash move. When Abe comes back into the room, he sees her film in the trash and picks it up, exclaiming that he will make Joan express herself by showing the movie presumably against her wishes. He then walks off while sniffing the canister.

The festival is about to start and Abe is in the wings of the school stage ready to give the opening speech when Joan comes up to him frantically asking why her name is included on the program, after she threw her film away. He says that he found her film and submitted it anyway because he thinks it deserves to be shown. She tells him that the film is too embarrassing to be shown for the both of them and he asks how he could ever be embarrassed by a friend. He says that her film might just change the world and walks off to give the opening speech. She then whispers to herself that her movie changing things is exactly what she fears. Joan tries to get into the production booth manned by Thomas Edison to take her film out, but he doesn't let her.

While presenting each film, a small fire breaks out in the production booth because of the coal-powered projectors, burning everyone else's film except for Joan's, which somehow expanded to be seen in widescreen. Abe tells Joan that this is a sign for the film to be seen over everyone else's. Joan reluctantly agrees and stands to preface the film by saying that it needs no introduction because it should be obvious what it's about. What follows is a deeply experimental and abstract film called "The Truth Wears Side-Burns," about her feelings for Abe. However, it's so esoteric that no one gets it in the theater and Joan is kept from revealing her love for Abe once again. Everyone loves the festival so much that they riot again, destroying the school for a second time. Joan is standing on a hill by herself watching it all happen, and Abe comes up behind her. She notices him and says that she supposes things are different now, implying that he understood her film's message and will treat their relationship differently. However, Abe doesn't understand the film and just hesitantly goes along with telling her that he doesn't care about what the film said. She hugs him and thanks him, saying that her film was the only one that was truly personal at the festival. Abe pushes her away and angrily asks how she didn't understand that Abe's film was just as personal. The film was a blatantly obvious narrative about Abe feeling out of place for being too lanky, where he is portrayed by a giraffe that successfully makes a touchdown as part of the football team and is then beamed up into a spaceship. As the giraffe was beamed up, a little girl in the audience says that she loved the giraffe. Joan asks who the little girl symbolized if the giraffe symbolized Abe. He just tells her good night and walks off, leaving her confused but hopeful.

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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