Candworth

Candworth is the het ship between Candide Sampson and Cinnamon J. Scudworth from the Clone High fandom.

Season 2
LET'S TRY THIS AGAIN

Candide Sampson, working for the newest Secret Board of Shadowy Figures, is informed by them of Scudworth as he was left at the end of the original series. Her instructions are to help the Board successfully unfreeze the original clones to enact Operation Spread Eagle, a secret mission to groom the clones at the school into becoming world leaders powerful enough to take over the world. Candide bursts into Scudworth's office unexpectedly as Scudworth is enjoying a hot coffee. She startles him and he burns his face with the coffee. She introduces herself and informs him that she will be watching over him to ensure Operation Spread Eagle goes smoothly. He is upset at the idea of having a boss, especially one that is a woman, but she interrupts him to tell him that she will also be working directly above his office, with a glass ceiling to watch over him at all times. He objects as a helicopter comes in and installs the glass ceiling. She confronts him about the fact that she has been seeing new clones in the halls that were not approved by the Board, and he confidently tells her that he's been continuing to clone historical figures without the government's permission or knowledge. This concerns her, but she then says that it might not be a bad idea to have extra clones to work with for Operation Spread Eagle. Candide asks Scudworth how the original clones are taking the news that they had been frozen for 20 years, and he says that he had forgotten to tell them at all.

After informing the original clones of the time period via an assembly, Scudworth sits in his office reading up on Operation Spread Eagle as he looks up through the glass ceiling at Candide. She is an immense enjoyer of reptiles and Scudworth is annoyed at the sound of all of her lizards scuttling along the ceiling. Scudworth freaks out and hides under his desk to try to avoid the sounds and Candide's gaze. He tells Butlertron that he can't take the glass ceiling anymore as Candide asks him for the key to the principal bathroom. He pretends to look for it for her as he continues to hide under his desk and tell Butlertron that he won't stand for her bossing him around like that. He says that everything in his office was just right for him and he doesn't like the idea of anyone else coming in and changing things. Butlertron asks if that includes the disgusting state of the bathroom in question.

Later, Scudworth goes into the bathroom to see that his worst fears have been realized: Candide has completely taken over the bathroom with her products and style. He is furious and tells Butlertron to bring him his sombrero, which he wears to use to hide himself from Candide's gaze to open a secret safe in his office that contains dynamite. He tells Butlertron that he's going to get Candide back for trying to get into his head by doing the same to her. He plans to plant the dynamite in the bathroom disguised as a candle. However, as he goes to plant his dynamite, he finds that Candide has planted her own dynamite in the same way, but he thinks that Butlertron did it at first. He also notices razor blades in the bar soap and a harpoon in the toilet, and then realizes that Candide planted all of the traps. He is flattered and smitten by the idea of Candide trying to kill him, and he looks up at her through the ceiling as she feeds a cockroach to one of her snakes with her teeth. Scudworth then realizes that he's wearing a pearl necklace and the necklace blows up, another Candide plant. The bathroom seems completely destroyed, but Scudworth is now in love.

SLEEPOVER

Candide is Joan's new foster mother after Toots, Joan's previous foster grandpa, died while she was frozen. Joan asks Candide if she can go to a sleepover with Frida and Harriet, and Candide is interested because a sleepover is where one tells all their secrets. She has a plan to rig a camera in the room the three will have a sleepover in to capture all of their secrets, as well as dose them with her own truth serum to get more secrets out of them. She proposes this plan to The Secret Board of Shadowy Figures in Scudworth's office as Butlertron is seen packing for some kind of trip. The Board likes her idea, as they can use whatever secrets they get to blackmail the clones to continue with Operation Spread Eagle. She tells the Board about dosing the girls with her truth serum as Scudworth offers to help her, cancelling his road trip with Butlertron that the robot had been packing for.

Outside of the house where Harriet, Frida and Joan are having their sleepover, Candide, Scudworth and Butlertron are in a mobile pet euthanasia truck monitoring the sleepover through a teddy bear with cameras in it floating outside of the window. Candide has been watching the sleepover and has left Scudworth and Butlertron to mix the alcoholic drinks with the truth serum to give to the girls. She turns back to them to tell them that the girls are about to play Never Have I Ever and that it's time for the drinks. Scudworth and Butlertron have mixed up which drinks have the truth serum and which do not. Candide gets angry and Butlertron says that the only way to figure out which drinks are which is to drink them and see if they start telling the truth. The drinks they drink all have the serum in them and they start telling each other embarrassing truths. Scudworth's truth is that he's attracted to Candide because she reminds him of his cold and distant mother. Candide's truth is that she dreamt that she was carrying Butlertron's baby because she just wants to be a mother. Butlertron's truth is that he tried having sex with the office coffee machine. Because they couldn't figure out which drinks had truth serum, Candide, Scudworth and Butlertron were unable to get any of Frida, Harriet and Joan's secrets. The three then took a lie serum to sober them up and prepare them for the follow-up call with The Secret Board the next day. They tell the Board that the plan went exactly as planned and they didn't get sidetracked. Candide murmurs to Scudworth that he's really good at his job.

Fanon
Candworth is a classic showcase of the Amazon Chaser trope, where a man actively seeks out a woman who is stronger and more domineering than him because that is what he is attracted to. Candworth is an extremely rare pairing despite it's semi-canonicity, with no fan fictions on AO3 or Wattpad written for the ship. Tumblr features more fan content with the pairing through screenshots and fan art. The pairing is usually seen alongside or in direct opposition to Scudlertron, the ship between Scudworth and Butlertron. More fan art featuring Candworth on Tumblr can be seen tagged under Candide's character tag rather than the Candworth tag.

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