Chansaw

Chansaw is the femslash ship between Heather Chandler and Veronica Sawyer from the Heathers fandom.

Heathers (1988)
Veronica is a member of the "Heathers" clique, which is run by Heather Chandler. Veronica is shown to not like her friends very much, including Chandler, writing about them in her diary at the beginning of the film. When Heather Chandler says that she teaches people how to fly, Veronica sarcastically replies "You're beautiful". Veronica and Chandler are later seen in the cafeteria, where Veronica is forced to ask an asinine question for the weekly lunchtime poll. Veronica asks if they can try talking to other people, and Chandler replies that she's not "Mother Theresa".

Later, the Heathers are seen hanging around at Veronica's house, playing croquet. Veronica and Chandler are planning on going to a college party together that evening. The girls discuss the difference between dating high school boys and dating older men, and Chandler explains that she's giving Veronica her first chance to get in with college guys. Before the party, the pair stop by the 7-11. Chandler calls out to Veronica, demanding BQ corn nuts. Inside the shop, Veronica runs into JD. They discuss her friends; JD says he doesn't like them, and Veronica admits she doesn't like them either.

They arrive at the party, and begin drinking. Veronica is paired up with a college guy, Brad, that Chandler knows. However, Veronica is uncomfortable when he tries to get physical with her. and starts to feel ill. She tries to leave the party. Chandler follows her, asking why she's not putting out for Brad. Veronica says she wants to go home as she's feeling sick. Chandler refuses, and then Veronica keels forward and pukes all over Chandler's shoes. This causes Chandler to lose it, telling Veronica that she's going to make her life a living hell come Monday.

Veronica eventually returns home and writes in her diary about how she wishes she could just kill Heather Chandler. JD arrives at her house, sneaking in through her bedroom window. The two have sex, and she explains her situation to him. Veronica says that, before Monday morning, she just wants to get revenge on Chandler by seeing her puke the way that Veronica did that night.

The next morning, JD and Veronica sneak into the Chandler home. Veronica tries to concoct the most disgusting "hangover cure" possible, first suggesting mixing milk and orange juice. JD reaches under the kitchen sink and suggests a bottle of cleaning supplies. Veronica tells JD to stop playing around, because that would kill Chandler. She settles on mixing the milk and orange juice, and pours it into an opaque glass with a lid. JD does the same with his concoction of cleaning supplies. Veronica grabs one of the cups, and brings it to Chandler's room.

Veronica tries to apologize to Chandler, but she doesn't seem impressed. JD offers her the cup and, after a bit of goading, she drinks it. Unfortunately for her, and for Veronica, the wrong cup was grabbed -- Chandler downs the cleaning chemicals in one big gulp. She chokes, lets out a strained "Corn nuts!" and collapses. Veronica begins to panic, saying that she killed her best friend. When JD points out that Heather Chandler was probably closer to her worst enemy, Veronica replies, "Same difference".

In a dream sequence, Veronica encounters Chandler again. They're attending the funeral of Heather Duke, which Chandler calls "pathetic" because she had more attendees. She tells Veronica that the after life is boring, and then tells her its time for dinner; which turns out to be Veronica's mother calling her for dinner in the real world.

Act One
When the Heather's come in during lunch, Veronica tells the audience who they are. When she gets to Heather Chandler, she calls her a mythic bitch. But she's never bothered or harassed, and Veronica would give anything to be like that. In the bathroom, the bell rings and Ms. Flemings is about to give a detention to the Heathers for being late. Veronica then steps forward and gives her a forged Hall Pass for the four of them, which Ms. Flemings accepts. Chandler takes the hall pass when she leaves and compliments the forgery. She asks who Veronica is, and Veronica introduces herself. She asks to sit at their table so that people will assume they tolerate her, which Chandler laughs at. Chandler notices that Veronica has some good bone structure, and grabs Veronica's face as she comes up with a makeover for her.

A few weeks later, Veronica is officially one of the Heather's clique. Chandler calls her over and tells her to forge a letter. Veronica does so and asks who it's for and Chandler tells her that she found out that Ram used to be friend with Martha in kindergarten. She calls over Ram and tells him to give the note to Martha, which Veronica protests. She takes it back and Chandler asks what she's doing. Veronica tells her not to do this to Martha, but Chandler interrupts and asks if they're about to have a problem. The Heathers then convince Veronica to go through with it.

While playing Croquet, Chandler remarks on how attracted Veronica was to JD, but Veronica doesn't see it as a big deal since she doesn't even know his name. Veronica's parents come over and ask if they have any plans and Veronica says that Chandler's giving her a ride to Ram's homecoming party. Chandler then makes all of them leave to head to the party.

Chandler pulls out a pig piñata dressed like Martha for her to hit, but Veronica fights her over it. She asks what Chandler's damage is and throws the piñata in the pool. She tells Martha to go home, and then tells the Heathers she's leaving their clique. She attempts to leave, but Chandler grabs her and says that she's going to make Veronica's life hell. Veronica then throws up on Chandler who promptly screams. She yells that this is the payment she gets for raising Veronica from nothing and Veronica tells her to lick it up. Chandler gets close to her and says that she knows who she's eating lunch with on Monday, but does Veronica? Veronica then looks around and quickly runs away.

After having sex with JD, Veronica has a dream about Chandler who mocks her for sleeping with JD. She says she'll crucify her, and Veronica asks why she wants to hurt her. Chandler says that it's because she can. She starts maniacally laughing when Veronica wakes up with a scream.

Veronica goes over to Chandler's house, where a hungover Chandler is. Veronica says she's there to apologize, and Chandler yells down that if she makes her a hangover cure she'll think about it. Veronica makes it with JD where they joke about giving her cleaning supplies for a "cure". Chandler calls for Veronica who accidentally grabs the mug filled with cleaner fluid and heads up to her. Chandler tells Veronica to beg, and Veronica starts to talk, but Chandler interrupts and says she'd prefer if Veronica did it on her knees. Veronica start to apologize, when Chandler laughs and asks if she looks like she's kidding. She tells her to go down again and Veronica does so. Chandler is happy, but Veronica is still dead to her. She takes the drink from her hand and downs it, only to immediately start falling. She grabs onto Veronica, then falls to the ground. Dead!

Veronica realizes that the drink was drainer fluid and yells for JD to call 911. She starts trying to shake Chandler awake, but she's gone. Veronica can't believe she killed her best friend, and JD points out that she was also her worst enemy, which annoys Veronica. He then gets the idea to fake a suicide note and convinces Veronica to do so.

After Veronica has an encounter with Ram and Kurt, she realizes that Chandler was the only one who could have controlled the two. Hallucination Chandler then appears and says that Veronica should have thought of that before she killed her. Chandler then starts coughing and says that she'll be coughing up drain cleaner for eternity now. Veronica then writes in her diary that even though she didn't technically kill Chandler, she still feels bad. But not as bad as she should, which makes her feel worse.

Act Two
After Veronica believes she convinces JD to stand down, Chandler haunts Veronica and asks if she really believes that everything will go back to normal. Chandler know that Veronica loves exactly what JD is, and Veronica tells her to stop. Chandler says that only a true dead bestie would give it to her straight, when they're interrupted by Martha. Martha says she believe that Ram and Kurt were murdered, and Chandler says that Martha is onto Veronica. As Martha starts to put the pieces together from the note Veronica forged, Chandler goads Veronica into saying that she was the one to write it. When Martha runs away heartbroken, Veronica tells her Chandler that she had to hurt her, so that JD wouldn't find her going through his stuff. Chandler asks if Veronica is scared of JD killing Martha, and asks if she trusts JD before sauntering off.

Musical Act 1

 * Chandler yells to Veronica to get the corn nuts and yells what flavor.
 * Chandler yells for Veronica and Veronica admits she doesn't love her friends.
 * Chandler comes into the 711 and tells Veronica to move it.
 * Chandler yells that Veronica is doing shots wrong.
 * Veronica tells JD that Chandler has decided to ruin her life.
 * Veronica decides that she need to go to Chandler's to make up.
 * Chandler grabs onto Veronica's thing when she dies.
 * Veronica screams over Chandler being dead.
 * Veronica gives a take on Chandler's "suicide".
 * Chandler demands that Veronica tells Duke to stop touching her stuff, and Veronica tells her to shut up.

Musical Act 2

 * After taunting from Chandler, Veronica admits to killing Chandler.
 * Chandler is part of the choir that sings as Veronica freaks out.
 * Chandler points out that JD has Veronica's handwriting down.
 * Veronica takes Chandler's scrunchy from Duke.

Songs

 * Candy Store | Jessica Keena Wynn, Alice Lee, Elle McLemore
 * The Heathers convince Veronica to their side


 * The Me Inside of Me | Jodie Steel, Carrie Hope Fletcher, Rebecca Lock
 * Veronica fakes Heather Chandler's suicide note

Fanon
The ship while existing for many years before had been popularized by the musical adaption of Heathers. The musical added much more content for Heather, which could be contribution for it's rapid growth in the Heathers fandom. It currently holds as the second most popular ship on AO3 (both movie and musical.) As well as being the ship most written about for Heather and the second most written ship for Veronica.

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Variations

 * Veronica/The Heathers refers to the ship between Heather Duke, Heather McNamara, Chandler and Veronica.