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.

SLEEP OF FAITH: LA RUE D'AWAKENING

Joan and Gandhi sit at a booth at the Grassy Knoll discussing the idea of Gandhi not taking the PXJTs. Joan tells him that Abe approaching and to act like she just said something funny. Gandhi makes up that she farted and he started laughing hysterically. However, it didn't matter what he said because Abe wasn't paying attention. He explains that he hasn't slept in two days, and Joan tells him that he needs to sleep in order for him to pass the PXJTs. He tells her that he can't because he has so many things he has to do.

Later, Joan goes with Abe to go grocery shopping. Abe tells Joan how great he feels about how close him and Cleo are getting because they're studying together for the PXJTs. He stops walking but lets go of his cart, and it keeps rolling slowly ahead of him. Joan frantically calls for him to grab the cart before it hits a store display of animal crackers. She tells him that it's moving slowly and he can just grab it, and he reaches his arm out to grab the handle but misses. The cart bumps the animal cracker display and knocks it over. Joan stands in front of Abe and tells him that he's too tired to be grocery shopping because his reflexes are gone. He tells her that his reflexes are fine, and to prove that he's wrong Joan tells him that she's going to slap him in the face in three seconds. She follows through and he doesn't flinch or fight it. She tells him that he has a problem and that she has a big secret to tell him that's related to the issue of not sleeping. However, she tells him that it's too big to reveal and just doubles down on the fact that he needs sleep. Abe tells her that he doesn't take orders from anyone when he gets a call from Cleo. He literally takes her order for sushi and then tells her that he's getting in the car to go. Joan pulls him back by his arm and tells him that he's in no shape to drive with how little sleep he's had. She reminds him of when his shopping cart crashed into the animal cracker display, and he mocks her by saying that it's not like he'll drive into a real truck of animals while he's on the road. He, in fact, almost does.

Joan approaches Cleo in the girl's locker room as she's changing. Joan tells her that she needs to stop pushing Abe so far because he needs sleep. Cleo teases that Joan is just jealous about the time she's spending with Abe instead of Joan. Joan agrees, but again almost tells Cleo about some secret of hers regarding the subject of sleep, but decides against it. She urges Cleo to stop to help Abe, but Cleo only mocks her concern and walks off.

At the PXJTs, Abe and Joan are sitting next to each other. She goes to ask how he is to see that he's a wreck from still no sleeping. He explains that he pulled an all-nighter with Cleo to help her study, and as he says this he cannot help but fall asleep during the test. Joan tries to whisper to wake him up, but he's fully asleep. He then sleeps through the entirety of the testing period.

After Abe sleeps through the whole test, Joan and Gandhi stage a sleeping intervention for him. Abe still tries to fight it, and Joan tells him that he'll die if he doesn't sleep. Gandhi tries to tell Abe a story of why he should sleep, but Abe pokes holes in it and leaves Gandhi running out of the door, leaving Joan and Abe alone. Joan finally tells her mysterious story about sleep, where she had to go to a special camp for people who can't sleep because he had an addiction to staying awake. Abe is shocked and the story moves him. He tells her to give him the pillow to sleep. Joan and Gandhi sit in the next room watching American Pie when Joan says that she's going to go check on Abe. When she does, however, she sees that he broke out by running through the wall, presumably to participate in the drag race with JFK to win over Cleo. Joan makes her way to the race area just before the race starts to come to Abe's window. She tells him that him driving so fast isn't safe when he still hasn't slept at all and that he'll end up killing himself. He assures her that the race is the last thing he has to do before he can finally sleep. Cleo calls for the race to start and he drives off as Joan says that the race might be the last thing he may ever do. Abe ends up winning the race because he pulled over to sleep, and at the end he thanks Joan as his "pal."

HOMECOMING: A SHOT IN D'ARC

Abe is the new captain for the Clone High basketball team, and he is upset after a defacing incident with the rival school, GESHH. Joan tells him that she wants to play on the team with him for the game, but he tells her that girls and animals aren't allowed on the boy's basketball team. She gets frustrated and reminds him that she beats him every time they play together, and Abe is surprised that she was keeping score. She walks off when Abe stops her and tells her that she should try on his letterman's jacket. She thinks that the gesture either means that he'll have her on the team or that he's interested in her romantically, but in reality he explains that he wants her to try it on to see how it will fit Cleo when he gives it to her to wear at the homecoming dance. Joan asks angrily why Abe is still pursuing Cleo when they had a single date and she ended up leaving with JFK.

To get on the team, Joan disguises herself as a man, calling herself John D'Arc. At the practice, Cleo starts getting interested in Joan instead of Abe because of how good she is at basketball, and Abe gets mad at her for it. In the locker room after practice, Joan goes up to Abe and says that he played well at the practice. Abe says that it wasn't good playing because he's upset that Cleo is gravitating more towards Joan now than Abe. Joan tells him not to chase after Cleo, and that he should go after Joan instead. He questions it, and she doubles down that she's everything for Abe. He says that he's never thought of dating Joan before, then claims that he knows what Joan is trying to do. It sounds like he's about to expose that Joan is pretending to be a man and trying to influence him to date her, but in reality he says that he thinks Joan is doing this so that she can have Cleo for herself. Joan says that she doesn't want Cleo, she wants Abe, but he interprets it as she wants Abe to date Joan so that Cleo can be John's.

Abe and Joan, still as John, get into an argument about Cleo wanting Joan over Abe. As they argue, Principal Scudworth comes in to say that Joan is the new basketball captain over Abe because she plays better. This angers Abe further, while Joan says that she never wanted it to happen like this. Abe doesn't buy the sincerity and tells Joan not to talk to him anymore, mentioning that the actual Joan has been "unsuspiciously" missing for the past few days that John has been there. He walks off.

At the game against GESHH, Joan keeps passing the ball to Abe even though he's terrible at shooting. This results in the team still not being able to score a point to win the game. Scudworth steps in to force Abe to let Joan do the free-throws, but Joan argues that they should let Abe shoot them instead. Abe tells Joan to give it up because he's just terrible at basketball. Joan then reveals herself and removes the fake moustache, shocking everyone in the stadium. Abe accuses Joan of lying to him for the past few days. She tries to get him to understand, but they just argue about her disguising herself. However, at the end of it, Abe still thinks that Joan should be the one to shoot the free-throws. Scudworth is in opposition due to the original rule that girls are not allowed to play for the boys, but Abe ends up convincing the entire stadium that Joan should be allowed to shoot the ball. She thanks Abe as Scudworth hands her the ball, and he tells her to score the point. She ends up missing the first shot narrowly, but then makes the second, scoring a point for Clone High. Abe hugs Joan as the players all cheer for Abe instead of Joan, taking away her credit because she is a woman.

PLANE CRAZY: GATE EXPECTATIONS

At the cafeteria during lunch, Joan asks Abe why he's saying that him and Cleo haven't kissed yet when they kissed in the first episode, at JFK's party. Abe clarifies that it's their first kiss as boyfriend and girlfriend, so it needs to be perfect. Joan reminds him that Cleo never held JFK to that same rule. She urges Abe to forget Cleo, saying that the first kiss will just happen if people are really in love. She leans in to try to kiss him and he laughs at her, telling her that he's always amused by her "fake infatuation bit." She is annoyed. After Cleo leaves to be on a TV show as a dancer, Joan, Abe and Gandhi sit together to watch Cleo. Abe says that he's upset that he can only see his girlfriend on TV, and Joan tries to tell him to be realistic and consider that Cleo has already slept with the star of the show, Ashley Angel from O-Town. Abe tells her that she's wrong, because him and Cleo made a deal to not touch anyone else below the eyebrows while they were apart.

Abe is upset that Cleo didn't wear his jacket on TV like she promised him before she left, and that she's been telling him that she was wearing it when she got back. He sits with Joan at his house to rewatch the episode, which Abe says confirms that Cleo wasn't wearing the jacket. Joan tells him again to forget Cleo and find someone new as she flips her hair and puts her hand on his knees. However, he again doesn't pick up that she's talking about herself. He stands up and tells her that she's right, and that he's going to find a new girl, potentially a redhead. She is excited. Suddenly, Abe sees that Cleo is wearing a necklace he didn't notice. He looks closer and sees that his letterman's jacket, now very small, is like a pendant around Cleo's neck. Joan tries to convince him that it's not his jacket and that he should continue giving up on Cleo, but he celebrates it as a victory. She tries telling him that it doesn't count as wearing it, but he doesn't care, and calls Cleo's home number. Her foster mother picks up and tells him that Cleo's at the airport to stay with Ashley Angel instead.

Abe goes to the airport to try to stop Cleo from leaving, but she sees him and runs into the plane. He then sees Buddy Holly in the airport and asks to board his plane, which is shown to be a small plane that's falling apart. Joan then shows up at the airport, running and calling after Abe not to get on Buddy Holly's plane. She says that she doesn't want to see him make a mistake. She explains that Cleo's flight has a layover and that the two can drive together to the layover location to stop Cleo there instead of him flying on Buddy Holly's risky plane. He agrees and thanks her.

RAISIN THE STAKES: A ROCK OPERA IN THREE ACTS

In the opening number of the episode, Abe sings about Cleo. Cleo sings about herself in return, and Joan sings about Abe. At the anti-drug assembly after the number, Abe and Joan are on stage together to announce the speaker, Larry Hardcore. He talks about saying no to drugs, and Abe and Joan wipe tears from their eyes as he does. Because of an offhand comment he made, all the students now want to smoke raisins, and a mysterious hooded man named "The Pusher" sells two bags of raisins to JFK. He asks all the students in the halls if they want to smoke raisins with him. Cleo wants to go and tries to drag Abe in, too, but Joan pulls him back and reminds him that drugs aren't cool and he shouldn't go. He angrily tells her that he needs to go with Cleo because they are dating.

Abe succumbs to peer pressure by Cleo in JFK's van and smokes the raisins. He begins tripping out, and Joan finds him naked in a mud pile. She slaps him across the face to pull him out of his high and asks him why he ended up smoking the raisins. He tells her that he has real friends, ones who peer pressure him into doing drugs. Joan picks him up and throws his body onto the ground, telling him that he's changed. He tells her that maybe she's the one who's changed by not changing at all.

After Abe has a trip that gives him illusions of grandeur, he hits his head on a rock and has a hallucination of the real Abraham Lincoln descending from the sky to tell him to stop smoking raisins. He finally wakes up with his head being held by Joan. She asks him if he is okay, and he tells her that he is now. She tells him that she has a plan to stop the students from thinking that smoking raisins is cool, by making the parents high. It works, and The Pusher's power diminishes. Abe and Joan then pull The Pusher's hoodie off to reveal his true identity, Larry Hardcore.

A ROOM OF ONE'S CLONE: THE PIE OF THE STORM

A massive storm hits Exclamation, resulting in lightning striking Joan's house and burning it down, leaving her and Toots temporarily homeless. At school the next day, Abe and Cleo come up to Joan to offer their condolences about her house. Joan tells Abe that he's fine and doesn't need his pity, and gets angry when Cleo berates her over being homeless and poor. The two are about to fight when Abe steps between them and reminds them how much he hates conflict. He says that he loves both of the girls, but Joan in a strictly platonic way and Cleo in a passionate and sexual way. Abe then says that he's glad they all talked and walks away with Cleo on his arm.

Joan is able to find a house when she moves in with Cleo, because Toots is dating Cleo's foster mother. The two are working things out in their newly-shared bedroom as Abe climbs in through the window to ask how they're settling in, calling them his "two favorite girls." Joan bitterly asks Abe if he likes Cleo either because she's conceited or because she's a whore. Abe laughs uncomfortably and tries to shrug the question off when Cleo bites back, asking Abe if he's friends with Joan as just part of an elaborate joke, or for sympathy. Abe laughs it off and tells them to do a trust exercise of a trust fall to work out their differences. He is so confident in his trust exercise working that he leaves out of the window again without bothering to watch.

That night, Abe comes back to make out with Cleo. Joan, on the bunk above Cleo, is awake and angrily has to listen to all of it. Abe then pops up and asks Joan if she knows how to take off a bra. Joan gets upset at the question. She then jumps off the bed to Cleo's level and tells Abe that Cleo's bra will just fall off if he takes the tissues out first. Cleo tells her, upset, that she just broke her NDAs that she signed. The two are ready to fight when Abe gets between them again and suggests that the two paint their emotions about each other, a tactic he learned in his conflict-resolution class.

LITTER KILLS: LITTERALLY

Joan watches from afar as Abe and Cleo enjoy their time together, making out. Later, after Ponce's death by litter, the school is left decimated with grief. Joan tries to study from a book called "Seasons of Grief" when Abe walks into her shared bedroom with Cleo, asking for guidance. He tells Joan that he feels bad for the way he's been acting towards JFK after his best friend's death, explaining that he thought JFK was just faking his sadness to get closer to Cleo. Joan comforts him by comparing grief to an ocean. She tells Abe to let out his feelings, and he cries as she holds his head. She even kisses him on the forehead as he weeps.

MAKEOVER, MAKEOVER, MAKEOVER: THE MAKEOVER EPISODE

Joan walks with Abe and Cleo on campus as they see clones asking each other to the upcoming Winter Prom. Joan says that she doesn't even enjoy the idea of a prom, and Abe is horrified. He describes prom as "the single most important event in your life" and says that Joan needs to go to the prom if she wants people to take her seriously. Joan emphasizes that she doesn't care and that she doesn't want to go to the prom before walking off. Cleo asks Abe why he's wasting time talking Joan into going to the prom when he should be worrying about how he's going to ask Cleo to the prom. He tells her that he'll get to it, distracted by Joan walking off into the school. He vows that he'll get Joan to go to the prom.

That night, Abe tells Joan to come to his house because he has a prom-related question for her. She hurries over and is out of breath at the door as she nervously asks what his prom-related question could possibly be. He gets down on one knee and holds her hands as he asks if she'll make him the happiest guy ever if she'll accompany him somewhere. Joan is convinced that this is a promposal, and she is excited for the final part of the sentence. However, Abe only asks if she'll accompany him to the mirror, so he can try to give her a makeover so that someone else will take her to prom. Joan is thrown off and confused, and Abe tells her that he has a lot of work cut out for him to make her look good. She asks why she should let him give her a makeover, and he responds that he just cares about her. He says that he knows he should be working on his proposal to Cleo, but that he can't get Joan out of his mind. Joan is excited by that idea, which he doubles down on by saying that the two will need to spend a lot of time alone together. He asks if she's thinking what he's thinking as he cups her face in his hands. She's sure he'll tell her that he loves her, but instead he wants to give her the makeover, starting a makeover montage that results in Joan's new look, a horrifying mix of sci-fi, medical attire, and a metal mask welded to one half of her face. She is so horrified she starts screaming and runs out of his house.

He runs to follow her and finds her at the thinking docks near the school. He tells her that she forgot the vampire teeth to her outfit, but she yells at him to leave her alone. She tells him that she used to feel good about herself until she met him. He refutes that by saying that he's so close to unlocking the beauty he believes to be locked deep within her. She starts crying as she tells him that she doesn't want to be beautiful, that she only wants him. He, in Abe fashion, believes that she means she wants him to find her a prom date, which he says he's trying to do.

Cleo finally gives Joan a makeover, which Abe is able to see when he comes over to their shared home to say that he found a homeless man that would be willing to take Joan to prom. Cleo tells him that Joan will be able to get anyone to go to prom with her with her new Cleo makeover. Joan comes down the stairs on a Stairmaster and covered in a white sheet for the reveal. Abe is shocked and in awe when Cleo pulls the sheet off to reveal Joan in a tight black and red dress with red fishnets and heavy, dramatic blue eyeshadow and a new hairstyle. She thinks Abe will tell her she looks horrible, so she starts to explain that she doesn't like it, when Abe tells her that she looks beautiful. She then swings around to asking if he likes it. He tells her that it changes everything, and it seems like he's going to ask her to the prom again, when it turns out he just wants her to make a list of any guy she wants to go to prom with, because they'll definitely go now that she looks different. Cleo gets angry at his response and reminds Abe that he still needs to propose to her, sending him out of the house. As he leaves, he says that Joan looks hot. The next day, Abe has a dream in the middle of class that he is proposing to Cleo, when her head turns into Joan's, and his promposal banner switches between Joan's name and Cleo's. He wakes up in a sweat, concerned about what the dream could possibly mean. The episode ends with a cliffhanger, where Abe is proposing and he is cut off before he can say Joan or Cleo's name.

CHANGES: THE BIG PROM: THE SEX ROMP: THE SEASON FINALE

Joan is walking down the halls in her makeover look, and JFK takes notice. He asks twice for Joan to go to the prom with him, but she punches him and rejects him both times. She tells him that she's waiting for someone special to ask her as Abe stops her in the hall. She fixes her hair and adjusts her dress as he tells her that he has an important prom-related question to ask her. She is excited by this because she thinks that he'll finally ask her to the prom. However, he instead tells her that he plans on sleeping with Cleo on prom night, and wants to know if women's sexual organs need anything specific for sex, referencing cotton balls and wooden dowels. Joan gets so angry by the question that she kicks one of the lockers behind them. She asks why guys always go for "giggly, vapid sluts." As she says this, JFK pops up and says that he was alerted by the word "sluts." Joan looks between Abe and JFK before doing her best impression of a "giggly, vapid slut" and laughing at what JFK said. She calls him funny and says that she's glad they're going to prom together. JFK claims that she said no before, and Joan claims that she's just too stupid to know what no means, and that she meant that she would go with him instead. Abe watches this and sounds slightly upset at the idea of JFK and Joan going out together, but then snaps out of it to go buy condoms.

The night of the prom, Joan goes to answer the door to see Abe standing there. He tells Joan that she looks beautiful and JFK swoops in and shoves Abe aside to talk to Joan himself. Abe is annoyed and watches as JFK gives Joan flowers. Toots comes in to tell the two couples to get together for a picture before they all leave for the prom. As they pose for the photos, Cleo whispers to Joan to stay away from Abe. As Cleo and Abe leave the house first, Joan giggles and waves to Abe, saying that she'll see him at prom as she cuddles up to JFK. Abe is again saddened by the look of Joan with JFK as he leaves with Cleo. Abe comes up to Joan later, as she sits alone at a table while JFK dances with the Bronte sisters. He asks how her night is going, and she tells him he's so funny. He says that he guesses that his question was pretty funny, and then says that Joan's seemed so much more approachable lately. He tells her that as a result he wants to tell her something that he's sure that she's been wanting to hear for a long time. The longer he stretches it out, Joan gets anxious that it isn't want she wants it to be. He finally says it, that he thinks that JFK is a lucky guy to be with Joan at the prom. She gets angry and starts arguing with him, before she registers what he said. She says that she doesn't know what to say, and he puts his finger to her lips and tells her not to say anything, just to tell him one thing. He's about to ask if she ever wonders something when Cleo interrupts them by tackling him, asking for sex. Abe is conflicted, and looks between Joan and Cleo before ultimately choosing Cleo, and they leave together to go to a separate room to sleep together. Joan pretends to be supportive as they walk off, but starts crying after they're gone.

When Abe tries to have sex with Cleo, he sees floating Joan heads where her private parts should be. He then keeps calling Cleo Joan, and finds that his mouth is physically unable to say Cleo's name. He asks what it could possibly mean, and Cleo cries as she tells Abe that he's in love with Joan instead. This shocks Abe and he runs out of their private room to talk to Gandhi about it. Abe asks Gandhi if he thinks Joan shares his feelings, and Gandhi gives him a look as flashbacks of every time Joan tried to confess to Abe play back. Gandhi then slaps him, which seems to get his point across to Abe. Abe runs around, busting down doors of each freezer room to look for Joan. He finally finds her at the same time as Cleo and Gandhi. Joan and JFK are in bed together after sleeping together. Abe is shocked and devastated as Scudworth leads everyone into the room with his conga line. He freezes everyone in the room as Abe is about to potentially profess his love to Joan.

Season 2
LET'S TRY THIS AGAIN

Scudworth uses a hairdryer to thaw out the original clones by order of The Secret Board of Shadowy Figures. They, along with the real audience of the show, admit being anxious to see who Abe would confess his love for when he was unfrozen: Joan or Cleo. As Abe's mouth is thawed, it is revealed that he said he was in love with Joan. The Board is excited and relieved by this.

The next day after being unfrozen, Joan walks to school alone. Abe watches her from across the street, telling who he believes to be Gandhi that Joan is the love of his life and that he took Joan for granted in his life for too long. He says that he wants to finally end that and confess his love for her. He then realizes that he hasn't been talking to Gandhi, but rather a full roasted turkey on a fire hydrant. Abe catches up to Joan as they get onto campus, and he asks how she is. She is confused and uneasy, because she notices that there are new students and they seem to be holding futuristic technology. As she talks, Abe is enamored. He tells her that he's finally hoping to tell her how he's always felt, when he is interrupted by JFK physically getting between the two to say hello to Joan. JFK asks Joan to be his girlfriend after they slept together at prom. Abe tries to get her attention behind JFK, but JFK unknowingly keeps blocking him. Joan tells JFK that she needs to think about it, because of their popularity difference, and JFK agrees before running off to chase a drone, unsure what it really is. When Abe and Joan are alone again, Abe nervously comments on the idea of Joan and JFK together. She tells him that she's just not sure about dating JFK solely because they had supposedly incredible sex together on prom night. Abe is horrified at the details she describes.

The school holds Inclusivity Week for the clones that have been unfrozen, a week full of group bonding activities for the original clones to attend to mingle with the new clones. Joan and Cleo approach Harriet and Frida, who ask Joan if she wants to join their "Inclusivity Committee," a notably exclusive group functioning within Inclusivity Week. Frida gives her a lanyard to signify her status, and also gives their other lanyard to JFK. Abe is confused as to why he wasn't given one. As they walk off, away from Abe, Frida mentions that they still need to find someone to organize the Unity Luncheon event that is part of Inclusivity Week. Joan looks back at dejected Abe and asks Frida if they can let Abe plan it so that he feels included. Harriet complains that Abe is too "mansplainy," so she doesn't want him helping. Joan makes a case for him, saying that Abe is her best friend and that he loves lunch. Abe hears this and agrees, and Frida gives him the opportunity to prove himself by organizing the luncheon event.

Joan is sitting at lunch with Harriet, Frida and JFK in the special VIP lunch area for the Inclusivity Community, when Abe tries to get Joan's attention from the other side of the barrier. She tells the bouncer to let him in, and Harriet asks about Abe's progress on the plans for the luncheon. When his ideas are met with a lukewarm reception, Joan tries to ask if he has something more exciting to share, emphasizing that she needs him to say something good because he only has the task because she vouched for him earlier. He then says a few derogatory statements that shock everyone in the cafeteria, and Joan asks him to leave because she doesn't want to get kicked out of the Inclusivity Committee for being associated with him. He depressingly obliges and leaves. He goes to the docks that he used to visit before he was frozen, and finds Confucius there as well. Confucius tells him that he should make an apology video to apologize to Joan and get her trust and respect back.

What then follows is Abe ranting on FlipFlop, the show's version of TikTok, going on to say more derogatory and offensive things. The entire student body is appalled and Frida declares Abe "cancelled" while Joan watches on, not helping him. He is then relegated to a corner of the cafeteria called the "Cancelled Corner." Joan goes to visit him there and he gets upset with her for not trying to stand up for him earlier. They argue that Joan has changed by trying to fit in with the popular students, and Joan tells Abe that circumstances are different to before they were frozen because the popular students genuinely like her and she doesn't want to throw that away. She's upset that he's left her to plan the luncheon by herself in a single day, and Abe claims that he'll just make his own luncheon on the same day to spite the Inclusivity Committee.

The next day, when Joan has successfully set up her Unity Luncheon, she sees that Abe followed through on his promise and made his own luncheon, with imagery referencing a variety of phrases or items that have been given a negative connotation with the passage of time, such as tiki torches and a pig being spitroasted. He mentions to himself that he finds it unfair that Joan, the "woman [he] ignored for years," would allow him to be "cancelled." His unique luncheon next to the official Inclusivity Committee's luncheon sets off a chain reaction of every student wanting their own luncheon tailored to their specific interests, which then causes chaos. Frida and Harriet claim that the Unity Luncheon is ruined, and Frida seems to blame Joan, who agrees and gives her back the Inclusivity Committee lanyard and walks off. Abe watches Joan walk away defeated and realizes that he made a mistake in trying to one-up her luncheon. He once again goes to the docks to think, and comes up with the idea of apologizing to the school and taking the blame off of Joan by making a fool of himself and letting everyone hurt him by pouring hot sauce into his paper cuts. His sacrifice works, and repairs Joan's relationship with him, as well as with Frida and Harriet. She assures him that she'll always be his friend as they hug. He tries to ask if they could ever be more than friends when she gets distracted and goes after JFK instead, where they seal the deal of dating. They make out as Abe watches, crying.

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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 most of 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). Arcoln is the tenth most popular ship for Clone High on AO3. The ship is the third most popular ship for Joan's AO3 character tag, and the fourth most popular ship for Abe's AO3 character tag.

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