LinCleo

LinCleo is the het ship between Abe Lincoln and Cleopatra Smith from the Clone High fandom.

Season 1
ESCAPE TO BEER MOUNTAIN: A ROPE OF SAND

Abe, Gandhi and Joan walk into Clone High for the new school year and Abe sees Cleopatra putting things in her locker as Joan tells him that she wants to date more this school year. Abe agrees, his eyes locked on Cleo, telling Joan that he also wants to date this year, specifically Cleo, because of her looks and intelligence, as well as her "commitment to community service." Joan tries to tell him that it would be better to date an old friend rather than someone new, trying to drop the hint that she's pining for him, but he ignores her. Cleo comes up to Abe and says hello, complimenting his hair. He freezes up and tries to look slick by leaning his arm against the glass trophy case behind him, which shatters under his pressure and cuts him. Joan tries to tell Abe that he is bleeding, but he is still frozen in shock by Cleo approaching him. Cleo tells Abe that JFK is holding a party that Friday and she wants to see him there before walking away. Abe offers delayed responses to Cleo's remarks after she goes as he comes out of his stupor.

Abe is washing his hands in the boy's bathroom when JFK walks in, telling Abe to keep away from Cleo because he wants to sleep with her and to not come to his party on Friday. Later at the Grassy Knoll, Lincoln talks with Gandhi and Joan about how to get into JFK's party so that he can be around Cleo and get her attention. After ignoring Joan trying to profess her love for him, Abe walks over to the table that Cleo and JFK are sitting at and he asks JFK if he can go to the party after all if he brings beer. JFK allows it and leaves with Cleo, holding her hand. Cleo looks at Abe before they go and Abe is frozen again in awe.

At gym class, Joan is sent to Principal Scudworth's office for talking. Cleo comes up to Abe and calls him a stud after Joan walks away. She said that she heard about him buying beer for the party that night and she says that she loves underage drinking. Abe is frozen again and Cleo walks off. When he comes to, Abe desperately asks Gandhi how he's supposed to get the beer for the party.

At the party, Abe secretly brings non-alcoholic beer because he is unable to get any real beer, but the rest of the students think and act as though the beer is real. Cleo says that she thinks the beer is talking for her when she explains that she always saw Abe as an honest guy, but his bringing beer to the party has shown her that he's also a cool guy. She puts her hands on his shoulders and then pulls him in by his shirt until they're pressed nose-to-nose, where she says it feels like a phone is connecting their two hearts. The two suddenly kiss and begin making out as Joan walks back and watches, shocked. JFK sees and approaches them, asking Abe what he's doing with Cleo. Abe tells JFK that him and Cleo are now going to be together forever, and JFK argues that the kiss only happened because Cleo is drunk. Cleo pulls away and JFK asks her which of them she will choose. Abe holds her hands and tells her that he cares about her and wants to spend more time together. JFK shows her his abs and she says that she needs time alone to mull over the decision. She walks away dramatically from the two of them.

Cleo goes into a spare room in the house and calls Joan's teen crisis hotline to ask for advice about the choice of Abe or JFK to date. Joan finds that she's talking to Cleo and first tells her to sleep with JFK, before seeing that Abe is upset over the competition with JFK and she tells Cleo to go with Abe instead before hanging up. Cleo comes out and tells JFK and Abe that she will choose Abe over JFK. Abe is shocked as JFK storms off and Cleo holds Abe's hand. Suddenly, a police car shows up because there were reports of underage drinking and Abe and Cleo hop to hide behind a bush together. The two watch Joan and Gandhi get arrested and Cleo tells Abe to forget about his friends and come back to her basement with her.

Abe comes clean about the beer he brought to the party being non-alcoholic, and the school thinks he's a loser before Joan pays off Van Gogh to paint a mural of Gandhi naked on one of the school walls. As Abe, Gandhi and Joan look at the mural, Cleo and JFK walks by and Cleo slips a piece of paper into Abe's hand. The paper reads, "sorry. luv, cleo." She looks back and smiles at him.

EPISODE TWO: ELECTION BLU-GALOO

When Cleo gets emotional over her decision of not running for re-election as student president for the upcoming school year, she leaves her event. Abe tells Joan that he should go find her to console her. When he finally finds her, he finds that she is making out with JFK, because he beat Abe to consoling her after her emotional outburst. Later at the Grassy Knoll, Abe talks to Joan about the possibility of him running for school president. Joan tells him that he should run so that she can manage his campaign for him so that they can spend more time together. Abe says that running for president is a great idea, so he can get the admiration of Cleo. He says that she likes and is dating JFK because he's a natural leader, and he needs to be more like that for her to pay attention to him again.

When Abe teams up with school corporate sponsor X-stream Blu to fund his election campaign, he begins leading in the polls against JFK. Cleo runs in to say that suddenly things aren't working with JFK and she wants to be with Abe instead. Abe is excited, but still tries to comfort Cleo. Joan is under the impression that Cleo will keep switching between JFK and Abe based on whoever is leading the polls. As Joan expected, Cleo tells Abe that she wants them to take a break when JFK starts winning again with Joan's help, because she wants to be with JFK instead. Abe is upset and sits at the dock to think. Coincidentally, Joan is on a parallel dock thinking as well.

Fanon
This ship is commonly paired with Arcoln, JFCleo, and JoanFK, due to the love triangle between Joan, Abe and Cleo in Season 1 and the added complication of JFK in the mix in Season 2. Abe is pining for Cleo for all of the first season and the two date for a few episodes of the first season before breaking it off, then later having an on-off relationship until the end of the first season, after which the two rarely interact. LinCleo is the fourth most popular Clone High ship on AO3, and is the most popular ship for the Cleopatra and Abe Lincoln character tags on AO3.

Fandom
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