Althony

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**Althony (Al/**exandra and An/**thony)** is a semi-canon pairing between Anthony and Alex.

## Relationship

Anthony and Alex share a very deep and caring relationship with each other. Anthony first met Alex when he followed her back home while she was on her way to collect recyclable items and after her mother noticed him helping her, she asked him to take care of her which he promised. The bond between them started with the fact that Anthony was the only one who was aware of Alex's family background in Sparkle & Shine, although he refused to disclose his relationship with Alex to his classmates and teachers in Sacred Hearts Primary School due to his status as a hygiene monitor and being the son of Mrs. Lawson, the school's health and discipline teacher. Ever since then, Anthony and Alex's friendship blossomed as Anthony always prepares and brings food for Alex to consume since he is aware of her poverty-stricken family background and he wishes for her to eat healthily.

Anthony was shown to have a tendency to loose his usual stoic and serious demeanor when the situation involves Alex who is in trouble. This was evidenced during the events of Boys & Girls Rule! when Alex was splashed with water by the triplet bullies in an attempt to protect Anthony and Robin, Anthony was infuriated and scolded Alex angrily on why she did not know how to protect herself before proceeding to take off his jacket and placing it on Alex.

Despite the strong bond between Anthony and Alex, there are some times where they have misunderstandings and conflicting moments between them. This was shown when Anthony threw away the sandwich that was intended for Alex after he learned about she knew how to take care of herself and he interrogated Garry who took Alex to work at a fish farm in exchange of fish after he tailed Garry and Alex to there. Another instance was when Alex angrily told Anthony that a poor child like her does not deserve to have an air con at home because of her poor family background, which made Anthony respond angrily to her by telling her to do whatever she wanted.

However, despite the occasional misunderstandings and conflicts between the two, they started to develop a closer bond during the events of Fruits of Friendship. In the events of Fruits of Friendship, Anthony injured his wrist while protecting Alex from the falling boxes when they were helping to carry the boxes due to a school renovation and this kick started Alex's desire to plant vegetables to consume in order to get healthy and strong so that she would not be a burden to Anthony. Realizing her desire to consume nutritious food to grow healthy and strong, Anthony finally learned about what Alex truly wanted and he apologized to her sincerely for not realizing what she wanted. Since then they started to exchange the food they made during schooldays, thus increasing the bond between them.

In Earth Pals to the Rescue, Anthony and Alex's relationship leaped to a greater change, as shown when Alex's house caught a fire and her family had to move away temporarily from their residence, Anthony volunteered to let them to stay at his house and he played the role as a persuader to Mrs. Lawson to let them to stay. After successfully persuading Mrs. Lawson to let Alex and Alan stay at their house, Anthony defended Alex from Andrew who claimed that the latter was unworthy of his brother's friendship. Alex later told Anthony about Andrew's good side despite the personality flaws Andrew showcased towards her, which made Anthony smile at her and in the ending of Book 41, Anthony glared at Andrew when the letter shouted angrily at Alex that he will try to like her, showing that he presumably misinterpreted Andrew's statement that the letter was confessing his love towards Alex.

## Synopsis

### Season 1

#### Sparkle and Shine: Hygiene

Anthony and Alex started their relationship in Book 4. When Alex (back then who was dirty and appeared to be a boy) was chatting with Candy JEM during recess, Anthony showed up behind them and he dragged Alex to the disciplinary office for wearing dirty clothes in school.

Their relationship was further discovered by Candy JEM when they noticed Alex attempting to help Anthony who fell into a mud pit and he refused her help by getting up by himself because he did not want his basketball teammates to find out the relationship between them. After the school's extracurricular activities had ended, Candy JEM tailed Anthony to a dump where they found out that he was collecting recyclable items using his bare hands. They then tailed him again to a run-down house and they were surprised when they saw Anthony's smile and what made them even more surprised was that the person who welcomed him was Alex.

#### Style with Substance: Savvy

Not agreeing on modelling for Iris' crew, Alex purposely brought up the fact that if Anthony agreed in being a model for Iris' fashion show, she and her brother would be able to wear the used clothes for a couple of years; and added that they could also use them to survive the cold winter in the country. Despite Anthony not willing to wear fashion clothes that he described as "strange" and "embarrassing", he soon agreed in helping them after hearing Alex's continuous pleading.

Anthony and Alex were later seen cutting fabric together for the fashion design show. When it was time to present Iris' fashion designs, Anthony walked down the fashion runway with Alex while wearing winter-themed clothing with Anthony describing that the clothes gave off a weird smell and had doubts to the clothes' cleanliness.

#### Happy Holidays!: Travel

As Irwin had invited Candy JEM to go with him on a trip to Langkawi, Joni attempted to tag Alex and Zara along- eventually, Alex (and Zara) was unable to come as plans were held between her and Anthony during that period of time.

#### Season of Blossoms: Growing Up

Emilia said that if Anthony was looking for Alex, she was not eating with them today. This made Anthony blush while saying that he was not looking for Alex.

#### A Class Effort: Leadership

Anthony told Alex what was the theme of his class' booth for the school's bazaar.

#### More Than Friends: Feelings

Carly claimed that Anthony and Alex is one of the most famous couples in their school.

#### Athletic Ace: Sports

Alex was seen apologising to Anthony for hurting his wrist and said that it was all her fault that Sacred Hearts Primary School will lose in the basketball match since Anthony was not there. Anthony then reassured her that it was not her fault that his arm was hurt. But even though Anthony assured her, Alex ended up crying and exclaimed that it was all her fault.

#### Be True, Be You: Interests

Anthony asked Alex on what is her interest while patting on her head and she replied that preparing nutritious food is maybe one of her interests. He comforted her that developing an interest does not necessarily have to spend money and he commented that preparing food is somehow his interest. As Candy JEM teased about their mutual interests, both Anthony and Alex were seen blushing madly.

## Evidence

* Whenever someone mentioned something that is somehow related to the events that Alex and Anthony had went through or straightforwardly the relationship between the two, one or both parties tend to blush easily.
* Alex managed to convince Anthony to be Iris' male model for her fashion show, and the two were paired up during the fashion show as they walked along the fashion runway.
* Anthony often prepares and brings food for Alex during schooldays to consume during breaks as the latter was aware about Alex's poverty-stricken background.
* Anthony's rare smiles always occur around Alex.
* Anthony tends to lose his usual stoic and calm demeanor whenever the situation involves Alex who is in trouble.
* Starting from Fruits of Friendship: Nutrition, Anthony would start to pat Alex on her head to comfort her on several occasions.
* During the epilogue of Fruits of Friendship, when Joni brought up the fact that Anthony always prepared lunch by himself for Alex, both Anthony and Alex were seen blushing madly.
* In Boys & Girls Rule!, when Alex was splashed with water by the triplet bullies to protect Anthony and Robin, Anthony was infuriated on why Alex did not know how to protect herself.
* Both Anthony and Alex have the same interests, which is preparing food.
* Anthony was one of the very few people who was unprejudiced by Alex's unclean appearance in Sparkle & Shine and he even helped Candy JEM in helping Alex to improve her house's hygiene condition.
* In More Than Friends, Carly claimed that Anthony, who normally has a cold demeanor, cares deeply for Alex and always brings food for her.
* In Earth Pals to the Rescue, Anthony managed to persuade Mrs. Lawson for letting Alex and Alan to temporarily stay at their house when Alex's house caught a fire and they were forced to temporarily move away from their house.
* When Andrew claimed that Alex was unworthy of Anthony's friendship, Anthony defended Alex by telling Andrew that he had changed and he was disappointed with him.

### Fan Book

In commemoration to *Candy Series* 5th anniversary, an official fan book published by the authors revealed several information regarding Anthony and Alex's relationship.

1. **In a Q&A section, Anthony was asked about Alex:**

* **Question:**  How did you feel when you found out Alex was a girl?
	+ **Anthony's answer:** I was very calm; I wasn't nervous, not one bit.
* **Question:** Why do you prepare the same food for Alex everyday?
	+ **Anthony's answer:** It's the only food I prepare well. I did try preparing other types of food, but failed.
* **Question:** Why do you insist on preparing food for Alex?
	+ **Anthony's answer:** A growing person needs to eat nutritious and balanced meals. I can't allow her to eat meals from unknown sources.

**Alex was also asked about Anthony in the Q&A section**

* **Question:** What food do you prepare for Anthony?
	+ **Question:** I'm not a good cook, so I prepare simple meals like omurice or fried egg with rice...
* **Question:** If you had a time machine, would you go back to the past or to the future?
	+ **Alex's answer:** The past...to tell Anthony I'm a girl, so he wouldn't have been so surprised.

## Among The Fans

Althony is one of the most shipped pairings. The pair even appeared a few times in some of Candy Factory's artworks. This pairing is supported as both Alex and Anthony are supporting characters and because Anthony deeply cares for Alex and is concerned for her safety. This pairing is among the few pairings that had their relationship focused on several books of the Candy Series, such as:

* Sparkle and Shine: Hygiene
* Boys & Girls Rule!: Growing Up
* More Than Friends: Feelings
* Fruits of Friendship: Nutrition
* Earth Pals to the Rescue: Environmental Care

## Other Media

### Candy Cuties

Althony, along with a few other Candy Series couples, appear in some Candy Cuties book. Althony is featured in:

* Candy Cuties Vol.7

## References

1. ↑ Sparkle & Shine: Hygiene, page 87
2. ↑ Happy Holidays!: Travel, page 17
3. ↑ Fruits of Friendship: Nutrition, page 34
4. ↑ Fruits of Friendship: Nutrition, page 143
5. ↑ Fruits of Friendship: Nutrition, page 148
6. ↑ Be True, Be You: Interests, page 22
7. ↑ Fruits of Friendship: Nutrition, page 151
8. ↑ Fruits of Friendship: Nutrition, page 152
9. ↑ Be True, Be You: Interests, page 22