User blog:Zman12346/Why Lana Loud is the best Loud sister

Seems an odd choice doesn't it? Most fans (about 90 percent) seem to think that it's Luna and the sweet and adorable Lincoln who have the closest relationship out of any of the Loud siblings. And on the topten List, Lynn was rated as being the best Loud house character (Despite how underdevelloped and mean spirited she often is).

So why Lana of all sisters to be rated as the top? Shouldn't I be picking Luna who supposedly has the best bond with our loveable main character, or Leni because she's just that nice of a person despite her slightly below average intelligence? Or how about anyone but the messy, unmannered tomboy who spends her disgusting days rolling in mud and digging through trash. The one who probably smells like poo and other unsavory things half the time. The one that has the least going for her in the way of having a billboard above her head saying "I am number one." so to speak?

Well first of all, Lana has a lot of qualities that I believe a lot of fans vastly underestimate in her.

One of those is that she's probably one of, if not the least demanding sisters in asking Lincoln for help. A common theory I have is that Lincoln is not simply called "Linc" or "Linky" because that's how his name would be if it was shortened, but rather because he links the family together. Having no specified talent sort of means that every sister can find a bit in common with him and could always use him as an extra helping hand to achieving their own life goals, be it writing gothic poetry for Lucy or as an extra hand in the lab for Lisa. I like to think of Lincoln as a scope you add to a gun, and his sisters as different kinds of guns and bullets, in that though he seems untalented at everything at first sight by himself, his help is invaluable to all his sisters and he is useful in many places.

Though each kind of firearm uses a different kind of bullet to make it work (and in the case of Lincoln's sisters they each have very different talents, and very different likes and dislikes), it's not difficult to disagree that almost any kind of firearm can benifit from a scope. Unlike a bullet which usually only works for one type of gun (And because Lincoln is a scope and not a bullet, he feels like an underachiever), a scope can be added to many different kinds of gun. And though a scope seems less powerful than a bullet and a gun by itself, when added to a gun it's usefulness cannot be denied.

And this is where part of Lincoln problem stems from. There are many different guns in the armory that would all benifit from having him (a scope to increase accuracy and effectiveness) yet there is only one of him. And the guns cannot help themselves since each one uses a different kinds of bullet (You can't use 9mm parabellum bullets for a M16 rifle but you can add a scope to both of them).

There is therefore a constant battle for Lincoln and the poor guy will be able to help all of them at once, let alone have time to rest and just do his own thing (which is what leads to the conflict of many Lincoln torture episodes such as the infamous "No Such luck") And I have not seen Lana demand his help nearly as often as I have for the other sisters like Lori and Lynn (who even went so far as to threaten the poor guy with a baseball bat.)

Lana seems to be the only sister that realizes that not everything and everyone must revolve around her brother, as great as he is. To put it in a metaphorical senses, Lana seems to be the only gun to realize that though a scope is undeniably very useful to have, you can still use a gun just fine without it most of the time and you only really need the scope for very particular instances.

Being self sufficient is a good thing because in the grown up and real world, even the nicest people cannot help you all the time and the best person to depend on is ultamitely yourself. Not to mention stretching a helpful person's generosity and taking advantage of their kindness by overusing it can ultamitely lead to the loss of a great relationship and seriously ruin that person's life. But many of his sisters, namely Lori (Who forced him to go on a double date with Ronnie Anne just to stay on good terms with Bobby, completely uncaring to how badly Ronnie Anne treats Lincoln) and Lynn (Who by the end of "no such luck" now only let Lincoln accompany the family once more to take advantage of his so called "good luck" and not because she was remorseful over kicking him away or understanding of just how badly Lincoln was to get a tiny bit of free time for himself after doing so much for all his sisters) don't realize that and expect him to be perfect at attending to their every whim even when they often displease him and shrugh it off like it's no big deal.

If Lana was as repulsive as many fans would think she was, then why did she win the pageant crown in "Toad's and Tiara's" at the end by being herself. Clearly though some of her mannerisms aren't what you'd call refined, they are far from abominable. In the same episode, she was ready to step out of her comfort zone and do everything she was not used to doing just to make her brother happy. I don't think she'd really go all that distance to act princessy and prim if it was just a dairy land ticket on the line.

It is true that Luna had an episode where she tried to help Lincoln get out of jail (titled "For Bro's about to rock"). The problem there is that Luna was the one who caused the problem in the first place. She had also ruined the experiences for many of her other sisters (Who probably each tried to call her out on her behavior to no avail) who even tried to warn Lincoln to be careful of Luna. (If the sisters all go to Lincoln to give him a friendly talk, it's probably something very important since most of the time they aren't that nice to him) In "Toads and Tiaras" Lana did not cause the problem and was giving her help to Lincoln volountarily.

Lynn did try to do the same thing in "the Loudest yard" by helping her brother play in sports he was not prepared to play in himself, and it was a great character development episode for her (Lynn really needs more episodes focusing on her helping others). The problem there was that Lynn watched on as the angry mob turned on Lincoln to probably give him a merciless beating instead of defending him (she was shown to be easily tough enough to stand up to the other sports players earlier that episode, and the fact she is captain of many teams shows that she did have a lot of authority which could easily have been used to persuade the mob to let Lincoln off the hook). In other words, she helped him most of the way through but abandoned him at the moment when it mattered most.

Lana was much better in her episode of helping Lincoln win the tickets. She even tried to warn him that if she went back to her old ways, it would mean neither of them won the dairy land tickets and the way she said it implied she cared more about her brother's reaction to not winning than her own. She also did not try to insult or threaten her brother near the end for trying to change her (The other sisters usually turn on LIncoln for much lesser wrongs, some of which not his fault unlike in this episode) but was calm and understanding throughout the pageant. She even went to the pagaent knowing that her twin Lola would probably be very angry and she only went after warning Lincoln of the dangers and seeing how badly he wanted the dairy land tickets anyway.

(more on this later: BLog unfinished as of yet)