User blog:Zman12346/My exact reasoning behind just why I think Lincoln is such a top tier main character

So some time ago I published an unfinished blog about how I'd rank each sister. I made the section based on each sister long and took a long time to type each section because I wanted to give my justifications as to why I'd put each sister that way. I wanted to use actual content from the show so that I didn't just sound like a babbling idiot.

Here are the sisters I already ranked in said list (from worst to best)

10: Luan (worst). (Because she keeps playing mean pranks on April fools day.) 9: Lynn  (Is a sore loser AND a sore winner. "No Such luck" and "Lynner takes all" are two fan hated episodes. Also quite violent with Lincoln by hitting his arm and slamming him to the ground a lot) 8. Lori  (Despite being the eldest, she treats her younger siblings not too well and often Lincoln is needed to solve the conflict rather than her. She also doesn't see how Ronnie Anne isn't the best person and instead blames Lincoln. Try to think how you'd feel if a bully hit you and gave you a black eye but when you said the bully was a bad person everyone didn't believe you and punished you instead) 7. Lisa (Wanted to take her siblings fun away in "Snow Bored" even though she could have just left them to play without her. Doesn't care that not everyone wants to be a subject of her usually painful experiments. Does however have good amounts of character development in "Friend and Faux) 6. Lola (Actually surprisingly mild. She didn't actually do any of the bad things she said she could do to Lincoln in "Get the message" and in "Toads and Tiaras" didn't blame Lincoln for injuring her at the start of the episode and forgave him for what he did when she saw that Lana won. She also let Lincoln keep his prize ticket. "Read aloud" and "Tattler's tale" shows she is quick to learn new lessons, and "No place like Homeschool" shows she is surprisingly responsible for someone quite young)

And though I might never have the time to justify my reasoning, here are the other sisters rankings in my personal opinion.

5. Lily (In the middle because we don't know what kind of person she will grow up to be. As it stands, she doesn't cause too many problems by herself since she only a baby but in "Two boys and a baby" I found her to be quite bad since she did seem to be going a bit out of the way to cause Lincoln and Clyde annoyance)

4. Lucy (Mostly harmless. Sleuth of consaquences does show some degree of selfishness since she was ready to let Lincoln take the hit for something completely her fault. Sort of like how a guilty convict lets his friend take his place  in prison, or possibly death row for something he did.  Also doesn't do much for Lincoln in return  "Sleuth of consquences", "Space invader" and "Spell it out" may also show a deep seated grudge against her family that needs to be kept under control.)

3. Luna (Definetly much nicer but still not best sister levels of niceness. Did go out of her way to break Lincoln from out of prison in "For Bro's about to rock" but she did also somewhat cause the problem though she did at least leave when Lincoln showed how he wasn't amused at her antics, and she wasn't anywhere as bad as Lynn and Luan in their bad episodes such as "Lynner takes all" and "Apirl fools rules".  Outside of music though, I don't think she does enough for Lincoln or the others to be considered a guardian though.

2. Leni (I'd really really like to put Leni up higher but with how she is written, I sadly must only put her as second best pony. I'm so sorry. She is a really nice person in "One Flu over the Loud house" and "No spoilers" with how she wants to look after her family but its her lack of common sense and skewed sense of empathy that lets her down. Her siblings all seem "Smarter" than her to the extent where I feel Leni can do very little by herself at the moment. But I still think Leni's "Stupidity" needs to be toned down at least a little. She also needs more moments to show that there really is a lot more in her head than just air. Her words not mine."

1. Lana (best) ("Frog Wild" and "Toads and Tiaras" both show that Lana is a moral compass for Lincoln in a way. It helps that in Frog wild, Lincoln voloutntarily decided to go save the frogs without being dragged along by her. To simply put it so that we don't waste any more time off topic.  I legit feel that if one day Lincon was say blackmailed and sent each of his siblings a desperate plea asking for the money needed to save his life,Lana would be first and foremost to try and help. She's like Fluttershy from MLP or Zelda from Legend of Zelda. She would like to do more to help but her words don't carry as much weight as her siblings so its difficult to. She's also only six, so by the time she gets to say Lynn or Lori's age she will be an even better person.

But that aside Let's get to Lincoln.

Lincoln is first and foremost far from just a straight man. He is fun to watch even when he is only by himself with no other characters. He finds a need to talk to a higher power in this case the audience, just because not enough characters in the show care about his opinion enough to listen.

Only very rarely do the sisters talk to the audience. And aside from Ronnie Anne in one episode, no outside characters talk to the audience  ever. I like to feel that this is the metaphor showing how very alone Lincoln feels and how little he realizes he matters to anyone he knows. He thus finds it better to use his breath to talk to a group of strangers he cannot even see and knows nothing about, just so that he can vent out some of the feelings he has been bottling up. The majority of time he talks to us, its about something he feels bad about. Like how Lynn is a sore winner in "Lynner takes all" and how sleepovers were banned in the loud house because of his sisters antics in "Overnight success".

He doesn't tell this to his parents, his friends or his sisters because he knows they do not care enough to listen. Like how Lynn did not care how full his schedule was in "No Such Luck" when she threatend him with a bat and later convinced his family to continue to punish him by leaving him outside. Or how the sisters bickering over very minor things was really affecting him and his family badly in "Brawl in the family."

He talks to us even though he can neither see us nor our reaction to his narration. Kind of like how a very religious person talks to God in their prayers when they feel isolated and sad.

Lola Loud once talked to us in "A tattler's tale". Luan also once looked and talked at us in another episode whose name I forgot. Clearly they know we are here as well. And clearly if they only address us in one or two episodes preferring to talk to other characters in the show instead, does this not prove that they are less depressed than Lincoln or at least have more friends than him.

'''Which brings us to our next point. Lincoln is a victim of horrific abuse, or at least being treated less well than other characters. Even if a character with this trait isn't the best person, this will still endear us to them. '''

Like Squidward from spongebob. When you see enough episodes in the later seasons of him being tortured, you'll start to feel for him despite what he did in earlier episode and really want him to win. Or Eddy from Ed, Edd n Eddy. Yes I know he pulled scams but I for one was really praying for an episode where things turned out well for him.

But in Lincoln's case this makes him an even better character. Lincoln is a good person. Almost every episode starts with him doing something good or at least not anyting jerkish. And it is this kindness that gets him mistreated more often than not. By agreeing to let Lynn into his room in "Space Invader" he was unable to sleep well himself anymore and she didn't treat him well by constantly slamming him to the ground and giving him dutch ovens repeatedly in the rest of the episode. By agreeing to come to Lynn's game in "No Such Luck", she did little but call him bad luck and scold him and this last straw of not being appreciated for his hard work combined with not having any free time to himself to rest, was what drove Lincoln into creating the ploy of being bad luck. Was it really too much to ask for just a little time off without being treated like a outcast?

And then later in "No guts No Lori" when he freed his siblings from Lori's clearly not very friendly leadership, all they did to repay him was completely lose every shred of their sanity by messing the house up, without so much as thanking the guy who gave them such freedom which they were abusing.

There's also "Overnight success". Some of the things the siblings did to Clyde like conducting brain experiments on him (LIsa) and giving him a forceful makeover (Lola) were not things Clyde might necessarily have wanted. The episode also goes to great lengths to show just how hard Lincoln worked to get a little free time with him and just Clyde. Even if the ending is good, the point still stands that they did not ask Clyde if what they wanted to do to him was what he actually wanted, or seeing just how hard Lincoln worked to get his one night with his friend.

Even episodes where Lincoln is not doing good things at the start still have his actions being justified. In "Save the date" he was only angry at Ronnie Anne because she kept doing bad things to him like shoving food into his clothes and punching his eye. And to be fair when we are surrounded by our ahem "Friends", we do tend to have to say what they want to hear to avoid unnessecary beatings in real life. Though the point still stands that some of the beatings Ronnie Anne gave Lincoln in said episode were very cringy so he had a right not to be that nice to her.

In "Shell Shocked" once again, Lincoln was not wrong in being afraid that Ronnie Anne would sabotage their chances of winning the competetion and in keeping the egg to himself when he considered some of the pretty bad things she had done to him.

There's also of course "No such Luck". None of his sisters gave him any free time to himself or wanted to attend his events even though he attended each and every one of theirs, and often ended up on the rough end of said event doing all the hard work. And on top of that, Lynn practically threatend to beat him with a bat and didn't even thank him. It was therefore not wrong for LIncoln to want just a little time to rest, since it is a well known fact that even the most benevolent people need rest from time to time if they are to continue helping those they want to help. And it was not exactly a bad act on his part to make up this white lie of being bad luck since he already saw what Lynn was capable of doing to him if he turned down even one of her requests even politely. (And in an earlier episode, he saw how angry Lola could get over little things, and how Lori threatened to turn him to a "Human Pretzel" over something as minor as stepping into her room) It was also not exactly a lie since Lynn flat out said he was bad luck and he was just going with her suggestion.

'''And this of course comes to the third point that everyone apart from Lincoln it seems is at least somewhat of a hypocrite. Lincoln actually learns lessons from episodes even when he is not the main perpetrator of said episode's problems. He announces each and every thing he has learned however minor, to the audience just to prove he has changed. '''

But his sisters do not learn such lessons. Or at least take a long time to learn them. Lynn was no better in "Lynner takes all" than she was in "No such Luck". "No such luck" which came earlier clearly failed to teach that winning all the time was not possible and that losses should be accepted without being a jerk.

Lori was perfectly fine with being attracted to Hugh in "Study muffin" despite her relationship with Bobby and how angry she would be if Bobby even so much as looked at another girl. She even saw first hand how sad she would be if Bobby left her alone for even a very short amount of time to be with someone else even platonically and non romantically in the episode "A fair to remember" where Bobby went to go play with Lincoln for a while. The fact that Bobby is never seen playing with Lincoln again after that episode says a lot about how firm Lori was in her warning of what would happen to him if he tried to play with anyone but her. So why do the same to Bobby when Lori knows how badly it hurt her,

Luna had to ruin several concerts before she learned that there was a better way to let her siblings enjoy their concerns. Compare this to Lincoln who only needs one episode to learn each lesson.

Luan should have learned in "No laughing matter" that her pranks can hurt others really badly if she isn't careful. But come "Fool's paradise" and "Fool me twice" and she'll completely throw that lesson out of the window. It'd be fine if the pranks were harmless and funny like spongebob's pranks in "Fools in April" but pouring bleach onto Lucy and dumping a pie Lana was allergic to onto her, I'm sure even you'll agree that's a little cruel.

The entire family want Lincoln to be at their events but never attend any of his, or give him any sort of tangible reward for him always being there for them. And in "Changing the baby" they said no to all the things he tried to do with them despite "No Such Luck" when he attended all of their events. I can actually believe that they only did this to be mean to him. And they tried to change Lily, and then scolded him for doing what they did as well.

Ronnie Anne never learns any lesson either. There is no episode where she does not call Lincoln "Lame-o" or where Lincoln doesn't see painful flashbacks of some of the mean things she has done to him.

So here is where I really really love Lincoln. He does great things for his family and "Friends" despite how they rarely reward him in return. "Yes Man" is one small exception which is not enough to compensate for all the other times they aren't that nice to him. Especially when you watch "Heavy Meddle" where they stopped caring about Lincoln's feelings the instant they found out the bully was a girl. Something as irrelevant as gender makes them biased against Lincoln who was clearly the victim. Or "Project Loud House" where the entire family did passive aggresive things to him (Like Lucy reading him a depressing poem, and Lori refusing to drive) and when they did finally do anything nice for him at all, Luan ruins it by dumping water on his teacher's head making her drop Lincoln's grade from A+ to A- for something Lincoln did not do.

'''Which brings us to Lincoln's talent. I really love his talent. His talent is to make his family and friends happy, meaning his talent is whatever it needs to be to solve their problems. He can be good at poetry if it means helping Lucy write her poems. Good at pagaents if it means helping Lola win the next pagaent. Good at driving if it means Leni can learn to drive and his entire family no longer have to be slaves to Lori just to get rides to the important places they have to be. He's sort of like a scope you put on a gun, and his sisters are like bullets. By itself the scope seems useless, but unlike bullets which each only work for one kind of gun, you can put a scope onto any gun and it will be more powerful.'''

Which means that Lincoln is probably the only character I would actually like to meet in real life, as well as one of the only characters I feel make a good main character. (E.g:In MLP, I feel Fluttershy would be better as the main character than Twilight)

He sets a benchmark for all future siblings of both big and small families to follow.

He is what Mario would be like if he had to rescue ten Princesses from ten Bowsers at the same time. Or what Link would be like if Link had to rescue ten Zelda's at the same time Or what Princess Twilight be like if she had to keep ten Equestrias from being conquered at the same time. A sonic that needs to fight ten Dr Eggman's and their combined armies. The list goes on.

He will probably go on to have a memorial museum among other things which make him well regarded by history

And even at his worst in "Out on a Limo" or "Patching things up" I can still root for Lincoln for some reason when I think of how little he is really appreciated.

So I'm out of time and I guess this is the end. Please understand that I'm not trying to force opinions onto anyone and that I completely respect if you don't like Lincoln as much as I do. I'm just trying to show you the reasons why I think Lincoln is so good as a character to me to the extent where I almost wish him to be real. Please do comment though and tell me if you agree or disagree with what I feel. I do appreciated critique. But until then thanks for reading and have a good day.