Luan Loud

Luan Loud is a main character in The Loud House.

Biography
Luan is the fourth-oldest child in the Loud family and second youngest of the five older sisters, at 14 years old. Her most annoying habit is telling bad jokes, puns and pulling pranks.

Personality
Though the fourth-oldest of the Louds, Luan has a goofy personality. Luan is a fun-loving girl with a fondness for comedy and making puns. She loves pulling pranks on her siblings and frequently makes puns for every situation (much to her family's annoyance).

She has a taste for everything that is related to comedy - this includes comedy movies and TV series, clowns, pranks, and funny internet videos. She also likes to record people experiencing funny situations with her camera, but when she does this, she asks permission to the person she recorded to allow her to upload the video to the Internet. Luan already knows that it is not correct, uploading videos without permission.

Though Luan is typically one of the kinder siblings, she is unstoppable at pranking, particularly on April Fools Day. When April Fools Day comes, Luan becomes ruthless and crazier than ever. During this day, her pranks can be even more dangerous than before like in "April Fools Rules", where she placed in every corner of the house pitfalls, transforming the entire house in a lethal trap. This is the only time of the year where Luan is thoughtless with her siblings, and even with her parents.

She always has a positive and cheerful attitude. She is very optimistic, as she likes to support her siblings, and especially make them laugh and feel better. In some occasions she can get angry when something "not funny" or annoying happens to her, or her siblings; like in "The Sweet Spot" where she fights against the others to obtain the best seat of Vanzilla, or "It's a Loud, Loud, Loud, Loud, House", when Luan and the others destroyed the whole house looking for money. No matter how bad the problem is she'll find the funny side of the matter.

Nick Description
"Luan Loud loves to make people laugh. From whoopee cushions to squirting flowers to her ventriloquist dummy Mr. Coconuts, Luan is ALWAYS ready for the perfect prank. One thing's for sure...nothing gets this Loud down!"

Appearance
Luan has prominent buck teeth, which sport braces on her upper and lower teeth, and light brown hair worn up in a large ponytail by a yellow scrunchie, with two long protruding hairs sticking out from the center of her forehead.

She dresses in a white sleeveless shirt, a yellow skirt with a square pattern, yellow socks with a line pattern that are worn all the way up, and brown shoes. She also wears three pink flowers, one on her shirt and one on each shoe, that serve as gag squirt-flowers. Her prototype design had a gag flower on her skirt, but none on her shoes. She also didn't have any braces.

Her swimsuit is a yellow one piece with one of her gag-squirt flowers. Her nightware is just a yellow nightgown or a yellow and white nightshirt with matching pants, sometimes she also wears a yellow bathrobe.

In Hand-Me-Downer it's revealed that she has been wearing her braces from a younger age. Then she wore a sleeveless yellow dress with a square pattern, a black belt, white socks, and brown shoes.

Her siblings generally
Luan tells a lot of jokes, but never make any of her siblings laugh. She also plays a lot of practical jokes on them, some of which seems truly mean spirited, like the bucket of water over the door prank on Lincoln in "Project Loud House", which would have ruined his homework project he worked so hard on. In other cases, the impression does comes off that she doesn't mean for anybody's feelings to be hurt.

She's always willing to help them when they have a problem and she does have a generally friendly personality outside of her pranking nature, but can get violent tempered with her siblings, as seen in "The Sweet Spot".

In addition, it is shown in "April Fools Rules" that on April Fools Day she becomes immorally crazy and completely merciless setting pranks everywhere in the house, giving all of her family unhealthy fear of her, even Lola, and their parents, unable to control her. This was to the point Lisa built her own shelter away from her and the others locked themselves in Lincoln's room and nailed it shut with Mahogany boards.

Lincoln
She can at times pull nasty pranks on him but this is likely due to the fact that she is trying to be funny, and isn't really aware that what she did can cause him grief, so it appears that she does it without malicious intentions.

In "Making the Case", he came to her for advice on making funny viral videos, and she happily gave him the idea to always have the camera on. After he humiliated all his sisters Luan was the only one who had any desire to speak with him. She gave him advice on how to fix his relationship with his sisters. When he thought he was going to be expelled from his family in "Ties That Bind", he left her his comic book collection, but she refused them as she didn't want him to leave.

In "Funny Business", Luan makes Lincoln her clown assistant, but Lincoln accidentally gets laughs from the kids and loves it so much, that he starts to take away the attention using pratfalls. The two have a falling out, but eventually make up, and become closer siblings from the experience.

Leni
She and Luan have a good relationship and they can be seen having fun in some episodes. In "Linc or Swim", Leni doesn't know the rules of the game "Marco Polo", much to Luan's annoyance and/or dismay. Because Leni is afraid of spiders, Luan scares her with her plastic spider for fun like in "No Guts, No Glori" and "Along Came a Sister".

Luna
Because Luan has to share a room with Luna, they look to be on good terms. Sometimes Luna helps her being the "band show" or bringing mood music every time Luan is practicing her stand-up comedy puns.

Lily
Luan and Lily have a good relationship. Luan likes making Lily laugh and feel happy. In "Changing the Baby", she tries to implement her interests on Lily because she had nobody that share her likes. In "Homespun", she able to translate Lily's baby language.

Lane Loud
In an alternate universe where the sisters are brothers, Luan is a boy, Lane. Like Luan, Lane is a comedian who tells bad jokes to lighten the situation. However, he acts disrespectful toward Lincoln, mocking him when Luke (Luna) uses him to clean the toilet, when Leon (Lily) bites his thumb instead of kissing it, and when they tease him about Ronnie Anne. He also plays keep-away with Lincoln's time watch to stop him from going back to his own dimension.

In another alternate dimension where he is the brother to a female version of Lincoln named Linka, he is shown to be deeply caring of her.

Lane eventually ceases to exist as it was revealed the entire adventure was a dream.

This version of Luan has a female version of her dummy Mr. Coconuts, named Mrs. Coconuts.

The Joker
In the minicomic Deuces Wild!, Luan interprets the superheroine called The Joker, who is also one of Ace Savvy's sidekicks. Her powers are not shown, as she's only seen mocking the gas monster. In the comic, she is summoned by Savvy (played by Lincoln) alongside the rest of Savvy's deck (played by the rest of her sisters) to help him and One-Eyed Jack (played by Clyde) to defeat the gas monster. After they defeat it, they prepared to fight against a garbage monster.

Trivia

 * Luan often wears a pair of Groucho glasses, which seem to double as actual reading glasses.
 * It is revealed in "Sleuth or Consequences" that Luan records herself sleeping in case she tells a joke in her sleep.
 * A running gag in the series is that Luan always tells horrible jokes, much to her siblings' annoyance.
 * In "Making the Case", it is revealed that Luan has her own comedy-themed website. It is also revealed that Luan has several tapes of Lincoln's past. She also explains that it is wrong to upload video footage of others without their permission.
 * In that same segment, she says the biggest rule when making a video is to always keep your camera running.
 * Her hair is the lightest shade of brown of her brunette sisters.
 * Luan was named after one of Chris Savino's five sisters.
 * In Japan, Luan's name is "リリアン" (Ririan), which roughly translates to "Lillian".
 * Out of all her siblings, Luan is closest to Leni, Luna and Lincoln.
 * Luan's ideal superpower is to turn invisible so she can deliver literal punchlines.
 * Her Polish name is Hilaria, with the nickname "Hila".
 * This name is derived from the word "hilarious".
 * She is the only Loud sibling to wear braces. Although in the past, Lori used to also wear braces, as shown in a picture in the episode "Come Sale Away".
 * Luan, Lincoln, Lily, and Clyde are the only main characters to have buck teeth.
 * Luan wears a similar striped skirt like Luna except hers is yellow.
 * In "Making the Case", Luan is one of five sisters with no trophy in the case. The other four are Lori, Leni, Lucy, and Lana.
 * Along with Lynn, she's the only older sister to not wear earrings.
 * However, it is revealed in "Cover Girls" that her ears are pierced, as she wears Leni's earrings while covering for her.
 * April Fools Day turns Luan into an unforgiving monster.
 * It is revealed in "Homespun", that Luan has the ability to translate Lily's babbling.
 * Luan has a rabbit named Gary, whom she uses in magic acts.
 * She has her own birthday business, called Funny Business Inc, complete with a hot line, and business cards.
 * In "Picture Perfect", "April Fools Rules" and "Funny Business", she has braces on both her upper and lower teeth.
 * Her name in Chinese means "uprising".
 * She is the only main character to have the second syllable in her name emphasized
 * Unless Lynn and Clyde count, since their names are only one syllable.