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Lincoln Albert Loud (voiced by Sean Ryan Fox in the pilot "Bathroom Break!!", Grant Palmer in S1E1A-S1E22B, Collin Dean in S1E23A-S3E18A, singing voice by Jackson Petty in S3E17, Tex Hammond in S3E18B-S4E21B, Asher Bishop in S4E23A-S6, Bentley Griffin in S6E5A-present) is an 11-year-old boy (12-year-old season 5 onward) with white hair, who is the middle child and the only son of the Loud family. The character got his name from E Lincoln Avenue in Royal Oak, where the show's creator Chris Savino grew up. Lincoln has a passion for comic books, in particular his favorite superhero Ace Savvy which has a playing card theme.[5] Lincoln is also the family nerd, along with Lisa. Lincoln has other talents like cooking, playing video games, performing magic tricks, and helping his younger sister Lola in preparing for her pageants as her coach. Lincoln wears an orange polo shirt, blue jeans, gray socks, and white sneakers. A recurring trait throughout the series involves Lincoln breaking the fourth wall by talking to the audience about surviving with all of his sisters as well as considering himself the "man with a plan." He tries to give helpful advice when dealing with sibling relationships. Lincoln attends Royal Woods Elementary school with his younger siblings Lucy, Lana, Lola, and Lisa and is a 5th grader there. In "Schooled!", Lincoln starts middle school and faces the challenges of middle school life. He is also a 6th grader there and attends school with his older sibling Lynn as of that same episode.
Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.
