Louis Tomlinson

Louis Tomlinson (born 24 Dec 1991) is an English singer and oldest member of the boy band One Direction. He also likes football. 
See Wikipedia for details.
On January 23, 2016, Louis announced on Twitter that his son had been born.@Louis_Tomlinson "I'm pleased to say my baby son was born yesterday :) 👶 He is healthy and pretty amazing :) I'm very happy!!" accessed 2016-1-26 A fan created a fake article announcing that the baby's name was Conchobar and it unexpectedly turned into a giant meme.: HYPOTHETICALLY i might’ve photoshopped a fake news article saying that louis tomlinson’s new baby was named conchobar-pronounced-connor based on an inside joke @bigbrotherlouis on Tumblr, posted Jan 26 2016, accessed 2016-01-26 Meanwhile, larries thought that the baby was fake, a theory called babygate.
Louis appears in a lot of fanworks.
==Shipping==
By far the most popular ship involving Louis, and the most popular ship in 1D fandom, is with fellow band member Harry Styles. The ship is called Larry Stylinson. 
Louis is also sometimes shipped with the other 1D members/former members – Liam Payne (LiLo), Zayn Malik (Zouis), and Niall Horan (Nouis), in various OT3 combinations, and in OT5.As of 1 Aug 2015, there were 22,538 works on the Archive of Our Own tagged Louis/Harry, 2168 tagged Louis/Liam, 1492 tagged Louis/Zayn, and 871 tagged Louis/Niall.
In Radio 1 RPF, he is shipped fairly often with Radio 1 DJs Nick Grimshaw (Tomlinshaw) and more rarely with Greg James (Grouis). As of December 5, 2021, there are 1162 Nick/Louis fanworks and 70 Greg/Louis fanworks on AO3.
A popular fan activity in 1D fandom is for fans to write self-insert fics shipping themselves with a 1D band member. On AO3, which skews more toward m/m than other archives, there are 425 Louis/Original Female Character fanworks.
Finally, some number of fans have shipped him with his real-life girlfriend Eleanor Calder. The ship is known as Elounor. After Louis went public with the relationship, Elounor shippers (and other supporters who may not have actively shipped them) engaged in a ship war with Larry Stylinson shippers who believed that Harry and Louis were in a romantic relationship in real life. Larries believe that the Louis/Eleanor relationship is fake, and have repeatedly tried to prove it. Sometimes they do this with various nonsensical theories, the best known and most-often made fun of being that Eleanor was actually twins or even triplets, Tumblr post debunking the theory by user stoppostingintheelounortags, 12 May 2013. As of 25 November 2021, this tumblr post has 542 notes.
On AO3 Larry Stylinson has 38,680 works and Elounor has 1,227 as of December 5, 2021, making it about 31 times less likely to find an Elounor fic as a Larry Stylinson one. (Most fanworks tagged with Elounor have it as a side pairing; there are only 50 fanworks tagged exclusively with Elounor.)
==Tropes & Fanon==
=== Punk!Louis === 
Punk!Louis was a popular Tumblr meme that produced fanart and fanfic. Louis even tweeted about them in supportLouis Tomlinson, tweet: Just seen all these punk edits of pictures of me, makes me want more tattoos !! posted on Dec 17, 2012.
=== Peter Pan!Louis ===
Another Tumblr meme features Louis as Peter Pan. See the AO3 tag and the Tumblr tags louis pan, peter pan louis, and peter panlinson. The meme was around as early as September 8, 2012The first post in the peter panlinson tag was on September 8. The first post in the tumblr account ohtheclevernessofpeterpanlinson was also on September 8., but this popular artwork by jaesamaSo popular it has 18,223 notes as of 1 August 2015 and was uploaded by someone else to Deviantart, where it gained at least 17,259 views, 983 favorites, 133 comments, and 1,165 downloads before it was removed. Another Deviantart user posted a Spanish translation. was posted on July 13.
=== Romantic!Louis===
He is often very romantic and gentle, very sweet and loving to a best friend, a new love or an extremely smutty guy. For example:
* Allure by prismdreams
=== Leader!Louis === 
He is often depicted as the leader of the group, the prankster, the one others will follow in whatever harebrained schemes he devises. For example:
*Accio My Heart by waspabi: A Gryles Harry Potter AU where Louis leads the prank war between Gryffindor and Slytherin.
=== Louis and Kids === 
He is generally good with children, taking care of his many canon siblings, or in kidfic with his own or someone else's child. For example:
*Getting Good At This by pukeandcry, a Tomlinshaw AU where non-famous Louis agrees to help Nick look after his new baby as a favour for Harry. 
* Hold You Closer by harriet_vane, Lilo fic where Liam adopts a baby and Louis helps him take care of her.
* Soft Whispers by prismdreams 
=== Footballer!Louis === 
In AUs he is often written as a footballer, following his canon love of and involvement in the sport. For example:
* Pull Me Under by zarah5: AU. As the first British footballer to come out at the prime of his career, it helps that Louis Tomlinson is in a long-term, committed relationship. Even if that relationship is fake.
=== Sassy!Louis === 
Louis is often "the sassy one", as he is very quick-witted and isn't afraid to give anyone cheek. For example:
* The Disgruntled Novelist's Bodacious Pornographer (or, that time Nick and Louis were rival romance writers) by aliferuined (Tomlinshaw)
* The Sass Account by prismdreams
* Temptations by prismdreams
=== Asshole!Louis === 
The same quick wit might result in him being written as slightly mean and cruel, especially in angsty Larry or Tomlinshaw stories. For example:
* A Reptile Dysfunction by makesomelove, where Louis' meanness gets him transformed into a lizard creature by Little Mix
* Truth be told, I'm lying by mediaville (Larry)
* Life Doesn't Hold Tryouts by prismdreams
=== Angsty!Louis === 
Relatedly, he is often written as insecure and/or troubled, sometimes because of being closeted, internalized homophobia or other issues. For example:
* Pretty much every Louis-centric fic ever written by sunsetmog (I Had Rather Hear My Dog Bark At A Crow, Not Your Fault But Mine etc.)
* Fading by tothemoonmydear (AU where Louis has an eating disorder)
* There's a whole subgenre of Louis with an ED: see this rec list and this AO3 tag, for example.
=== Louis in BDSM === 
The perceived duality of his character means that in bdsm dynamics, he might be convincingly written either as the dominant (Louis Domlinson) or submissive partner. For example:
* Sub: From the Start by mistresscurvy (LiLo Daddykink), All These Secret Places by Randominity (Elounor)
* Dom: Written all over your face by balefully (Nouis), Zayn/Harry/Louis kink series by Littlemousling
=== Bottom!Louis === 
The fannish interest in Louis admittedly having the best ass in One Direction means that where penetrative sex is involed, he is often characterized as a bottom, either enthusiastically or despite himself; in A/B/O stories he is much more likely to be an Omega.As of 1 August 2015, Alpha Louis brings up 73 AO3 works; Omega Louis brings up 262. For example:
* Sweat It Out by lazy_daze (LiLo where Omega!Louis is in heat)
* With love comes strange currencies by mediaville (angsty Larry where Omega!Louis and Alpha!Harry accidentally bonded on the X Factor and have been trying to ignore it ever since)
* you and me, baby by checkthemargins (Omega!Louis and Alpha!Nick are snowed in)
*Tasty Little Treat by playniceliam - Louis Tomlinson/Liam Payne - Louis is the tiny and sweet omega nobody can resist.
=== In Future Fic ===
* In post-band futurefic, Louis is often written as a record label executive. Fanfic fans were very excited when in 2015 the real Louis Tomlinson announced plans to do just that.
==Fannish Resources==
* Fanworks tagged Louis Tomlinson at Archive of Our Own
* Louis Tomlinson podfics at the Audiofic Archive
* this shit is legit: a one direction primer part 5 by tastetheclouds (archived)
==References==
 
Category:One Direction