Lincoln

Lincoln is a major character in the second and third seasons. He initially appeared as a recurring character in the first season. He is portrayed by starring cast member Ricky Whittle and debuts in Twilight's Last Gleaming. Lincoln is the first friendly Grounder presented on the show. He is a warrior from the Woods Clan.

Lincoln is the lover of Octavia Blake. He had an alliance with Finn Collins before Finn massacred his village. Lincoln has uneasy relationships with Bellamy Blake, Clarke Griffin, and Raven Reyes. Octavia once ended her relationship with him to stay with her people.

Lincoln is loyal to his people until they believe he betrayed them with Octavia and then after he becomes a Reaper. He is still shown loyal to his friends and wants to regain the trust of his people. He often aids the Delinquents because of his relationship with Octavia and because he believes what his people are doing to the Sky People is wrong.

After the fall of Mount Weather, Lincoln is trapped at Arkadia, because the Commander placed a kill order on his head. He is treated like an outcast due to him being the only Grounder living there. After Charles Pike becomes Arkadia's new Chancellor, Lincoln is placed into lockup, as Pike sees all Grounders as enemies to the Sky People. Pike orders his execution, as well as Kane's and Sinclair's. Kane and Sinclair escape, but Lincoln remains behind when Pike threatens to kill the rest of the Grounders he had locked up. Pike grotesquely executes Lincoln by shooting him in the head, leaving his body behind in a puddle of mud. Octavia later returns to Arkadia and is able to give him a proper Trikru farewell.

Early life
Lincoln was warrior from the Woods Clan. In his youth, he saw a small dropship come to earth from The Ark. He found a badly injured man inside but because he couldn't speak English yet, he couldn't ask the man what was wrong. He brought the man food and water for three days before finally telling his father. Lincoln was then made to kill the man by his father and was told that the world has always been trying to turn him into a monster.

According to Indra, Lincoln has always questioned the ways of the Woods Clan. At some point, Lincoln met Luna of the Boat People on his travels.

Throughout the Series

 * -|Season One =

In Twilight's Last Gleaming, as Octavia wanders into the woods, she falls down a steep hill and knocks herself out. When she wakes up, she sees Lincoln staring down at her.

In His Sister's Keeper, Lincoln brings Octavia back to his cave and proceeds to seal her leg wound shut and leaves again. The next morning, Octavia escapes his cave and is running through the woods belonging to the Grounders. Lincoln catches her and holds her still to save her from being killed by the other Grounders who kill Roma instead. As he carries her back to his cave, she pleads with him to help her brother who is also out there. He chains her up so she won't escape again and heads back out. When Bellamy, Monroe, Finn, and Jasper are under attack by the hostile Grounders, Lincoln sounds a horn to falsely warn the Grounders of an incoming Acid Fog. He returns to the cave and is about to unlock Octavia's chains when she knocks him out with a rock. He awakens to see that the delinquents had followed him back to his cave and were now planning to kill him, but Octavia defends him. When Finn takes his horn, Lincoln stabs Finn in the chest. He then goes after Bellamy and is about to stab him in the neck when Octavia distracts him, allowing Jasper to knock him out again.

In Contents Under Pressure, Lincoln is carried into the drop ship by Bellamy and two other Delinquents. He is tied up and brutally interrogated even as Octavia tries to stop it from happening. His bag is looked through and a collection of vials and a journal are found. The journal shows he's been spying on the Delinquents and has taken a particular fancy to Octavia. Clarke soon realizes that the blade Lincoln had stabbed Finn with was poisoned and she and Bellamy escalate the torture as they try to get Lincoln to reveal the antidote. After Raven begins to electrocute him, Octavia intervenes and cuts herself with the poisonous knife because she knows he won't let her die. Lincoln helps Octavia find the correct antidote to save her (and Finn). Later on, Clarke tries to clean his wounds but he sees Octavia enter the room and refuses to let Clarke do so. Octavia walks over to help and he allows her to clean up his wounds. After Clarke leaves, he then speaks for the first time, thanking Octavia for helping him.

In Day Trip, when he is visited by Octavia again, he reveals to her that his name is Lincoln. She continues tending to his wounds and they talk about the relationship between the Delinquents and him. Lincoln states he is the enemy and that it's dangerous for them to speak to one another. Later, Octavia gives Miller, his guard, hallucinogenic nuts to help Lincoln escape. She cuts Lincoln down and helps him get dressed. As he is leaving, he turns back and kisses Octavia passionately before sneaking out of the drop ship. Once outside, though, Finn sees him and the two stare at each other briefly before Finn gestures for him to leave the camp. Lincoln then runs into the shadows of the nearby woods.

In Unity Day, Octavia leaves camp to meet up with Lincoln, who has left her white flowers along the way to his cave. She tries to sneak up on him since he has been training her to be a warrior. He tells her she is getting better and they kiss and have sex. Afterward, as Lincoln helps Octavia back out of his cave, Finn suddenly appears, brandishing the blade that Lincoln had stabbed him with. Finn suggests forming a truce between the Grounders and the Delinquents and Lincoln agrees. The three arrange a meeting between his leader (Anya) and Clarke. Later, at the bridge where the meeting is taking place, Lincoln stands beside Octavia and Finn. When Jasper spots grounders in the trees, he opens fire at them and Anya's accomplices shoot arrows back at the delinquents. As an arrow flies toward Octavia, Lincoln shields her and is hit in the shoulder with it. He breaks it off, saying it is only a scratch and tells the delinquents to keep running till they get back to their camp.

In I Am Become Death, Lincoln leaves a white flower outside the Camp to get Octavia out of camp before Murphy showed up, carrying hemorrhagic fever. Octavia sees the flower but ends up being the one to find Murphy. Later, after the disease is sweeping through the camp, Clarke sends her to Lincoln to find out if there is a cure. Lincoln is glad to see that she is one of the "strong ones" and did not contract the fever. He states there is no cure and that Anya uses the virus to weaken their opponents and she's planning to attack the delinquents at dawn. Because of Octavia, his clan now thinks he is a traitor so he is leaving. He also asks Octavia to run away with him across the sea to another clan that would take them both in. She agrees, but first, she has to warn the delinquents of the impending attack. After Bellamy falls sick, however, Octavia returns to Lincoln's cave to tell him that she's going to stay behind with her people.

In The Calm, Anya tells Clarke that it was Lincoln who told her of Clarke's medical expertise.

In We Are Grounders (Part 1), Lincoln has decided to stay behind and help the delinquents. He disguises himself as the grounder who is supposed to execute Clarke and takes her away to the signal fire he lit where he reveals that he has also rescued Finn. In order to escape the grounders chasing after them, Lincoln leads the two into a set of mine tunnels inhabited by Reapers. He is shot by an arrow in his side and Clarke assists him with his injury. While she's pushing the arrow through, Finn asks him why he is helping the delinquents. Lincoln tells them it is because he does not agree with what the grounders are doing to them. When they stumble upon a Reaper dinner party in the mines, Lincoln gets their attention by killing one and then he leads the rest of the reapers away down a tunnel so Clarke and Finn can safely traverse through another tunnel that leads to the camp.

In We Are Grounders (Part 2), Finn shows up at Lincoln's cave, looking for medicine for an injured Raven. Lincoln had just barely escaped the Reapers and Finn takes Bellamy's idea of using the Reapers to help them fight the Grounders. Lincoln and Finn then round up the Reapers and get them to chase them back to the drop ship where the Grounders are getting ready to fight the Delinquents. While the Grounders and the Reapers are fighting each other, Lincoln arrives at the camp. He finds Octavia with an arrow in her leg and, with Bellamy's blessing, takes Octavia away to save her.


 * -|Season Two =

In The 48, Lincoln is taking care of an injured Octavia by a river, teaching her the Grounder language to pass as a grounder when they get to the sea. He removes the arrow from her leg, only to discover that the tip was poisoned and so was Octavia. He sets out to find beetles by the river, whose body contains the antidote but is unable to find any before Octavia worsens. He decides to go back to his village to retrieve the antidote, despite Octavia's warnings that they will slowly kill him (Death by a 1000 cuts) for betraying them. He leaves Octavia by a statue of Abraham Lincoln and heads to his village to save her.

In Inclement Weather, Lincoln is captured by Indra and the rest of his clan in revenge for him betraying his clan. In an attempt get him back, Octavia abducts Nyko and uses him to swap for Lincoln as Nyko is the clan's only healer. When the swap is made, Reapers ambush them and take Lincoln and Nyko with them.

In Reapercussions, Octavia offers herself as bait to help Indra and the rest of Lincoln's clan to get the reapers who took Lincoln and Nyko. They succeed, however, only Nyko is rescued as Lincoln is not with them. Lincoln had been taken to Mount Weather where Dr. Tsing is picking out grounders for a specific task (Harvest Project). When she comes across Lincoln, she tells the Mountain Men to take Lincoln to "the Cerberus Program."

In Many Happy Returns, Octavia blows Lincoln's Acid Foghorn in order to call off a Grounder attack on some of the Delinquents. She is reunited with her brother, who offers his sympathy when he learns that Lincoln didn't make it to safety.

In Human Trials, Lincoln is strapped down to a gurney in a small room at Mount Weather. Cage Wallace arrives and begins injecting him with some sort of red drug while using a device that emits a loud tone during the drug's harsh onset and also while they're electrocuting Lincoln. Some time passes and it's implied that Lincoln is becoming conditioned when another grounder is put in the room with Lincoln and a single dose of the chemical. Both then fight to the death for the drug with Lincoln eventually winning and injecting himself with the drug.

In Fog of War, he is spotted by Octavia and Bellamy in a small garage feasting on a body. It does not take them long to realize that Lincoln is not himself anymore and Octavia tries to tell him that it's her but he attacks her anyway. After Octavia pushes him off her, Lincoln goes after Bellamy, causing Octavia to shoot him, wounding him in the leg. After they escape Lincoln, they come to the conclusion that Lincoln has become a Reaper. Eventually, the two come up with a plan to lure Lincoln out and Lincoln takes the bait, causing Bellamy to pull out an Ark guard's stun stick, hitting Lincoln with it and knocking him out.

In Long Into an Abyss, Bellamy and Octavia take Clarke to the drop ship where they have tied up Lincoln once again. When Clarke tries to get close, he breaks free and starts attacking everyone. Eventually, Octavia hits him over the head and knocks him out. Nyko shows up as Lincoln's condition is getting worse and Octavia brings him to the drop ship to help Lincoln. Clarke figures out that Nyko is actually trying to mercy-kill Lincoln and stops him. She realizes that the Grounders have been trying to bring back Reapers and failing and sees it as a possible way to stop Lexa from ordering the attack on Camp Jaha. Lincoln stops breathing again when the grounders arrive, causing Octavia to believe him dead. He is eventually revived by Abby, who uses the Ark guard's stun stick to give him an electrical shock and revive him.

In Spacewalker, Clarke visits Lincoln who is recovering from being a Reaper. He is still restrained because he feels he is still a danger to others. Abigail Griffin asks Lincoln how to negotiate with Lexa in order to save Finn but he says there is no way out of it and Finn must die. Octavia asks what would happen to him and Lincoln tells them that because Finn killed 18, he will suffer 18 deaths as a result. Clarke asks how he can say that about his friend and Lincoln tells Clarke that some of the dead Finn had massacred were Lincoln's friends, too. Later, Marcus Kane and Abby are talking with Lincoln and Octavia again and ask if Lexa would be willing to accept a deal where the Sky People put Finn on trial instead. Lincoln tells them it's not possible because Finn killed innocent people and they're already lucky because if it were up to Indra, all of the Sky People would be dead. Abby decides she needs to speak with Indra.

In Remember Me, Lincoln travels with the Sky People on their journey to Tondc to finalize their alliance with the Grounders. While camping for the night, Indra mutters "natrona" (traitor) to him, much to Lincoln's displeasure. He is then comforted by Octavia who wants to help him recover emotionally from his Reaper experience, however, Lincoln wishes not to speak of it. During Finn's cremation, Lincoln translates the words of Lexa when she is speaking the ritual for the burning. When Gustus is poisoned at the alliance banquet, all the grounders lock up the Sky People to determine who it was, including Lincoln, whom Indra says is one of the Sky People now. When the grounders decide that Raven was responsible, Lincoln tries to stop them but Nyko quickly interrupts saying that Lincoln and the rest of the Sky People should leave immediately. It is soon revealed that Gustus poisoned himself and framed Raven in order to protect Lexa by breaking the Grounder-Sky People alliance. Later, Lincoln agrees to take Bellamy through the Reaper tunnels and into Mount Weather. He tells Octavia to remain behind to help solidify the Grounders-Sky People alliance since she knows both of their ways now.

In Survival of the Fittest, Lincoln spears an animal and cuts it open. He smears blood on his face along with limestone to enhance his Reaper disguise. While walking, Bellamy asks why he protected Octavia before he knew her. Lincoln tells Bellamy of a man he came across who also came from the sky. He says he didn't understand the man but tried to help him. Three days after finding him, he told his father about him and his father made him kill the man.

Later when they finally arrive at the entrance to the Reaper mines, Lincoln appears hesitant but goes on anyway. When they are in the tunnel, the two discuss the plan to infiltrate and Lincoln again says he doesn't think he can do it. A Reaper raiding party appears, however, and Lincoln quickly grabs Bellamy, strips him of his clothes, and uses him as a prisoner to keep their ploy from being discovered. When they arrive at the underground entrance to Mount Weather, Bellamy and the other captured grounders are marked for harvesting. Lincoln is unable to resist the red drug and leaves Bellamy to fend for himself.

In Coup de Grâce, Octavia tells Clarke that she is worried about Lincoln because he should be back from the mines by now. Clarke calms her by telling her that he and Bellamy are going to be all right.

In Rubicon, he attacks a grounder, Atohl from the Ice Nation, to drag him to Mount Weather in exchange for more of the red drug. Octavia stops him and tells him that Bellamy successfully made it into Mount Weather. She then hits him, saying that he either needs to get up and fight or "crawl away and die alone like a coward." Lincoln goes with her and they arrive after the bombing of Tondc, witnessing the destruction caused by the missile.

In Resurrection, Lincoln and Octavia come under fire from a sniper from Mount Weather who helped set the location for the missile. When they discover that they can't get to safety or help the injured while the sniper is still shooting, Lincoln goes to stop him. He runs into Clarke and Lexa and they go together after the shooter. When Lincoln attacks the shooter, the shooter uses a tone generator to incapacitate him and holds Lincoln hostage with a knife while pointing a gun at Clarke. Lincoln tells Clarke to let the man kill him and then shoot the Mountain Man because her people need her. Clarke replies, "You are my people," and kills the sniper in one shot through Lincoln's shoulder. Lincoln returns with the others to Tondc and reunites with Octavia. He is also accepted back by Indra after she had previously called him traitor and a Reaper, refusing his help with her injuries from the missile and the sniper. The two hug.

In Bodyguard of Lies, Octavia is supposed to be on a scouting mission with Lincoln when Ryder tells her to go stand watch instead.

In Blood Must Have Blood (Part 1), he listens as Lexa and Clarke explain the plan to break into Mount Weather. Later, at the front entrance of Mount Weather as they attempt to break in, David Miller starts to get nervous. Lincoln tells him to stay put and do it for his son. When the Grounders are pinned down by the Mountain Men and are unable to detonate the charge at the door, Lincoln shoots a flaming arrow at the charge, setting it off. After Lexa betrays Clarke and the Sky People, Lincoln tries to intervene but Lexa has Lincoln apprehended.

In Blood Must Have Blood (Part 2), he is tied to a tree in a grounder camp. Indra walks up to him and places a knife beside him, telling him Octavia has already made her choice and now he has to choose whether to stay here or march on to Mount Weather, but if he does he will be breaking the Grounder alliance with the Mountain Men. Lincoln takes the knife and heads toward Mount Weather and Octavia.

While traveling through the woods he comes across Cage Wallace, the man who turned him into a Reaper in the first place. Cage tries to control him with his tone generator and brings out a dose of the Reaper drug but Lincoln fights through the high frequency and slices Cage's hand off. Lincoln overcomes his addiction to the red drug and injects it into Cage instead, killing him. Lincoln later returns to Camp Jaha along with Octavia and the rest of the Sky People who escaped Mount Weather.


 * -|Season Three=

In Wanheda (Part 1), three months after the events at Mount Weather, Lincoln lives in Arkadia where he is sparring with Bellamy while a group of people, including Monroe and Harper, watch. Lincoln wins the fight and tells them that Bellamy was too aggressive and that is why he lost. Harper comes over with a bag for Lincoln and inside is a Guard’s jacket that the Council wants him to wear. Lincoln tells him he is Trikru and Bellamy tells everyone that they can make the uniform mean something different down here than it meant up on the Ark. He tells Lincoln that Octavia will eventually understand. Bellamy goes to leave for a mapping mission of Sector 7, which Lincoln says puts them on the Ice Nation border and asks to go along. Bellamy tells him he can’t because of Lexa’s kill order on his head.

Abby, Jackson, and Lincoln come running to the gates of Arkadia as Octavia, Miller, and Raven bring back the injured Jasper. Jackson takes Jasper to Medical as Abby asks Raven about Clarke. Octavia comments negatively on Lincoln wearing the Guard jacket and walks away from him to take care of her horse. Abby helps Raven off her horse because she can’t get down on her own. Raven limps off to take care of her horse on her own.

Abby has called Lincoln to see her in Medical and tells him about her plans to make another trip to Mount Weather for medical supplies. Lincoln warns her that it might start to look like the Skaikru are colonizing the Mountain, which would break the truce. Jasper comes stumbling out of Medical with Jackson chasing after. Jasper claims he is fine as Raven arrives and says he is not fine. Abby lets Jasper go as long as he promises to come back in the morning. She dismisses Lincoln and tells Jackson she will be back in Medical in a minute.

Lincoln approaches Octavia where she is brushing down her horse, Helios, and asks how they are doing in Trigedasleng. Octavia comments that he can still speak it at least. She tells him that he might wear the Guard jacket but he will never be one of the Skaikru. He tells her there cannot be an “us or them” and that Kane and Abby are trying for peace like he is. Octavia thinks they are using Lincoln and tells him she doesn’t want them to live with the Skaikru and wants them to go far away to Luna’s clan. Lincoln says they can’t because Luna is hiding. Octavia starts crying and Lincoln tells her Trikru is in the heart and goes to kiss her but Octavia is too bothered by the jacket and turns away and leaves.

Lincoln no longer wears the guard jacket as he enters his and Octavia’s room in Arkadia but Octavia is not there. He goes out to the forest where she sleeps and brings her a blanket, placing it over her before lying down behind her and wrapping her in his arms.

In Wanheda (Part 2), at Arkadia, Lincoln and Octavia wake up outside the walls and start to make out. A guard shouts from the walls that there is a "fighter" approaching, disrupting them. Octavia is worried because of the Kill Order on Lincoln and they start heading toward the wall. They spot Nyko on horseback, badly injured. He asks for Abby and Lincoln asks him who hurt him. Nyko tells him it was the Ice Nation. Nyko has lost a lot of blood and they bring him to Medical. Jackson types him and it comes up Rhnull. Octavia offers her arm to give blood as a universal donor but her blood won't work. Lincoln then offers his arm and Jackson types him as not a match. Jackson suggests using Mount Weather's medical facility because they have the equipment needed for a blood transfusion to save Nyko. Abby tells him they can't do it but he argues with her that they need to do it to save Nyko's life. Abby asks Lincoln about the supply runs jeopardizing their peace and Lincoln tells Abby to save Nyko.

At Mount Weather, Lincoln, Abby, and Jackson are rushing Nyko to the medical area. Octavia tells Jasper not to do anything stupid before following after them. Later, Abby approaches Lincoln in the old blood treatment room of Mount Weather and tells him Nyko is waking up. Lincoln tells Nyko that taking him to the Mountain was the only way to save him. Nyko thanks Abby for saving his life. Lincoln wants to move Nyko from the Mountain because of all the death the Mountain caused. Nyko tells Lincoln that their people are wrong and places aren't evil; people are. Jackson tells Abby that opening up Mount Weather could do a lot of good for both the Sky People and Trikru. Abby agrees to it.

In Ye Who Enter Here, Kane discusses with Abby their objectives at the summit meeting: lifting Lincoln's kill order, opening trade, and getting Clarke back. Later, Octavia reveals to Bellamy that once the kill order is lifted off Lincoln, they will finally be able to leave.

In Watch the Thrones, Lincoln is at the Mount Weather memorial when Pike's followers are panicking about the grounder army that is outside the wall. One of Pike's followers, Shawn Gillmer, throws a rock at Lincoln's head, telling him he doesn't belong. Abby tells Lincoln to go medical which he doesn't do at first. He instead goes outside and falls over before saying to himself, "ge smauk daun gyon op nodotaim."

Lincoln is seen in medical getting stitches on his head wound where he emphasizes that he won't be pressing charges. Octavia enters medical and tells Lincoln that now that the kill order is lifted they can finally leave. Lincoln, however, refuses saying the only way the Farm Station survivors will see him as different than other grounders is if he stays. He then reassures her that everything will pass.

In Hakeldama, Lincoln is first seen angry at Bellamy for killing the army sent to protect them. Bellamy then says that the Trikru are the same as the Ice Nation which greatly upsets Lincoln. Later that day in the medical, Pike arrests the sick grounders since they are a liability. Lincoln is furious since some of them are too sick to even walk or move. When Gillmer goes to restrain he beats him to the ground and Lincoln is placed in lock-up with the sick grounders.

In Terms and Conditions, after Sinclair arrives in lock-up he tells Lincoln to get ready for Kane's plan. When Bellamy arrives at the cell, Sinclair requests immunity as the chief engineer and begins to pretend to Bellamy of their plan. Lincoln approaches Sinclair seemingly angry he'd betray the others to save his own skin. He begins beating Sinclair and when Bellamy opens the cell to pull him off a full riot breaks out. This is used to distract the guards while Kane takes Pike to the grounders. However, Monty overhears Kane, Harper, and Miller on the radio and the plan fails since Bellamy reaches the gate before Kane does.

In Stealing Fire, Lincoln is first seen in lock-up when he and Sinclair and sentenced to death alongside Kane. Octavia, however, constructs a plan to free him. Bellamy meets with Octavia at the dropship in order to help her free Lincoln but she instead sedates him and chains him up in a cave. Octavia arrives in Arkadia and begins to put her plan into action. The prisoners are all taken to a room and Pike tells the guards to shoot anyone who comes near. However, the prisoners hide under the floorboards which gives time for the guards to be drugged and for Octavia, Miller, and Abby to get into the room. Harper keeps in radio contact with Octavia and informs her that the exit is not clear, luckily Monty creates a diversion for the guards so the prisoners can escape. Pike, however, catches on and tells the prisoners that there will be an execution today and if they all leave the sick grounders will be killed in their place. Octavia begs for Lincoln to leave with her but he tells her he can't let the grounders die. Octavia says then they'll fight together but Lincoln instead gives her a goodbye kiss before sedating her and handing her to Kane, telling him to take care of her. Lincoln then goes and surrenders himself to Pike. He is brought outside to a puddle of mud and forced to kneel in it as a gun is aimed at his head. Pike asks him if he has any last words but Lincoln says "not for you". He catches sight of Octavia in the distance and tells her "meibi oso na hit choda op nodotaim" (may we meet again), before Pike shoots him the head, killing him instantly.

In Fallen, when the resistance enters the cave and Bellamy asks where Lincoln is. Octavia reveals that Pike shot him in the head before she proceeds to beat up her brother.

In Demons, Octavia, Clarke, Jasper, Raven, Sinclair, Bellamy, and Monty return to Arkadia. Octavia finds Lincoln's journal and begins to break down. Jasper tells her it's ok to break down but Octavia tells him that "a warrior doesn't mourn her losses until the war is over." She later finds Lincoln's body and sobs before kissing his forehead and she is able to give him a proper Trikru farewell.

In Join or Die, when Bellamy asks Octavia how long she is going to remain upset with him she says she can't even look at him because when she does, all sees is Lincoln's death.

Personality
Lincoln is very introverted, serious and calm. He generally speaks when spoken to, and even then, he tends to speak as little as possible, choosing to be concise and direct. He always has a serious expression on his face, rarely smiling for any reason. He is always thinking about survival and his duties to his people, whether it be Arkadia or the Woods Clan. Even under great stress, such as being tortured, finding out his village was attacked, being chased by reapers and attacked without provocation, Lincoln does not express any emotion. He is very hard working and rarely engages in recreation or humor of any sort, as he lets his own work dominate his life. He burdens himself with the well-being of Octavia, the Sky People and the Woods Clan, and always gets involved in major political issues.

Lincoln is a non-conformist, who always questioned the ways of the Woods Clan he grew up in and is willing to risk his own life to do what's right, even if it's against the traditions of his people. His non-conformist views drove him to betray the Woods Clan to help the Delinquents on multiple occasions and disobeying orders in favor of morality and altruism. He is likely among the least prejudiced and open minded people in the entire series, as he cares for all people, not just his own clan. Being both moral and rational, he seeks peace among his own people and the Sky People in spite of previous armed conflicts that have taken place and soured relations, which shows that he is a visionary who understands what needs to be done to ensure long-term prosperity.

Lincoln is a creative problem solver who engages in thinking in the long term. One example of this is creating a plan that involved attempting to flee to the coast to escape the armed conflict between the delinquents and Woods Clan. Another notable example involves a plan to pretend to be a reaper to infiltrate Mount Weather. He frequently assists Arkadia by providing insight to predict future events related to Arkadia - Woods Clan relations. Lincoln carries a book, which he uses to document what he sees and make maps. What Lincoln lacks in academic knowledge, he makes up for in practical knowledge.

Physical Appearance
Lincoln has brown skin, brown eyes, and a shaven head. He has a muscular build and has tribal tattoos on his head, back, chest, and arms.

Relationships

 * -|Octavia Blake =

Octavia Blake
Lincoln first met Octavia when she had been injured after falling from a steep hill. He took care of her injuries and he saved her from being found by the other grounders and she thanked him for his help. After her brother, Bellamy, finds her, he takes Lincoln hostage and begins torturing him, much to Octavia's dismay. Octavia frees Lincoln in Day Trip while her brother is gone and the rest of the delinquents are hallucinating from some bad nuts. In Unity Day, Lincoln takes an arrow for Octavia, saving her life. He saves her life again in We Are Grounders (Part 2) when he leaves with her in the midst of battle because of the arrow in her leg.

In The 48, Lincoln returns to his village and almost certain death in order to get medicine to treat Octavia's poisoned wound. After he is captured by Reapers, Octavia does not give up hope of finding him, finally succeeding in Fog of War. Octavia then works with Bellamy and Clarke to revert Lincoln back from a Reaper into a Grounder in Long Into an Abyss and continues helping him in his struggle to overcome his addiction to the Reaper red drug in Rubicon. In Blood Must Have Blood (Part 2), Lincoln again picks Octavia over the Grounders and risks the alliance between the Mountain Men and the Grounders in order to go after Octavia at Mount Weather.


 * -|Bellamy Blake =

Bellamy Blake
Bellamy and Lincoln at first meeting have a hostile relationship as Bellamy thought that Lincoln had kidnapped his sister. Bellamy also suspects that Lincoln has taken a liking to Octavia after seeing sketches of her in his journal. This all leads to Bellamy torturing Lincoln in order to extract information on the Grounders and on how to save Finn. In Unity Day, Bellamy discovers the extent of Octavia's and Lincoln's relationship when he sees them embracing and then when Lincoln saves her life. Eventually in We Are Grounders (Part 2), Bellamy sees him as an ally and allows him to take Octavia to safety in order to save her from her arrow wound.

Bellamy helps Octavia capture a Reaper Lincoln in Fog of War and they bring him back to the drop ship so Clarke can try to save Lincoln in Long Into an Abyss. In Survival of the Fittest, Bellamy then joins forces with Lincoln in an attempt to infiltrate Mount Weather but Lincoln gives into his reaper addiction and leaves Bellamy at the mercy of the Mountain Men. Lincoln finds out in Rubicon that in spite of him deserting Bellamy, Bellamy had still successfully made it into Mount Weather.


 * -|Indra =

Indra
"He should be dead."

- Indra to Octavia regarding Lincoln in Inclement Weather.

Indra is Lincoln's chief. She captured Lincoln for helping the enemy (Octavia) while their clan was weak. After Octavia demands a swap for Nyko, Indra's only healer, she agrees to let Lincoln go. When Octavia gets angry that Lincoln is injured, Indra states that Lincoln should be dead, implying that they would have finished the "death by a thousand cuts" punishment for Lincoln since he had betrayed his clan.

Indra continues to view Lincoln as a traitor to his people, even when he digs her out of the rubble after the Tondc bombing and carries her to safety when she is hit by the sniper. After Lincoln returns from killing the sniper, Indra welcomes him back with a handshake and a hug. Later, Octavia tells Indra it meant a lot that she forgave Lincoln. After Lincoln is tied up for not wanting to retreat with the grounders when Lexa called a truce with the Mountain Men, Indra leaves him a knife so he can free himself and find Octavia.


 * -|Nyko =

Nyko
"Lincoln was a good man. He was my brother."

- Nyko to Octavia about Lincoln in Reapercussions.

Nyko is friends with Lincoln. Nyko was willing to help save Octavia and go against his own people even though he could be punished for it in order to help Lincoln. He thinks of Lincoln as a brother and was willing to mercy-kill him when he thought Lincoln had irrevocably turned into a Reaper. Later, after Raven is accused of poisoning Gustus and the Sky People are told to run, Nyko and Lincoln bid farewell.


 * -|Finn Collins =

Finn Collins
Finn had been stabbed and poisoned by Lincoln in self-defense. Even when tortured, Lincoln refused to tell the Delinquents the antidote to save him and only did so when Octavia risked her own life by cutting herself with the same poisoned knife used to stab Finn. Eventually the two attempt to work together to bring peace with the Grounders but this ultimately fails and starts a war. After Finn slaughtered Grounder innocents, however, Lincoln wishes to see Lexa's punishment through because Finn had massacred his village.

Killed Victims

 * Unnamed Sky Man when he was a boy
 * Vik who was supposed to execute Clarke and Finn
 * A Reaper to distract the other Reapers in order to save Clarke and Finn
 * Another Grounder who was being turned into a Reaper in Mount Weather
 * A Camp Jaha Guard (with Reapers)
 * Sgt. Scott (with Reapers)
 * Cage Wallace

Notes and Trivia

 * Lincoln has a collection of books in his cave including drawings of the Earth and the environment. This shows he has been scouting for the Woods Clan for a while. They also show that he is artistic.
 * He has a map of the Reaper tunnels
 * There are at least two drawings of Octavia
 * He drew the river monster and a nuclear explosion on his cave wall.
 * He uses feathers for bookmarks
 * There is a picture of the river serpent that attacked Octavia
 * There are several images of the Mountain Men and the Reapers
 * He drew a couple of pictures of the drop ship and has been keeping track of the Delinquents and their fatalities.
 * He was the first indication that there are multiple Grounder factions on Earth.
 * Lincoln was the first Grounder to be kind to the Sky People.
 * It is assumed that Lincoln's name comes from President Abraham Lincoln.
 * After Human Trials, he became addicted to the drug that he was injected with.
 * In Long Into an Abyss, Lincoln is cured and is no longer a Reaper.
 * In Survival of the Fittest, he is shown to continue to struggle with his addiction when he sacrifices Bellamy for another dose.
 * He is also seen attempting to capture Atohl, another Grounder, in Rubicon to continue his addiction.
 * In Blood Must Have Blood (Part 2), he resists the drug when Cage offers it to him and injects it into Cage instead.
 * Lincoln is currently the only Grounder to ever reside in Arkadia.
 * There is no stunt double for Lincoln's stunts. Ricky does the stunts himself.
 * Lincoln was the first Grounder character credited as a Main Character and was the only Grounder on the main cast for two seasons.
 * Lincoln was supposed to survive Season Three.
 * Ricky Whittle claims he left The 100 because of bullying from Jason Rothenberg.
 * Lincoln was still supposed to survive the season but the show-runner, Jason Rothenberg, decided to kill him off instead.
 * Ricky returned for the episode, Demons, so Octavia could give Lincoln a proper Trikru farewell.