An eventful summer for the friend circle of Lincoln Loud and Ronnie Anne Loud (nee Santiago) was about to continue. Lincoln and Ronnie Anne had gotten married the month before. Now it was the turn of their respective best friends forever, Clyde McBride and Sid Chang, to get married.
Clyde and Sid first met when the former came with Lincoln to Great Lakes City to investigate a haunting at the Great Lakes City Music Hall. Sid and Ronnie Anne had won a contest to be in a 12 is Midnight music video. The shoot was marred by supernatural occurrences, instigated by the ghost of a classical musician, Narcisso Grillo, who did not like music that wasn't classical.
Narcisso was persuaded to let the music video shoot continue when 12 is Midnight, having been transformed into musical instruments, started playing a symphony. He realized that 12 is Midnight valued music after all, and turned them back into humans.
Clyde and Sid didn't see each other again until they were 17, when they, along with the rest of Lincoln and Ronnie Anne's friend circles, attended the wedding of Lincoln's oldest sister Lori and Ronnie Anne's older brother Bobby.
Both had aged gracefully in the five years since the Narcisso Grillo incident, which led to them finding each other beautiful, and feeling a romantic connection that was not there five years before, granted they were just 12 years old then.
The respective friend circles of Lincoln and Ronnie Anne, which became one at Bobby and Lori's wedding, were excited that Clyde and Sid had fallen in love, especially Lincoln and Ronnie Anne themselves.
During their respective senior years of high school, Clyde and Sid maintained a long-distance relationship like Bobby and Lori had, as well as Lincoln and Ronnie Anne.
Once Lincoln, Ronnie Anne, and all their friends graduated from high school, they all made the decision to attend the University of Michigan together, dividing into three dorm rooms all next to each other, with one containing the female members of the friend group – Ronnie Anne, Nikki, Sid, and Stella – and the male members divided into two groups, one consisting of Lincoln, Clyde, Sameer, and Rusty, and the other consisting of Zach, Liam, Casey, and Laird.
The 12 friends decided they wanted to create their own comic book company in adulthood, so they all picked classes that would help them make it big in the comic book industry later on.
The fact that they all had such close bonds did not go unnoticed by other people, students and faculty alike, at the University of Michigan. The university had been attended by all of Lincoln's older sisters except Lori, and the girls who did attend brought their own friends to the university as well.
Upon graduation, Lynn Sr., having become rich from the success of Lynn's Table and its expansion into a regional chain, helped finance the creation of Clincoln McCloud Comics, in which the 12 were equal partners, even though the name solely referenced Lincoln and Clyde. The company would be based in Great Lakes City, where the 12 all decided to live after graduation.
With two of the partners, Lincoln and Ronnie Anne, now a married couple, Lincoln having had to wait until he was 23 to get married like his older sisters did, Clyde and Sid would now follow in their footsteps.
As this wedding was not that of a Loud kid, catering was left up to the parents of Clyde, Howard and Harold, and some dishes from Sid's father Stanley.
Though as with most Loud kid weddings, the Moon Goats were tapped to be the musical entertainment. Because Clyde and Sid were friends of Lincoln, the brother of lead singer Luna, the band did not charge any money for their appearance at this wedding even though they were now international superstars.
The priest who officiated Loud kid weddings except for that of Luan returned to officiate the wedding of Clyde and Sid.
He began to speak. "I understand that the bride and groom have written their own vows. I shall let them speak."
With everyone from previous Loud kid weddings except Mick Swagger in attendance, Clyde began to speak his vows. "Since I first met you 11 years ago looking to solve the haunting of the Great Lakes City Music Hall, I never forgot you even as we lost touch for five years. Upon our reunion at Bobby and Lori's wedding, we felt something more than we did at 12 years of age. My adult life has been complete with you as a part of it. And it will be even more complete with the addition of kids to our lives. So I, Clyde McBride, take you, Sidney Chang, to be my lawfully-wedded wife."
Sid then spoke her vows next. "With our respective best friends forever already a couple, it was natural we would become one too. The five years where we never contacted were really tough on me despite the presence of other great friends. Seeing you again at Bobby and Lori's wedding was the true beginning of my adult life. Our friendship reached new heights after that, and now I am glad to spend the rest of my life with you. Because I, Sidney Chang, take you, Clyde McBride, to be my lawfully-wedded husband."
The priest spoke again, "I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may now kiss the bride."
Clyde and Sid engaged in their first kiss as a married couple upon hearing these words. From this moment forward, Sid would go by Sid McBride.
Even though this wedding didn't involve one of his kids, Lynn Sr. got just as emotional here as he did at the weddings of all his kids up through Lincoln.
At the reception, everyone enjoyed tasty food from Clyde's adoptive parents as well as Sid's father, while people engaged in dances, as the Moon Goats performed classic rock love songs.
This summer was not yet over for the partners of Clincoln McCloud Comics. Another two partners, Liam Hunnicutt and Stella Zhau, were to have their wedding the following month. They had already been cohabiting since graduating college, as were Lincoln and Ronnie Anne, as well as Clyde and Sid. Having spent his entire pre-adult life on a farm, Liam struggled to adjust to a new way of life at first, but with encouragement, Liam decreased his dependency on farm life and eventually became a city slicker.
The first two years of Clincoln McCloud Comics were rather successful for a company that young, putting other established comic companies, including those that published Ace Savvy and David Steele, on notice. While Lincoln grew up on those two, he was ready to create innovative comics on his own.