Lou (character)

Lou is the titular protagonist from the short film of the same name. He is a mysterious figure who takes the lost belongings from many children for them to collect, but he does not tolerate any children stealing their respective belongings.

Background
Lou is a mysterious figure who collects lost belongings and puts them in the "Lost and Found" box at the elementary school for children to collect their lost belongings. He does help give children their lost belongings, but he dislikes when he sees children behaving rudely (in this case, a bully named J.J. taking things that do not belong to him and being rude to other students).

Role in the short film
Throughout the short, Lou is a mysterious creature hiding in a "Lost and Found" box. Lou presses the handheld game console he found, indicating that he found the children's lost belongings for the preschoolers to collect. Later, when he discovers a bully taking the belongings that do not belong to him as well as being rude to the other students, he is unhappy that the bully is not treating the other students kindly as Lou decides to teach the bully a lesson while the bully grabs his backpack.

After the bully J.J. grabs his backpack, he notices Lou holding a plush dog (the toy's tag has his name), this reveals a flashback of J.J. when he was little got his plush dog stolen by another bully. When J.J. tries to ask Lou for his plush dog, Lou refuses because the bully has to give the lost belongings back to their respective students as well as treating them kindly. Soon as J.J. does so, Lou feels happy that J.J. is becoming a good boy by giving the belongings back to their respective owners and upon doing the task what Lou told him, J.J. notices the box of lost belongings is empty, so he grabs the plush that once belonged to him, thanks to Lou's help.