Carson Kelley

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### **Game(s)**

Murder Mystery 5: Black Looking Glass High, Murder Mystery 7: Murder! on the Moon, Speed Murder Mystery 23: Black Promming Glass High

### **Creator**

John

**Carson Kelley** is a character in Murder Mystery 5: Black Looking Glass High, Murder Mystery 7: Murder! on the Moon, and Speed Murder Mystery 23: Black Promming Glass High.

#### Personality

Essentially, Carson is the sweetest sweet boy you could imagine. Maybe to a fault, because like most teachers that are nice, people often take advantage of him. Also because if you tell him you have any sort of problem at all, he'll literally get you a warm glass of milk and bake you some cookies. He's basically a grandpa (roughly 56 years old) with a grandma instinct. He's also a campaigner, head of the debate team and also a big equal rights protestor. He also is pushing for the school to have their first field trip in forever. He likes everyone, but not everyone likes him. He also loves telling fun stories. Dislikes? Physical activity and forced paperwork.

#### Backstory

Carson is basically the teacher of any "fun" or "elective" class at Black Looking Glass High. Cooking, baking, sewing, creative writing, art classes - you name it, he teaches it! Also the head of the debate team. Carson is a trans guy who transitioned really early in his life and got bullied a lot for that as well as other things that were perceived as "negative". However, he got past all the bullying eventually by learning to be kind and smothering everything in kindness. The world hasn't been too harsh on him since then, but no one at the school knows a lot about his past. He tells a lot of stories, but they're only about his wife and their adopted son and daughter and his grandkids.

In MM7, Carson was initially the elective teacher at Black Looking Glass High, but when his friends Mwangi and Delafontaine decided to go on an expedition to the moon, he was very happy to join them. His occupation while on the moon is "professional friend". After a time warp was opened by ROXIE, Mr. Kelley was thrown back into a time where all his friends stayed alive despite the chaos at Black Looking Glass High. But time travel has its toll, and with him, he suddenly remembers random events that occurred in the timeline of BLGH. And they seem very real to him, so perhaps occasionally he will forget that no, Mr. Delafontaine did not die, or that the students are not here. It's light emotional scarring, but Kelley just gets through it all with a smile on his face and some stress-baking.

Carson Kelley's family (outside of MM7, where he was moved to a different timeline) consists of his wife Katy and his two adopted children, Chase and Lillian. His grandchildren's names are currently unknown.

### Murder Mystery 5: Black Looking Glass High

Carson began his time in Black Looking Glass High with a 3.5 social rating and an urge to climb higher. He was kind to all the students, almost laughably so, and climbed up to a 5.0 on the social rating scale while avoiding any negative ratings. He baked many cookies and some biryani for various students and staff. Partway through his stay, the students of BLGH (namely Oliver Wright, Tessa Donovan, and Victoria Lee) initiated an event that caused them to become staff, and Carson willingly gave up his room. Carson had a love-hate relationship with the school AI, which was initially called GLaDOS and later revealed to be ROXIE, the sentient AI used in Victoria's murder scheme. This culminated in him saying "Fuck you" to the AI, and ended with the (later decanonized) murder of everyone by ROXIE.

### Murder Mystery 7: Murder! on the Moon

In Murder Mystery 7: Murder! on the Moon, it was revealed that Carson had not in fact died, but was transported to an alternate timeline via ROXIE. In this timeline, Carson and his friends Jabari Mwangi and Shamus Delafontaine (colloquially referred to as "Staff Gang") went to the moon together. Carson was still his old cheerful baking self, but was disturbed by visions of the original BLGH timeline. He later gained complete clarity and realized that his visions were reality - but rather than get caught up in them, he decided to move forward and pursue a new romantic relationship with Shamus. This reached its climax when Shamus was untimely murdered by Sage Griffin, which led Carson to discover a ring and proposal note meant for him. Carson was devastated, as he had now lost Shamus in not one but two different timelines. After a grieving period, Carson teamed up with Bassam Badcockzai, and the unlikely pair were able to correctly identify the killer and help bring him to justice.

#### Trivia

* Carson Kelley was initially a Dungeons & Dragons concept, according to John. He was set to be a cleric.
* Carson is John's first Murder Mystery character, as well as his first character to be reprised.
* Carson is the only member of the "Staff Gang" whose player is still currently active.
* In both games he participated in, Carson received two murderer guesses. Interestingly, none of these guesses were from the same player.
* Carson Kelley is the first transgender character in a murder mystery.
* Carson is one of the few characters whose appearance in multiple timelines was not de-canonized. As such, he currently exists in the MM7 timeline, away from his family.