Caroline Craig

Caroline Craig is an adjunct who once worked at Brandeis and Falstone College of Art and Design.

## Appearance

A redhead who likes to wear her hair in a ponytail. A few years older than Georgia.

## Personality

She hates to dress up even more than Georgia. Georgia says she's a real sweetie.

## Sequential History

### The Skeleton Haunts A House

Caroline is an adjunct originally from Virginia who shares a love of pop culture with Georgia, specifically comics. When Georgia calls her for information on Kendall, her cover story was asking if she had any recommendations for graphic novels Georgia could use for a class she's proposing. Afterwards, Georgia brings up Kendall's death. Caroline said that she had Kendall for writing seminar last year and she didn't think much of Kendall. She says she didn't give two hoots about Caroline's class and was just barely scraping by with papers that were so bland, Caroline nearly dozed off reading them. Caroline says Kendall was only in her section because she had an eye on a boy in the section and the boy didn't initially reciprocate, although she eventually wore him down. Caroline thinks the boy steadied Kendall down, as she started putting some real effort into her classwork for a change; she wasn't a gifted writer, but she improved enough to bring herself up to a B-. Caroline says that Kendall wasn't in her classes that semester, but she came by a few times to say hello and apologize for being such a pain in the tail (although Caroline says Kendall hadn't really wronged her, she was hurting herself by not doing the work), which Caroline thought was sweet. Caroline hates that Kendall died so young, after she'd really started turning things around. Caroline wonders if Kendall was a twelve-stepper / recovering alcoholic, as her being in recovery, would explain why her grades were starting to improve. Georgia does pass on the list of graphic novel recommendations to Sid; Caroline scored some free copies at a conference and is going to send them to Georgia.

### The Skeleton Paints A Picture

Caroline helps Georgia get her job at FAD, even though she'd only been hired a few weeks before Georgia; they're introduced to the rest of the department together by Mr. Perkins. She is staring moodily at her Wonder Woman coffee cup when Georgia arrives at the Roundling. Georgia sits next to Caroline while Owen gets Georgia coffee. Caroline tells Georgia that Owen had gone through many other FAD departments, looking for a partner, and is just now concentrating on English department. Caroline is happily married. Caroline and Georgia have repeatedly attempted to figure out how Prof. Waldron managed to arrive on time but always the last: was she hiding in some corner where she could see where people come in, or did Mr. Perkins have a time to let her know when the time was right? When Prof. Waldron reports Kelly Griffith's death, Caroline is wide awake and upset. Caroline and Georgia agree that Prof. Waldron's announcement of the available tenure position isn't an accident, but a ploy to see how much extra work the teachers are willing to take on to prove their worthiness for tenure, and she was very transparent about it. Georgia later describes Caroline to Sid, who apparently is still getting hot new graphic novels for Georgia and Sid. Caroline is Georgia's best friend at FAD. Whenever Caroline's husband is away on business, Caroline and Georgia share geeky movie nights. Caroline is delighted to work at FAD because she can teach a graphic novels course, something she'd been dreaming of for years. Georgia thinks she's got her name on more paper than Caroline, but Caroline's been an adjunct longer. A few weeks ago, Caroline and Georgia go out with Renee for drinks. Caroline has a slight Southern accent, but her years away from Virginia had softened it. Caroline is the only one Georgia told about the tiff with Kelly over the grade, and she hates to think about Caroline being the one to throw her under the bus. Georgia is relieved by the idea that Caroline told someone without meaning any harm by it, because she likes Caroline. Georgia recalls that Caroline is one of the people she called about Kendall's murder, so Caroline knows that Georgia got tangled up in that case. Caroline saves Georgia from Owen's advances by saying she and Georgia have a meeting; she sweeps Georgia back to her office for the "meeting". Caroline reveals that she switched shifts with Owen, unaware he was planning to lie in wait for Georgia. Caroline suggests Georgia tell Owen she's dating Brownie to deter him, even though Georgia isn't exclusive with Brownie and they're barely in contact anymore; she acknowledges that having to tell a dude that she's already taken to get him to back off is sexist, but it's effective. They discuss Dahna and Renee sniping at each other - perhaps over Jeremy - and how the English adjuncts arguing amongst themselves isn't a good way to get tenure from Prof. Waldron. Georgia and Caroline say they hope the tenure thing won't affect their friendship and that they don't want it to. Georgia is unnerved about being in such direct competition with a friend. They talk about services for Kelly, and Caroline says she doesn't think Kelly had many friends. Caroline asks Georgia if it was really awful finding Kelly's body then talks about Georgia's past investigations, which she heard about through the adjunct gossip chain. Georgia asks Caroline if she spread around her argument with Kelly, and Caroline says she might have and wouldn't worry about the police thinking it's a big deal. She thinks Officer Buchanan was just trying to milk the investigation to get out of traffic duty or clock some overtime, when she came to FAD to investigate. Kelly offers Georgia the advice to be careful at FAD, that tenure and messing around with the police don't really go together. Caroline doesn't say who she told about the tiff with Kelly. When Georgia tells him about her day, Sid thinks Caroline was acting suspicious by interrogating Georgia about Kelly's body. Sid and Georgia wonder if Sid only told Officer Buchanan about the tiff with Kelly, and did it as an attempt at misdirection. They can't come up with a motive though. Caroline is at the Writing Lab, talking to Indigo, when Georgia arrives. Caroline says there's good news, as it turns out Indigo was Kelly's student assistant, and emphasizes that Indigo's pronouns are they/them by telling Georgia that they're in one of Caroline's graphic novel class. Caroline comments that Georgia better get used to winters, if she's going to stay up north long-term, in response to Georgia's comment that her own office is chilly; Caroline thinks she hears nastiness in her voice, as she's been hearing in every conversation, between Kelly's death and the tenure issue. Caroline attends Kelly's memorial service and Georgia sits with her. When Georgia is introducing Buchanan to the people in the room, she sees Caroline with the other English department adjuncts, likely telling them how the police had already spoken to Georgia. Caroline's graphic novel class is said to be twice as popular as any of Prof. Waldron's. Caroline loves her comics, but as far as Georgia can tell, she's never tried to draw her own. Caroline tells Georgia that the adjuncts didn't meet up on Fridays because Prof. Waldron wants the adjuncts to be available to students all day... or she wanted to be able to sneak off for wild weekends in New York or Vegas, perhaps with Mr. Perkins as arm candy. Caroline later points out that 'you' isn't both plural and singular when people are in her part of the country; she says 'y'all' to emphasize her point. Caroline later seems unswayed by Georgia's idea that somebody plagiarized a paper about intellectual property theft. Caroline brings up Georgia's mystery habit in the presence of the other adjuncts, causing trouble for Georgia. Caroline snarkily asks if Georgia can't find a better way to spend her time than mysteries. Later, when Prof. Waldron learns that Georgia's been investigating potential art theft at the college and concludes that the other English adjuncts are more concerned with FAD's appearance of integrity rather than their actual integrity, Caroline looks abashed. Caroline is later seen gossiping Renee about Georgia getting her parents involved, which is how Georgia learned that people think Georgia got her father involved to increase her chances of tenure. Later, Caroline gives Georgia what she meant to be a conspiratorial or congratulatory grin, but came out sadly strained, when she congratulates Georgia on dealing with Owen. Georgia says she hopes getting tenure at FAD is that important to Caroline, she hopes it's worth it. Caroline doesn't follow her. When Georgia allowed Lucas to give her a kiss on the cheek, Georgia thinks that if she'd been able to discuss things with Caroline, she was fairly sure they'd have decided it was a "maybe" kiss, the kind that could lead to more serious kissing at a later date. Because of the way Caroline had been acting, that wasn't possible. Caroline later comes by Georgia's office, saying they need to talk, saying that she initially believed the rumor about Georgia's father trying to get her tenure for her, but she says Harry Potter showed her the way. She watched *Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire*, which she and Georgia had watched a week ago when they were still friends, and Caroline talks about the scene where they decided Ron was being an idiot for not believing Harry when he said he didn't put his name in the Goblet, because he had no reason to disbelieve Harry. They threw popcorn at Ron until he apologized because he was being such a dink, and Caroline has a bag of popcorn for Georgia to throw at Caroline for being a big old dink. She knows Georgia; Georgia would network through her parents, but wouldn't use them to crowd other people out, and Prof. Waldron would never respond well to something like that. Caroline says that Owen told her the rumor, and she doesn't know where he got it from, so she'll go handle Owen about it. Caroline fully apologizes for letting the tenure thing go to her head, and Georgia forgives her. They go for the awkward friend hug; she didn't stay much longer, but when she left, Georgia felt they were back to normal. Now that they're on speaking terms again, Caroline and Georgia have a late lunch, gossiping about those snubbing Georgia and Caroline for being with Georgia. Caroline is revealed to have taught at two of the schools Sid found to have confirmed art theft. Caroline later pops in to see Georgia, after her coffee encounter with Owen and invites her to lunch with her and Renee; she buys Georgia's food for her. Caroline is appalled at Renee for asking if Georgia wants coffee, since it could be drugged, and she has Georgia eat before she talks about the story. Caroline said they'd heard everything expect Owen pouring booze over Georgia while she was pretending to be passed out. Caroline says she thinks Owen is a slimeball, and tells Georgia he's been suspended without pay until the formal outcome of the investigation. Caroline is embarrassed about the fact that she's going to take over one of Owen's classes. Caroline said they'd have checked with Georgia first, but they thought it might be a little awkward for Georgia to teach one of Owen's classes. Caroline told Georgia not to listen to Renee's snide comment about tenure, and assured her that if she gets tenure, it'll be because she's an extremely qualified candidate, not because she caught a thief. Caroline later quips that if he does have the money from selling art, he doesn't spend it on his clothes; she asks Georgia if he dressed like a bad Western hero when they dated. Caroline is relieved when Renee said they found a student's sketchbook in his office, saying she'd hate to think of there being more than one scumbucket on campus. Caroline sends Georgia an email and Georgia quickly responds to stop her from coming over with a pizza and beer. Prof. Waldron later tells Georgia that Caroline gets the tenure position, and Georgia approves; she thinks Caroline is a much better fit, based on her work with graphic novels. Georgia said she'd be happy at a place like FAD if she had a specialty like Caroline had in sequential art.