Benny Smith

**Benny Smith** is an **Escape the Night** OC created by **Dede42.**

Benny Smith was born to parents who ran Neptune Networks, a gaming company that’d been successful since the 1950s, and he had five older brothers and five younger sisters, making him the middle child. Being the middle child, his parents didn’t really give him that much attention, but he was determined from a young age to prove to himself that he could be a good kid, and he did his level best not to get into trouble at school.

Despite his parents never really being there for him, Benny managed to graduate from high school with honors and a scholarship to University of California in Los Angles, California, and he was able to get into the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. He spent the first year staying with an aunt and uncle until he was able to afford a low-rent apartment not far from the campus.

Benny worked two part-time jobs to pay his way instead of using his trust fund, which he only used when he absolutely had to, and that was to get certain types of cameras needed for the homework projects that he had for his filming and editing classes. When he learned about the growing popularity of posting videos on YouTube in the year 2012, he decided to try it out with a few videos that he’d done with his siblings the last time he gone home for the holidays.

The last thing Benny expected was for his channel to become a hit after just about a month, and so he had a chance to post what he wanted on his channel that his professors, for whatever reason, thought was snobby work with the stop-motion movies, and he was able to express his creativity on a whole new level. He was able to collab with other YouTubers, becoming friends with the likes of Joey Graceffa, Justine, Shane, and other YouTubers. And he also became friends with various actors and actresses, too.

In June of 2016, Benny received an invitation from Joey Graceffa and Dawn Hatcher, inviting him to a dinner party at a house that was apparently locked in the 1920s, and he was given the persona of TheMusician. He was immediately interested, did research on the character, and got himself the proper clothing.

Benny was amazed by how the house seemed to appear like magic on the night of the dinner party, and he was having a wonderful time, even though he was making a point of keeping Bart away from Dawn as much as possible, until all hell broke loose when Shane began coughing up blood. He and Bart were looking after Shane the best they could while the others worked on finding the keys that would help them get access to the antidote needed to save their friend.

Benny thought that GloZell and Bart were jumping to conclusions about blaming Joey and Dawn for what was happening to Shane, for he found it highly unlikely that either of them would invite their friends to a dinner party and then try to kill them, and he finally told Bart to shut up when it looked like the brunette was going to blow a fuse, having seen first-hand what she was like when she was pissed.

Benny was devastated when Shane died, and he was shocked to learn that Shane had been the member of a secret society known as the Society Against Evil from a letter that Joey had found inside their late friend’s jacket, and that there was an Evil in the house that had been responsible for his friend’s death. He and the others did try to leave, but the time traveling car was destroyed and they had no choice but to finish Shane’s mission and find four artifacts, even though it meant that some of them were probably going to die in the process.

Benny had no intention of dying, and he made a point to be helpful as they searched for clues that did lead them to a cog key that they would need to gain access to where the first artifact was hidden. When they learned that they would have to vote for two people, who would need partners, to go up against an ungodly machine that was in the basement of the house, he allied himself with Joey, Justine, Dawn, Sierra, and Eva, choosing to vote Andrea.

When the vote revealed that Andrea and Lele were to go into the basement, Benny was concerned when Andrea chose Justine, who had a freak out session at being chosen, as her partner while Lele chose Eva, and he hoped that all four of them would be able to come back without any of them dying. He was sad to learn that Andrea had died and while some, like Tim, were eager to blame Justine, he agreed with Dawn when she pointed out that with the time limit, had both Eva and Justine had failed the challenge, then a monster would’ve been created at the cost of both Lele and Andrea’s lives, and that monster would’ve killed all of them. Also, it was pointed out by the brunette that if they kept blaming each other, then that meant that the Evil would win. The blame game did end up until Oli found a note that said that they had been warned and that one of them was in league with the Evil of the house.

Once again blame was being thrown around and Benny was getting sick of the whole blame game nonsense, primarily because Bart kept going after Dawn. He was relieved when Joey insisted that they should focus on finding the next artifact, the blame game stopped since they had only that one night to find the artifacts and do the ritual before sunrise. After using the clue to locate three items: a red scarf, a pair of emerald earrings, and a lock of blonde hair, the group did a séance and learned from the ghost of Caroline Eastwick, when she possessed Sarah the creepy maid, that she had been buried alive in a coffin that they would need to find, along with a key, in order to free her and get the second artifact.

Benny went with Joey, Dawn, Tim, Oli, Eva, and GloZell, he found it suspicious when the butler Arthur came with them, to search for the coffin, and he just shook his head when Tim voiced that he didn’t trust anyone in the other group, knowing that Tim meant that he didn’t trust Justine. He knew that the stress and the time limit on the challenge had made it hard for the blonde, but convincing Tim of that wasn’t going to be easy.

Once they found the coffin, Benny was helping dig up the coffin when the other group arrived with the key, and some of them assisted in getting the coffin out of the hole once Sierra used the key to remove the chain. When the coffin was open, they discovered that it was empty – save a for note that revealed that in order to find the next artifact, someone would have to be buried alive in the coffin. Benny sided with Matt, Justine, Joey, and Dawn, choosing to vote for Tim since he was being the most vocal about Justine, who was just honestly scared of being inside a coffin.

When the vote revealed that Justine was to go into the coffin, Benny did try to keep the blonde from being buried alive, but he, Matt, Joey, and Dawn were clearly outnumbered, and he could only watch helpless as Justine was buried alive. The burying of the coffin only stopped when the location of the second artifact was revealed.

After getting the second artifact and a wooden box, Benny was taken aback when GloZell and Bart started blaming Joey and Dawn untilthe brunette screamed at GloZell when she lost her temper. After finding a hidden dining room with creepy mannequins and a clue that revealed for the next final death challenge three would need to be voted for in order to play perverse games, he wasn’t looking forward to voting for anyone.

Benny was surprised when Joey and Dawn were voted into the perverse games challenge with Lele, and he strongly suspected that Bart had voted for Dawn, and was right when both Bart and GloZell gleefully explained why they had voted for Joey and Dawn. He was having to listen to why Matt had voted for Lele when GloZell and Bart both suddenly began coughing, choking, and fell the floor, coughing up blood.

Benny and the others were still trying to figure out what had happen when Joey, Dawn, and Lele returned with the third artifact, and when Matt began accusing Lele, she revealed that while Joey and Dawn had written GloZell and Bart’s names into the murder journal, she’d had wanted to write Matt and Tim’s names down instead, and she shoved Matt onto the nearest couch with the order that he sit down and shut up.

When it came to having to outwit the Guardian in order to find the final artifact, Benny was worried when Tim got grabbed, Matt also got grabbed, and he was relieved when they were able to defeat the Guardian, getting them both back. When it came time to vote for the next final death challenge, he was surprised when Tim and Oli were voted into the challenge.

Benny was surprised and relieved when Tim and Oli got to live, plus they were able get the fourth and final artifact. He listened as Tim and Matt revealed what they had gone through when they had been captured by the Guardian, and he agreed with his friends about the confusing hints about there being some kind of Light inside Dawn that the brunette herself didn’t even know about.

After eating sandwiches provided by Arthur and Sarah, Benny fell asleep on the floor and had a *very*disturbing dream about being strapped to a wooden chair with wires attached to his head, and he was begging with the shadowy figure to not push the button, for if that button was pushed, he was sure that he would be electrocuted. He only vaguely remembered the dream when she and the others were woken up by Arthur so that they could do the ritual and *finally*go home.

Benny was looking forward to going back to 2016, and she was disappointed when the ritual failed, and he wasn’t thrilled to learn that they would need to find and release the five owners of the house in order to weaken the Evil and finally seal it away when they found a priest trapped down in the basement.

Benny helped Joey, Oli, Eva, and Dawn find the rosary, and when it came time to vote, he was annoyed when Matt, after volunteering to do the exorcism, tried to back out, and so he did vote for him since even she remembered the no-take-backs rule from school. He was surprised when Sierra was vote into the challenge, along with Matt, and he hoped that Sierra would come back. He waited with the others to see who would come back from performing the exorcism, and he was shocked when only Matt came back with the cross. He learned that he hadn’t read the final step the whole way, and this had lead to Sierra’s death.

After giving the priest the cross so that he could have his faith back and his freedom, Benny was becoming increasingly annoyed when Matt, who’d clearly had lost all hope of them ever getting out of the house alive, kept talking about how they were all going to die and that there was no point in find the other owners.

When they were at the pool, where Joey, Dawn, Lele, and himself swam around to get the three bodies, Benny fought back a smirk when the brunette asked Tim to shove Matt into the pool with the hope that the cold water would snap him out of his funk. He did chuckle when Tim did shove Matt into the pool, but he was still in jerk mode when they went back inside the house to vote for two people to find the doll that’d once belonged to the daughter of the second owner, who’d been transformed into a mermaid.

Benny wasn’t too surprised when Matt was voted for by their friends, and he was surprised to have Tim go into the challenge, too, when his name was also drawn. He was thrilled when Tim came back with the doll, and they all went to give the doll to the second owner, giving her her freedom.

When it came to the third owner, Colin, Benny was annoyed when Eva and Lele flirted him him, and since he didn’t have a gun, he kept tabs on Joey, Dawn, and Oli when they were trapped in a lab with a zombie that was chained to the wall. He and Lele managed to distract it so that Joey could inject the antidote into it, and when they came out with a chest that had a block of dry ice in it, he stepped out of the way as Lele took the shovel to the ice to reveal where the gold was hidden.

When it came time to vote, Benny did vote for Eva since he had no intention of voting for Dawn as he was developing feelings for her, and he was sad when Eva came back without Tim, who had also been voted into the challenge. When it came to Vincent, the fourth owner, he and the others had to deal with some vivid hallucinations ranging from creating a swamp man to take out *another*zombie to get the first key, finding the right masks to get the second key, and then it came to one more vote in order to get the final key. When he learned that three would have to be voted for, and that those voted for would need partners to face the final death challenge, he agreed with Lele when she stated that she was going to vote for herself.

Benny wasn’t too surprised when he was voted to go into the basement, along with Lele and Oli, and since he had to choose a partner who was the opposite sex, he chose Dawn, Oli had Eva, and Lele had Joey. He wasn’t thrilled to see that he, Lele, and Oli were to be strapped to electric chairs that were hooked up to an old-fashion electroshock therapy machine, and it was up to Eva, Dawn, and Joey to get three rings on the metal poles to complete the circuit with a time limit of thirty minutes.

Every time Dawn failed to get a ring on one of the poles, Benny would get an electric shock that grew stronger each time, and he did his best to encourage her, even when there was just ten minutes left on the timer. He realized that he and Lele would die when Eva managed to complete the circuit with the three rings, and both he and Lele were electrocuted, everything first being painful and finally going black.

Benny was confused to find himself and Lele standing next to their own dead bodies, and he realized they were dead when he saw Eva help Oli, who was looking shellshocked, out of the chair while Joey and Dawn retrieved the final key from a jar that had a brain in it. He and Lele waited until they were gone before they exited the basement and was greeted by Shane, who explained to them that they were in the World Between worlds, and that there was a safe place that the others were already waiting inside.

Benny was now trapped in the World Between Worlds with other friends who had died, waiting for when she would be able to return to the land of the living…hopefully.