I did an analysis on Carson and on Kurt, I’ve been wanting to do this for awhile, so here it is:
Carson when we first meet him presents himself as a talented and ambitious kid who has been through a lot. Who still goes through a lot, but acts like it’s no big deal. He has a hard time empathizing with other people unless they’re his grandma or Kurt.
But in the very beginning, Carson is more human because he’s still very close to his brother, he’s the only person he can relate to because Kurt has always been there for him while his parents treated him like shit. He loves his grandma too, of course, but she can’t help him anymore due to her not remembering him. Still, he is faithful to visiting her though, because when someone shows love for him, as a kid who grew up barely having that, he will truly care about them.
Carson loves Kurt and Kurt loves Carson. But Kurt didn’t know how to deal with their relationship, growing up he watched the chaos that their parents’ relationship was. He also got to be so spoiled it led to some selfish mentality. So even though he loved Carson, he didn’t understand emotions. He didn’t want to. It scared him. So his solution was to mess things up, act like he didn’t care, without thinking about the effect that this would have on Carson. Which is something he now regrets deeply, but still don’t know how to deal with the consequences.
When Kurt hooked up with Sebastian it obviously fucked up Carson and it was when all started falling apart for both of them, but especially for Carson. Being raised the way he was, and having the only person he trusted betray that trust made something inside of him that was never alright to begin with almost break for good.
Then the whole baby thing happens and it’s when the sad reality of losing his brother, that was never really his to begin with, combined then with the baby he lost, wakes up the beast in Carson, the beast that has always been there but was kept mostly hidden until then. He feels things so intensely it scares him so he detaches himself. He starts doing destructive and messed up things until he literally forgets who he is. He will keep doing it so much that he will lose all the humanity that once existed in him, and it will be hard to get that back.
Kurt sees how Carson loves to tease guys, Carson loves to do that on his face. But what Kurt doesn’t get to see is how Carson actually usually hates having sex with those guys, how he detaches himself from it. He also uses drugs and parties a lot, because it is the only way for him to feel close to anything you could call happiness. As he fell in love it changed him, it turned him into something his younger self would not have recognized. In truth, he may appear confident but he became weaker, because he was not ready for the heartbreak when he already had have so many before.
Carson is someone who desperately needs help. But Kurt is still too worried about his own problems to realize that. He cares more about how this affects him, but now mostly it’s because he just fails to realize his brother’s problems, since now Carson doesn’t look insecure anymore, he now looks confident. The kid who will do everything in his power to be independent and leave his town, and who also, knows just how to press people’s buttons.
