THE CHARACTER.
FULL NAME: Alexios Katrakis
GENDER: Cis man
PRONOUNS: He/him
AGE + BIRTHDAY: 43 + March 10, 1982
LENGTH OF TIME IN WINDSOR BAY: 1 year
HOUSING: Mountainside
OCCUPATION: Ranch hand at Sinclair Ranch
THE INTERVIEW.
What’s your family like? Are you still close, or have you blocked all their numbers?
“It’s still just mama and baba here in America with me. I have some cousins, aunts, and uncles back in Greece, but unless I’m visiting the islands, we only get in touch for holidays or birthdays. I left my parents back in upstate New York. I miss them, often. Mama calls a few times each week, tells me about the latest gossip from coffee hour at church, or the food she’s near-constantly making. Baba checks in less frequently, but then, he’s always been the quieter one of the two of them. I love them. I know they love me. And I know they know something went wrong, back when I was young. Especially my father—he’s quite shrewd. But I’ve never confided in them. There’s a gap as wide as the continental U.S. between us, and at this point, I don’t have a will to fill it.”
We’ve all had our fair share of shit hit the fan and moments in the sun — tell me about a defining moment in your life, good or bad.
(TW: war, guns, blood) “The loss of a loved one prompted me to drop out of college and enlist in the army when I was 19. Thinking I could make a difference. Thinking the structure and routine would do me some good. Not caring if I lived or died, quite honestly. I lived, which I’m thankful for now, but I’ll never forget all I witnessed while I was deployed. The memories were a barrage at first, but they’ve drawn together into a singular mass over the years—more slug than buckshot now. It happens when I’m driving, and see a pothole in the road in the shape of a buried device. It freezes me at the sight of blood or the pressure of a crowd at my back. It disallows sleep more often than I’d like to admit (and believe me, sleep was already hard to come by before). I was someone else when I returned, for better or for worse.”
Do you have any regrets? What are they?
“I’ve been in love—madly, dizzyingly in love—exactly twice. By circumstance, I never went through with marrying either of them. At least, not in all the ways I once dreamed. If I could stand before you today as a married man, I would. In a heartbeat.”
THE PERSONALITY.
— + Perceptive, Ambitious, Nurturing— - Stubborn, Perfectionist, Evasive
ALEXIOS IS PORTRAYED BY YIANNIS KOUKOURAKIS, AND WRITTEN BY V.