Aleksei Votiakov

**Aleksei Votiakov** (Russian: Алексей Вотяков, *Aleksey Votyakov*) is the current Chief Financial Officer in Carter Corp's Russian branch in Moscow, the capital of Russia and one of the members of the Bratva, a Russian mafia group. He was mentioned by both Gabriel Simons and Lisa Parker within Gabriel's route and made his first appearance in the second chapter and as the main antagonist of the first season in Jake's route.

## Appearance

Aleksei has short brown and gray hair, matching brown eyes and a facial beard. He also wears his brown eyeglasses.

He wore four outfits in the game.

His corporate outfit is in the shades of gray; a gray formal suit jacket and a white handkerchief on his left pocket, a white long sleeved button shirt with a long light gray tie at the center with designs, gray formal slacks and dark gray loafers with black laces. While wearing his corporate outfit, Aleksei wears his brown eyeglasses or he removes them to show his attraction to the player.

His second outfit which was seen in Chapter 3 and it was his winter casual attire, a different shaded brown hooded fur coat, with a black turtleneck shirt, black pants and black shoes. He later wears this at the final chapter of the story but without his glasses.

His third outfit is his second casual attire which was seen on the player's phone or her nightmare about him, he wears a black jersey jacket with a gray short sleeved undershirt, black jeans and brown dress shoes.

As he unveils himself being a member of the Bratva where he kidnaps the player instead of assassinating her at the end of Chapter 10, he wears a glamorous magenta formal suit jacket with a black long sleeve button-up shirt with no tie, glamorous magenta formal pants and black shoes.

## Personality

Aleksei is described as being nice and energetic but sometimes he made mistakes such as when he spoke Russian to both the player and Jake which she corrects him saying that she does not speak Russian. As the player's counterpart as the Chief Financial Officer in Carter Corp's Russian branch, he is a very reliable person and is helpful at times to aid the player in dealing with the account issues. In Chapter 3, he displays his villainy when he tried to act seductive to the player but failed and that he was also the one who caused problems about the account issues and Jake had sensed that he was suspicious. It is later revealed that his actions are suspicious where he attacks Ryan with his group in order to gain his trust.

In Chapter 10, he finally displays his antagonistic and sinister side as a member of The Bratva where he reveals his true motives that he was responsible for letting his men shoot Ashton with a sniper rifle which was supposed to be for the player to assassinate her and all this time, he directly targets the player just for her money and accounts and displaying his stronger prowess when he took out Gabriel and later Ashton when he shoots him. In the final chapter of the story, Aleksei displays both sinister and conniving when he reveals his true motives to the player and provokes her to activate the access code in order to get the money they used for his group. He also displaying his berserker side for being bloodthirsty to kill the player for her files and the money as well as capable of fighting Jake during the gunfight but that fails when he was shot by Jake first before he could shoot the player.

In Gabriel's story during Chapter 6 within it's second season, he was mentioned by Gabriel during his business calls as well as Lisa who describes him as one of the hottest guys in top ten which she heavily hints him being an attractive person.

## Season 1

Aleksei was the current head of the textile company here in Moscow, Russia and his textile business was used to conceal all of his illegal activities such as arms dealing and money embezzlement. He was later recruited by Ryan as a CFO in Carter Corp's Russia branch as he uses this job to take espionage the company itself due to his hatred towards the country of the United States.

Aleksei first appears in Chapter 2 where he warmly welcomes both the player and Jake by mistakenly speaking Russian. He also tours the player at Carter Corp's Russian Branch as well as lending his office to make the player fixing the accountable issues.

In Chapter 3, Aleksei returns to see the player following the business meeting and Jake noticed something suspicious about him. He soon helps the player to investigate the fraudulent issues until he caught his assistant who is actually the real culprit. After the investigation is over, all of his requests to meet the player were constantly rejected by the player herself. Aleksei also arrives to see the player and Jake at the hotel they had stayed where he stated that she didn't say goodbye to him.

Following the departure of both the player and Jake on their return to New York, Aleksei viciously fires his assistant for causing the fraudulent issues and berating him that he would never find another job in finance. He unexpectedly travels to New York at the near end of Chapter 4 where he reported the terrible incident to Ryan Carter, the CEO of Carter Corp at his office. He informs both the player and Jake that his assistant had committed suicide following his firing made by him, stating it was his fault. Although, Jake had easily noticed him for being suspicious and the player begins her doubts about this incident.

It was later revealed throughout the chapters that Aleksei is the leader of the Bratva, a Russian mafia group and he frequently targets the player for her money and accounts that she's trying to correct. He also worked in a textile industry which led to his resignation once he gets the money as well as the assistant he had fired was actually a fake and was involved in the money embezzlement. He also manages to let his men attack Ryan Carter as a way to gain his trust and pretending he chases his own men by his own accord and finally tries to assassinate the player at her apartment but instead shoots Ashton in his thorax with his men's sniper rifle. In Chapter 10, the player now learns of what his motives were truly were as she was having a nightmare about Aleksei. At the end of Chapter 10, despite his group being neutralized by the U.S. Government according to Jake, Aleksei infiltrates Gabriel Simons' apartment and holds the trio at gun point, showing his true motives in trying to take the player down. He angrily pushes the player away knowing she has to contact Jake while Gabriel tries to protect the player but was knocked away while Ashton is trying to defend her, Aleksei berates him that he survived from the first shot he had with his men but he had no other choice but to subdued him from getting shot, which horrifies the player. Now his plans are setting in motion, instead of killing the player, he kidnaps her by knocking her unconscious by putting a cloth on her mouth and he succeeded.

In the final chapter of the story when they returned to Russia, he also manages to capture Carrie Kang much to the player's shock and surprise and finally informs them of his true motives and his hatred for the United States. He reveals about his recruitment at Carter Corp was to spy on the company itself. Since Ryan knew of his motives, he always changing his plans and regrouping. He then brought the laptop so that the player would access which she frequently refused to give him the codes. As the first explosion occurs, he was distracted with his group as Jake came to rescue Carrie. Aleksei returns and learning of Jake's survival and uses him to provoke the player long enough to access the codes. But that fails when Carrie confronts him, learning of her ruse. His plans are soon thwarted when Jake and his group infiltrated the warehouse to rescue both the player and Carrie. Both Aleksei and Jake had fought in a bloody gunfight as he manages to shoot Jake first. As soon as he rescues the player, he attempted to shoot them but Jake manages to shoot him through the chest and he collapses onto the piece of metal sheets onto the ground. Being neutralized, Aleksei survives his injuries once the doctors had checked on him and was taken to an ambulance, leading to his hospital arrest for questioning his true motives for his crimes.

## Allies

* The Bratva
* Ryan Carter (formerly)
* Jake Stewart (formerly
* The Main Character (Jake) (formerly)
* Ashton Darrow (formerly)
* Mark Leviels (formerly)

## Enemies

* Jake Stewart
* Ryan Carter
* Ashton Darrow
* Gabriel Simons
* Carrie Kang
* The Main Character (Jake)

## Trivia

* Aleksei's main appearance bears a striking resemblance to the real-life actor, Seth Rogen.
* His other formal suit when he unveils himself as the Russian mafia leader of the Bratva, it is a retooled version of Damian Krug's formal outfit in Secret Palace. As Damian's suit is red while Aleksei's suit being magenta.