Alex Koel

Alex in 2027 as Ollie Wiater

**Alex Koel** was a participant in the Fourth Nonary Game. For much of the game he was pretending to be a previous participant, Ollie Wiater.

## Appearance

Alex stands at 5’8 feet fall, has black hair, blue eyes and isn’t exactly the type of person that stands out. He’s got an average looking face and wears baggy shirts on top of a pair of jeans and simple shoes. When he takes up a persona however, he makes a conscious effort in his looks, going as far as dyeing his hair, wearing eye contacts and even changing his diet to match the looks and body type of the person he’s mimicking. He has a couple moles on his face that he covers up with make-up. As Ollie though, despite copying his exact looks, he decided to wear a face-mask on top of it, just to seem extra mysterious and interesting to other people. He tells everyone he got into a messed up accident and wears this mask more-so for other people than himself. He says he doesn’t want to freak others out, but in reality his face is fine, and it helps a little with his anxiety.

## Personality

Alex is a socially inept, empty individual. He suffers from depression, anxiety and has no sense of self, which resulted in severe identity issues that he copes with by pretending to be other people. He’s infatuated with the people he pretends to be to a point he’s nothing short from being an obsessive stalker who picks at every little thing he manages to find about his victims, going as far as hacking into their personal accounts to read their private messages and have access to their private photos and voicemails. Alex is also a compulsive liar. He will lie about anything to make himself seem like a more interesting person. He’ll lie about things he’s experienced, things he’s skilled at, his physical condition and pretty much anything else he can think of lying about. He gets irritated when people don’t believe him, but with his Oliwier persona, it’s easy to play off the lies people don’t believe as ‘just jokes.’ Confrontation makes him either angry, or extremely anxious. He hates being caught in his act, and will do anything to avoid something like that from happening. Once he has no way of avoiding the confrontation, he drops the act and moves onto the next person he can pose as and the next group he can trick. Getting confronted about his real self terrifies him. What lies beneath his act, like his feelings and desires, make him sick to his stomach. He does everything to suppress them, does everything to drown out the voice of his conscience. He is aware his way of coping is disgusting and that he’s a freak, but that is something he doesn’t want to think about. In his eyes, if he keeps ignoring it, it isn’t true.

Similarly to the real Oliwier, what’s important to Alex is what others think of him, resulting in extreme attention seeking behavior. He is obsessed with being someone he’s not, since he believes that being literally anybody else and adapting a compulsively lying personality will make him a more interesting person, and therefore make up for what he lacks.

## Backstory

Alex always faded in the background. Nothing about him ever stood out, even as a kid. Sometimes people feel like they’re a background character in their own lives, but he really was a background character. At least, that’s what he had ingrained into his own brain back in elementary school.

During middle school he would sometimes take advantage of how he often felt like he was non existent to the rest of the world. He’d skip classes and family gatherings to hole up in his own room and do the one thing he enjoyed doing: log into the social media of his online persona while blasting one of his favorite metal bands. Online was where Alex could truly be himself, or well... Not himself. He would stalk other people’s social media, and base his online persona completely on them down to their typing style and pictures. Whenever he got caught, he’d move onto the next person, and that continued to go on for years.

In high school, Alex started to go outside more. He would take a notebook with him and write about the interesting people he’d see at public places for ‘inspiration.’ Sometimes, he’d let his fantasy run wild and make up stories about people he saw based on their looks and play them out inside his head. He has an interest in human psychology and behavior, but rather than being normal about it, he instead began seeing other people as characters to analyze rather than actual human beings.

Near the end of high school, Alex decided to take it a step further. He’d turn his online persona into his real persona, and start looking and acting like the people he pretends to be. It was only during college that he’d start doing this outside of just the mall, public hangouts, and his own bedroom. It was the first time he didn’t just feel like a background character. For once, he was the protagonist. He was the one people would walk up to, people would want to hang out with. He finally gained what he lacked this whole time: a real identity.

## Trivia

* Alex is the only character to have been actively murdered during a Nonary Game.