heroes or ghosts.

BIO:

born and raised in macon, georgia.

middle child (and middle child syndrome sufferer) with an older brother and younger sister.

grew up in a stable home with hard-working parents who instilled that in him and also inspired his own life goal of not having to work that hard for the rest of his.

respected the hustle, had no romanticisation of the struggle.

there was always something that he wanted that was just out of reach. a new bike as a boy, new car as a teen, not to have to worry about college loans and how he was going to fund the next semester while he was in the current one as a young adult.

loved to rough house with his brother as youths and was the accidental accomplice in a number of declan's frequent flyer visits to the emergency room.

grew up but didn't exactly grow out of that and can be a little bullish at times without meaning to be.

by fourteen he knew the rest of his life wouldn't be spent in georgia.

his teenage years from then until college were more like an exercise in escapism with most of it spent dreaming about being anywhere but home to the point where his parents were concerned about how disengaged he was.

always did well in school, academics always came easy to him and he he rarely had to put in much studying to do well.

when it came time to apply for college, he didn't apply to a single one in state.

with a number of acceptances to choose from, he narrowed it down to two: bachelor of science in management in MIT or bachelor of science in business administration at USC.

it only took minimal deliberation with himself before he accepted a place at USC.

took to college like a duck to water and left a lot of his previous life behind him in georgia, including some of his interests and hobbies.

very much reinvented himself in his freshman year and by his senior year he knew exactly who he was and exactly what he wanted -- a move to silicon valley after graduation, to head his own startup and aylin carrigan.

kodi was besotted from the moment he met her in a way he hadn't experienced before that point. he'd had a number of girlfriends up until that point but they soon felt like little more than stepping stones in the rearview when compared to what was in front of him.

he proposes fast and would have gotten married faster if not for the wedding planning and wanting to honour unifying both of their families, especially after receiving some skepticism from aylin's for the spontaneity.

splitting time between silicon valley and usc was no easy feat once kodi had graduated but they managed it until aylin's graduation when she relocated with him full time.

it was in that 2 years of splitting time that kodi met peter basara from an ad seeking a roommate.

they clicked instantly (matched each other's creative freak)

started working on an app called torch together from a throwaway idea that's still disputed to this day who's it was initially (it was peter's) and after two years, it had grown legs and boomed into quickly profitable venture with a number of buyout offers on the table.

faced with the prospect of a new chapter in his life about to begin, kodi knew that he had to do what was best for him and the future he wanted with his wife and he cut the fat.

unfortunately, that included cutting peter out in order to secure himself as ceo after a large cash infusion that required equity to be sold.

maintains to this day that he did what was needed for the company and it's success, which has since expanded tenfold (sorry dj whizbang)

as much as kodi tried to absolve himself of any and all guilt surrounding that betrayal, it changed something within him. first with his approach to business, leaving him unafraid to be cutthroat in pursuit of what he wanted which inevitably spilled over into his personal life.

the work days grew longer, burning the midnight oil felt perpetual and kodi was all but consumed with share prices and the uptick of money in his bank account.

it felt good to be able to buy his parents house for them, it felt better to be able to get a second home in his wife's hometown as a five year wedding anniversary gift for her.

the problem was he began to be present less and less in both.

if he wasn't working, he was thinking about work.

the things he had said he wanted in his early twenties were no longer a priority as his thirties sped towards him.

ever the businessman, he had successfully argued down the idea of having children to a more agreeable to his schedule adoption of two dogs with the promise that they would revisit that conversation when things on his end simmered down.

they never did.

with his ten year wedding anniversary approaching, kodi couldn't stave off a discontentment that he had been ignoring for a couple of years by then.

he had everything he wanted and set out to get and yet he couldn't pinpoint the source for why he neither woke up happy or went to sleep happy.

that's when the thrill seeking started.

he ordered his drinks a little stronger, he no longer turned down coke when it was offered to him at a party his wife opted to skip and when he met pru piper he let curiosity cross the threshold into infidelity without much thought for anything other than himself.

what started as a new year's eve kiss became a full blown affair.

it lasted for six months before it hit him what he was risking and he ended things with pru and decided to dedicate himself to fixing his marriage by any means necessary.

those efforts were short lived when a throwaway comment on one of pru's podcast episodes stirred up a wave of internet sleuthing that soon pieced things together.

unfortunate timing saw that news break on aylin's 30th birthday which put a fast end to his plan to ask her to renew their vows.

with no way for him to deny what he had done, he came clean about all of it.

in a move he genuinely never thought possible, aylin left.

he remained in their home while she moved back to her hometown and into their holiday home.

after receiving notification that she intended to sell that, kodi took his chance to show up in aurora bay with reason enough that she couldn't instantly slam the door in his face.

PERSONALITY.

+ ambitious, cutthroat, charming.

- hypocritical, inflexible, workaholic.

FUN ADJACENT FACTS.

dog dad to a chocolate lab and an american staffordshire terrier that he now shares custody with with his estranged wife.

rushed tau kappa epsilon (tke) in usc successfully.

big college football fan.

is in a fantasy football league.

was on forbes 30 under 30 list when torch went public.

was on jack sweeney's tracking list for how frequently he opted to fly private (all the time) and now does the occasional business class flight so he looks less hypocritical when he pitches torch's sustainability initiatives.

uncle / godfather to his niece kenzie (lil kj) that he adores who lives in georgia full time. never misses a birthday of hers or a holiday if he knows she'll be there.

CURRENT CONNECTIONS.

@aylinxc-s estranged wife.

@prupipers former mistress.

@peterbasara former business partner / friend.

@gavin-carrigan brother in law.

SPECIFIC WANTED CONNECTIONS.

tba.

GENERIC WANTED CONNECTIONS.

connections wise he’s pretty much an open book right now, but some baseline ideas that can be springboarded off are:

friendly.

a best friend / ride or dies / close friends / childhood friends from georgia / pseudo-siblings / friends / drunk friends / new friends / people he knew from usc / people he met in silicon valley / people he became friendly with during multiple visits to aurora bay over the years.

romantic

flirtationship / friends with benefits / one time hook ups / tinder matches / unrequited crush / exes from high school (georgia specific) / exes from college (must have attended usc).

antagonistic.