A thinly disguised extraterrestrial, Alkan is a fervent Anarcho-Dandyist sympathiser. At age 13 he initiated his first (failed) apocalyptic death cult, which managed to attract one other member at the height of its popularity. Struggling to make sense of an alien species, he studied anthropology for several decades at university. Career highlights include chaperoning psychologically deranged cats in a feline correctional institution, washing cheese in a forced-labour, biodynamic kholkhoz, and schlepping infinite washing machines across the dark metropolis. In latter years, embittered by the failure of his career as cult leader; disillusioned in his studies of humanity; exhausted by forever wars against marsupial hegemony, Alkan fell under the influence of the shadowy Croatian Fairy Fruit mafia and took to drenjine smuggling.