Creating our fictional alter egos.

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Did you ever try to come up with your fictional alter ego you could like... well, live your life through whom in your head? Was this alter ego of yours autistic or neurotypical? Because as for myself, when I was 13, during the summer of 1997, I made up such an alter ego. Her name was Beryl - she was named after Beryl Bainbridge - and was one year older than myself then. Her physical appearance was based on the one of my classmate who was without any doubt, the prettiest girl in the whole school. She was a filthy rich heiress (my Beryl, I mean, not that girl) whose parents died but who was adopted by a rich millionaire - the one from the book "Kaytek the wizard" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaytek_the_Wizard. He was the man whose wife and son died in an accident and his bodyguards kidnapped Kaytek because the rich man wanted to raise his as his own son. The time of the action of this fantasy set in my head was 1930's because Beryl was born in 1918 and shared her birthdate with me - with this ecception she was born many years before me, she could be my grandma. This fantasy existed in my head up until I was about 21 (give or take a year) - all my girlhood. Beryl was beautiful, had a genius level intellect and there was nothing she didn't know or couldn't do. Such a Mary Sue - though back then I didn't know this term yet. She was one crazy party animal, a super neurotypical girl

I had also some such alter egos later on - one of them was a telepathic teenage boy from a desert planet whose culture resembled the one of Asimov's Solaria - but none of those fantasies were as developed and intricated as this very one. Some time ago, maybe last year, I came back to this fantasy again. Beryl in it - many, many centuries later - is the pure consciousness downloaded into a computer

And what about you?

I usually have characters knocking around in my head from stories I'll never actually write. Not sure if they count as "alter egos", but there have been a few I kind of fixate on. My WP name is from one of the oldest - he's the ghost of a centaur from Mars. (Completely normal, right?) There's a traumatised special forces veteran living on the rooftops of an alternative-history version of my home town. And more recently a middle-aged goblin woman who hunts for magical treasure. They don't resemble me much on a surface level, but I feel a connection to them.

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I sort of do.

Depends on what community I ended up being involved, there's whatever platform's equivalent of a world, my alter ego and the idea of everyone.


But I somewhat stopped that recently.

I finally do and happy that it's over.
Because I never aspired to be a writer or a story teller in the first place.

It's just my brain misbehaving.
Or a very inefficient way of attempting to process thought or emotion.

Because mine wasn't actually special interest or a mere obsession consuming my mental processes; it was a trauma response manifested into a maladaptive daydream and fiction addiction that disrupted my daily living and it spanned for over 2 decades.


Even if the involuntary thoughts and fiction addiction is over, it is still a coping mechanism turned into a habit ingrained in me for many years that I need to break from.

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The older I get the increasingly less 'power fantasy' influenced they are.

I used to have an imaginary friend (more precisely an imaginary sister). She wasn't quite an alter ego but she was basically another me.

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I can be my alter energy online, sometimes Idk who I am online or who I am really am, I am sure I come off more badass than I am online, cause I am really juust a sh***y coward, but I talk a bit game up of fighting facism and being on the right side. But IRL I am not anything like the brave video game characters I play as...I myself am a complete coward so what am I going to do to help anything IRL.

my alter ego at least knows who they are and that they are too old to have kittens. But the only thing is how would I keep the fictional alter ego away from my personal life where in the future I could just have a couple calico cats without the violence. If there was an easy way to do that I would consider being on the cat force.

I create a fictional alter-ego every time I roll up a new TTRPG character.

My alter ego was a London Mod who got away with a lot.

Sure my alter ego is a Swedish woman who is tall and blonde. She is a dermatologist and lives with two boyfriends, who are both computer programmers.