Alter ego
Alter ego: (from latin, 'other self') Another self. A different
personality or
persona (esp. if similar or opposite). Can also be used about people who are identical psychologically, common in literature analysis and comparison.
Mr. Hyde was Dr. Jekyll's evil alter ego (same person, different personalities). Asterix is Mickey Mouse's alter ego (different people, same personality).
Also the name of a personality game for the
Commodore 64 created by
Peter J. Favaro, Ph.D. (released by
Activision in
1986), which allowed you to make decisions for an imaginary person (being therefore your alter ego) and showed you what possible consequences that decisions could have on that person. The game based on actual psychological knowledge and experience, and the authors have done their best to create a game which contains scientifical material but playable and enjoyable at the same time. It was a novel concept, to some degree similar to
The Sims (but while
Alter Ego let the player experience his own personality, or the consequences of changing it,
The Sims lets the player to observe and explore others - hidden - peronality and their interaction in situations).