This week’s Prompt For The Promptless is about alter ego:

The Alter Ego, in Latin, literally means “Second I” or “Second Self”.  It can refer to an opposite side to the personality within someone, or a counterpart like a trusted friend.

I’ve decided to combine this prompt with today’s Daily Post prompt,”Interview your favorite fictional character.”  I’m going to interview my alter ego. Please, give a warm welcome to the anti-Goldfish.

	Hello, Alter Ego. My, you’re very dark.
	I’m an inverted version of you, so, yeah.
	Your eyes are something else. Kind of on the creepy side. You don’t look quite how I expected you to look.
	How did you expect me to look?
	Not quite so creepy, stalker, serial killer really.
	Whatever. Anything else?
	So, what do you do, Anti? What are your hobbies?
	I destroy things and torture animals in my free time.
	What? That’s terrible!
	Whatever you do, I do the opposite, remember? That’s how this works.
	Geez, don’t we have anything in common?
	No, not really. We’re sort of shaped the same I suppose.
	Well, that’s something. Don’t you love our fins? Don’t you just love swishing them?
	No. I hate that. You like that.
	Well, what do you like?
	I like going to the dentist, sitting in traffic, waiting in line, rude people, that Musak they play when you’re on hold for hours. Lots of stuff.
	Eww. How could you like any of that? Those things are awful.
	Simple. You hate them, so I love them.
	You like… Cormac McCarthy?
	Love him. The Road is the best book ever written.
	Noooooooo!
	I like what you hate. I hate what you like. We are complete opposites.
	Well, even exact opposites should be able to find some common ground. Hey, are you hungry?
	Starving.
	Let’s go order a pizza with half black olives and Italian sausage, and half green peppers and onions.
	Deal.

Now that I’ve hung out with my alter ego, there’s no way I’d call her my “favorite” fictional character.