Have you ever had any alter egos or characters?

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Have you ever had a story character or some kind of alternate you? Some kind of imaginary friend? I didn't really have a lot of characters when I was younger. Most of the time when I wrote a story in second grade or so, the main character was me, and I was always the narrator, and the other characters were animals, most likely dogs, or my mom. I never really had a large range of characters. By the time Middle school came, I had a few different characters, mostly from roleplaying wolves on the internet game Furcadia, which I was hooked to. My longest lasting wolf character was Hunger Pangs, a black and white with with green legs and yellow eyes. He had only three legs, the hind left one was missing since birth. He, in his past, used to be very much of a "player" and would kind of take advantage of female wolves and all the others, until he met Tamaa, who he fell in love with. He and Tamaa were very playful, no doubt, but it was probably the fact that she was not afraid of him and his controlling ways that made him attached to her. At least, I think that's how it went. They were mostly very silly together. Hunger Pangs would get drunk on water, as that's all that a wolf can find to get wasted on. Then eventually I got a little tired of wolves and Furcadia and I started a comic. There was going to be two brothers, who were twins. One had very long, shaggy hair and was very nutty and the other was more practical and had somewhat of a bob hairstyle. Ross was the messy one and Dean was the practical one. I think it was partially off some cartoon I had watched. But this was much different, because Ross did not make fun of his brother, he drove him crazy with his nutty ways, mostly. Eventually, I killed off Dean and decided he just wasn't interesting enough. Ross became less nutty, about unusual as me, though. Eventually I got more and more attached to the character and he became my imaginary friend. I made up every detail of how it goes when someone has an imaginary friend and his life. He has a height, weight, blood type, and whatever he is willing to tell me! I still do comics, and it's the best thing ever. I love it. I think the best thing about characters is figuring out every corner of their lives, so if anyone should ask you, say, what their favorite food is or what they did last weekend, you will have an answer. It's making them real that is the fun part.