Once in a while I imagine myself as the beautiful, slender, fashionable and diamond wearing Princess Tatianna. Coming from some old world type of family, whether they be Russian royalty or something touching on the paranormal like Fey creatures. Although my sisters may be the typical blondes, I am always brunette. (Stay true to your roots, even if it eventually has to come out of a bottle). Princess Tatianna, not always her name, has an extensive glamourous and gorgeous wardrobe. The woman must have a palace just for all the clothes I have imagined her wearing at this point.
Quite often she is going to elaborate functions. Quite often she wears someone like Keanu Reeves on her arm because he has the important things like good looks, strength (an assortment of strengths, possibly a few mystic powers thrown in too) and conversation. Quite often Princess Tatianna is in the midst of some adventure. Not always a dramatic adventure. Once she found a lost crown belonging to the dragons, once she led a revolution for the trolls who were being badly picked on, another time she was running away from the dastardly villain on an amazing horse built like a Clydesdale but able to run like it was lighter than air and yet another time she merely had to make polite social conversation at a party thrown in her honour.
I have a lot of fun being Princess Tatianna. She is great company on a long bus ride or while waiting for laundry at the laundry mat. Do you have your own Princess Tatianna, whatever her name and description? Write a little about her. Don’t be shy or feel too silly. Everyone should have a dazzling secret identity/ alter ego. Only, why be secret when you can brag about it a little?
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This is a great post!
I often have alter egos running through my mind, but they don’t have specific names. The only one that has a specific name is Celestine. I think of her when I want to feel sexy or feel better about myself. But I have a famous writer alter ego, a mother alter ego, and one that takes risky adventures. They all help me live a little more than I normally do. And sometimes I listen to what they want and play along.
Hey Pretty Princess T! At least I know I am not alone in this alter-ego thing (no pun intended!) But I have two: Raine de Saba, and Nina Kupenda. Raine de Saba is a woman who leaves no stone unturned in her quest to tell all: her abusive marriage to a gay man, her two years of adventurous (and sometimes dangerous!) internet dating, and various salacious escapades involving men and food and, well… sex in all its forms, shapes and sizes and flavours! Then there is Nina Kupenda – she is my black alter ego. (I am a white South African who has grown up in the New South Africa – but continues to fight the latent racist (both ways) consciousness in the news etc.) Anyway, Nina is me – but Xhosa. (A Ghanaian friend of mine saw my painting of a Xhosa mother and child before she actually met me – and later revealed she thought the artist was a black woman.) Nina writes about the happier, more beautiful things – and is currently busy with a recipe book about sexy food… lol! But no-one in my personal life knows about Raine de Saba. She exists as my private Pandora’s Box that I open from time to time to let the pain out…
PS. Reine de Saba is a dark, decadent French chocolate torte, and directly translated means ‘The Queen of Sheba’. Ninakupenda is “I love you” in Swahili
Thanks for writing about your alter egos. I knew it couldn’t just be me.
Hey stopping in from CCWA. Hoping I am added soon.
Oooh Keanu, I love him, Speed makes me drool still! LOL!
I do have many versions of an alter ego. Sometimes she is a singer and if there is a cd in, maybe that is me singing. Yes I JUST ADMITTED that, I am such a geek!