(Turns out, you can use an exploit where you can purchase training gear in early adulthood, and the more you do it, the more you boost your physical stats) She was loved by many, from parents, to friends, and she always stood for what was right and helped those people who were at the forefront of being ridiculed or abused.
I tried to model her personality according to the all-American pride of Buzz Aldrin, and she got stats dominating in the intelligence, gentleness, confidence, socialness departments, but critically she was always flunking physically, despite the fact that there were never any clear opportunities to try to do sports events or try to re-affirm myself physically. Instead Cherie's life was one of turbulent agression and distance in her toddler years, and communal pragmatism in her teenage years, manifesting in a wide-eyed curiosity, gentleness and also firmness. My goal was to see if I could make Cherie an astronaut, and if I could get there potentially by either entering an atheltic or a sports career, but opportunities to do so have never presented themselves here, and you can't become an astronaut in this game, I'm sorry to say.
I played the female version and I named my person "Cherie". Career options mostly fall to business, management, medical, labour and art sectors, with no room for military and sports careers, or even becoming an astronaut!
Outside of the frequent criticisms that you can't play as a racial minority, as a gay or trans person, or a non-American, the choices you have and can divulge within the game, they are also limited. It has a popular browser version which you have no doubt tried at one point, but playing it today also reveals an awful lot of shortcomings as a result of both its limited and predictable game mechanics, but also its narrow scope at the American white middle-classman as its ideal denizen. You essentially play a life of a person as they choose how to be affected and react to various common life experiences, from chidlhood bonding with parents, to the first day at kindergarten or school, to adulthood and old age until death. Alter Ego is a very interesting interactive fiction, and must have been revalatory at the time in the 80s.
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