2, 5, and 7 for the first OC who comes to mind!
#2: Were they created for the story, or was the story created for them?
Answering for Damalis- he was created for the story. The story had a spot for his character type, and from that space, he formed along the way.
#5: Did they have a pet as a child?
Answering for Malik since he's one of the few that did- yes! He had a desert cat roughly the size of a lynx from our world. This ended approximately as well as you would expect a small child owning a wild big cat would, and he still has many deep scars.
#7: What attribute of them (some facet of their personality, their history, their look, or whatever etc) would you find most important to somehow preserve if they were transplanted to an AU fanfic?
Answering for Khelios- the (often detrimental) belief that he's right by virtue of being who he is, and that it means he knows what is best. If this man is not on a cow he thinks is a high horse he is not the same character anymore.
