Thank you very much for your efforts. After reading the revisions, we feel that this character is still not developed enough for the game. The additions to the backstory and personality weren't bad, but ultimately didn't add more depth to the character that we felt had been missing. In other words, it was enlightening but not necessarily enriching.

However, the bigger problem is that the AU still reads a lot more like turning a canon character with no information into an OC, but if we were putting him on the same level as a fandom OC, then he wouldn't be applicable as of the rule that states fandom OCs can't be closely related to the canon cast. The fact that the island trio killed his friends, even in an AU, would give him a close personal tie to them in the form of enmity, and that could potentially inconvenience the players of those characters.

Because of the lack of canon support, the line between AU and OC is very blurred in this case, but we've decided to judge him like an OC since the AU was still based entirely around the characters and not really any specific world changes. This is perhaps unavoidable with what you were trying to do, which we should have realized sooner, and so we apologize for the inconvenience.