I may do the others eventually but for Alfred:

When I was getting out of the Navy someone said "Sooner or later, you'll miss this. If you never miss it, it means you never loved it."

I made Alfred right after I got out and he wasn't meant to be a representation of my life at all — his whole initial plot was inspired by this book I read about an expedition — but whenever he geeks out about nautical knowledge in a post I get a sort of "oh, yeah. Nostalgia." feeling that makes me think of what that chief told me when I was getting out.