Link multiple Apple IDs for Facetime

Hello most helpful people! I'm sorry if this has been asked before but I haven't been able to find a solution.
So, in my household, we have a "family" iPad and each one of us has our own iPhone, Macbook, etc. (we're so close to being a pure Mac family...) I was wondering:
1) Is it possible to give each family member their own iCloud account to allow for iCloud backups for their own device
2) Allow each device to download its own content with their own Apple ID? (This I'm willing to change to a communal ID for App downloads, etc. as I can disable automatic downloads correct?)
3) Allow the communal iPad to ring&pick up FaceTime calls for each member (I was thinking have a communal apple id and then somehow linking each email to that id? would that work?
Currently, I tried to link another apple id to "receive messages/calls at" but it gives me an error as the emails are already associated with an apple id.
It'd be awesome if someone can help me devise a way to go about this! I'm completely stumped on how to approach this (and really, just doubting if this is even at all possible with how apple has set itself up.)
Thanks in advance for the input!

You can't just make up an email address to use as an AppleID since Apple send a confirmation/validation email to that address before enabling the account. If you can't get that email, you can't verify the account, so you're hosed.
All is not lost, though. There are many free email services you can use to get a valid, working email address which could be used as your alter-ego. Try Google's GMail for one.

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