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Backstory isn't required to reveal character motivation. You're conflating the two. Backstory is simply information that sheds light on what a character was doing before the events of the established narrative (which Beginning of the End absolutely provides for Cinder). Character motivation is something else entirely, and something that Cinder completely lacks.

I think people need to stop saying that Cinder has no backstory, and start saying that she has no character motivation. Because that is a far more accurate description of her character, and speaks more aptly to her flaws.