User blog comment:FinalWholockianGrrlGamer/Analysis: Red Like Roses Part II/@comment-25029937-20151021055923/@comment-24891101-20151022052243

It's backstory. It's important. With a starting point, we can fairly accurately trace her development as a character through the past, and extract a trajectory. That's far more important than redundantly characterizing her in the present, when we've a good grasp of her ostensible character. With this information about her past, we can extrapolate to the present. This allows us to flesh her character in the present on levels that are hard to extract otherwise and may become plot-relevant later.