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Precisely. It's an organisational tool rather than something that restricts your character to a certain thing in that case. A way to keep track of perhaps where they have been, who they have met and skills/abilities they have learned while IC for instance. C:
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However in group RP's it's the exact opposite for me. It's not really an info dump - as a GM, I could care less about your character sheet and the info in it as long as it makes sense and fits the world. And that leads it into the next point - it's both a proof of concept for a character fitting the world as well AND the writer being capable of, yknow, stringing more than 2 sentences together in a good way.

With trusted partners it's less about that and more about infodump, but in group RP, not really.