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when real people do kink in real life, you gotta do all that good out-of-scene stuff like discuss boundaries, set limits and expectations, check in with each other, do aftercare, et cetera et cetera et cetera... but in fiction, everything can be in-scene!

the people in that fanfic don't exist any more than, like, the make-believe sexy football star and make-believe sexy cheerleader in a couple's roleplay exist. that couple doesn't need to get into character and then pretend to be a sexy football star having an important consent conversation with a sexy cheerleader, because that's a conversation that's already happened out-of-scene and out-of-character. (i mean, if you're into in-character negotiations, chase your bliss.) when they're in that scene, they can just pretend to be a sexy football star having sex with a sexy cheerleader. that's okay.

when i say in fiction, everything is in-scene, i mean that the fiction IS the scene.

if someone went up to their partner and said "hey, wouldn't it be sexy if we pretended you were manipulating and controlling me in an unethical way for sex reasons?", and then they talked through all the good and necessary consent and risk-awareness things, and then they played that scene out - that's a made-up scenario where pretend bad things happen, but no real-world people come to real-world harm, right?

now, if someone writes a story where one character manipulates and controls another in an unethical way for sex reasons... that, too, is a made-up scenario where pretend bad things happen, but no real-world people come to real-world harm.

Victory and Death.

Eats anything. Anything. Would eat uranium

Adopts 34 cats, eventually goes on to rescue sick wild animals in the JW story.

Is as dumb as rocks. (Asura comms are a bit of an exception)

The commander is, presumably, very attractive.

There's an entire list of characters who are attracted to them, but they refuse all offers of sex.

Because of this, Snargle told them to buy a jade tech sex toy because they were 'so tense'

Despite being a prude (/j) they have read every Snargle Goldclaw book (which, despite being called risque romance from the author, we know is just smut with a little bit of plot. Booktok would love him)

While there are others with the title of 'Commander,' they never appear after lws2, and theres been no other "THE commander"s. Even though the commander stepped away from the pact.

The Commander likes heavy metal music.

There's a Commander Fan Club.

To save on voice acting in recent stories, the commander's pronouns are now almost always 'they/them," including written content. ANAW. Assigned Nonbinary at Wizard.

The norn Commander is a blackout drunk and stole a whole ass fucking tank while blackout drunk

They canonically view Aurene as their daughter

17. I already mentioned this five times but. Like. They literally have xReader written and published about them. thats

18. Sarcastic asshole (affectionate)

19. The meepy. Idk If this counts as a fact or not but the meepy ...

20. Everyone's commander everywhere exists. Your commander is an AU of my commander. My commander is an AU of your friend's commander. In the terms of lore of the game, the mist war is a bunch of different commanders going at it

21. The sylvari commander is like 12 years old

22. They have a criminal record

23. They have a fashion sense

24. They also canonically have battle scars (but the only scars you can really get are on a few different face models)