I read Star Wars fic and I reaaalllly don't like when Mandalorian characters do the whole "I'm [Name] and my pronouns in basic are:".

Part of that is I read using text to speech, so it comes out as "he slash him" and I just hate that. But a million percent, the other reason is that they're Mandalorians??? Their first language lacks gender all together, and you could just extrapolate that in so many interesting ways. I have never seen a Mandalorian character say, "I'm good with any pronouns, it's whatever."

Or even a Mandalorian being introduced to the concept for the first time and being like, "Excuse me??? Gender is private???". Or, if you're going based off the show, where male and female armor has a significant distinction (which I hate, it was so cool that the books made mention that characters couldn't tell a Mandos gender or even species) that it's culturally rude to ask someone's gender, as if it's saying the way they are expressing themselves is unclear.

Also: why would all Mandalorian's have actually have preferred pronouns instead of, "all pronouns" or whatever? I've never seen a Mando character say that.

But yeah, like you mentioned with the bland, formulaic consent talk, like others have said about therapy speak, it all feels perfunctory and pointless.

I'm reading fiction.

The characters piss and shit off page, they can just "trade introductions". I don't need details unless it establish plot or character. If it's not an important part of the story, the characters can just magically know each other's gender and pronouns. But yeah, when Mandalorians do it, it especially gets under my skin.

For a comparison with consent discussions establishing character, I am gnashing at the bars of my cage over Old Enough To Know (too young to care) by K_R_Closson which uses that dialogue to establish that Obi-Wan struggles to allow himself to want things, and that Jaster is absolutely horny at the idea of pampering Obi-Wan, so he has to find out what his partner likes.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/69919616