winterless said:
Actually it's the other way around: the commissioner doesn't want her to be associated with the GFL copyright if she isn't wearing the uniform. These screencaps provide context (provided by sycer13):
First one directly addresses this topic.
Second one directly addresses the broader topic.
She is, like you mentioned, originally a GFL commander that is now a full OC used by their character for "tactical girl" pictures. This entire argument has blown out of Kommandant wanting to retroactively apply the tag to her regardless of whether she's wearing the G&K uniform or if she's wearing her new (post #5511433) outfit that has zero visual indicators that she's a G&K commander. And most of her recent images have her in this outfit.
More importantly, this argument has been going on in spite of the commissioner weighing in and telling us that they don't want the GFL tag where it would be inappropriate. If she's wearing the beret or the G&K uniform, yes, she'll be tagged as a commander; this is how it has been done until very recently when this argument spawned. I don't think the previous method was inappropriate, either.
The only thing those messages are saying is "leave me alone, I don't care about this".
This argument for "non-GFL" vs "GFL" outfits would make sense if the commissioner's timeline wasn't full of things like https://twitter.com/xerbatt/status/1707387182179041401 or https://twitter.com/god284777/status/1709441902750343335, so I find it really disingenuous that you would try to spin this argument as tag vandalism when you tried to get the artist to sign pre-approved statements. To me it just looks that the commissioner has never thought nor cares about this.
That said, looking into the commissioned pieces with no visual reference to GFL, I see that the commission message makes no mention of GFL whatsoever: take for example https://skeb.jp/@DreadTie_tw/works/17 or the reference sheet in https://imgur.io/a/O09CSSc.
For the sake of ending this ridiculous discussion, in cases like these, we can discard the commander tag and just tag the character as OC, unless in the future new GFL elements should appear in this design.
For instances where the character was clearly thought of as a commander instead, such as the bikini + beret outfit, or when the commentary explicitly references GFL, or when it's tagged on pixiv, then it should get the commander tag, because that's what the picture is obviously representing.