I completely agree. The new expressions are the furthest thing from neutral or open to interpretation, they completely invalidate one half of the narrative. They are entirely unfitting for any kind of character but a very particular one that I have no interest in playing. Not to mention that I find Tav's expression during the kneeling kiss extremely uncomfortable, to say the least. If these will be the only expressions available after patch 7, I don't think I can play this romance anymore. Not in a way that feels comfortable to me, or makes even the least bit sense for my Tav.
I don't want to get too deep into it here, but to me these new faces are incredibly triggering, as it feels too much like they are turning a serious situation into something simply kinky and making light of it, in a way. Seeing Tav be forced to react in those ways felt horrible to me. I had a similar kind of visceral reaction to seeing them as other players had to Patch 6.
It's really funny watching you all post "oh I can't play anymore because they changed the tone of the character".
I'm an early access player. I've also been playing the game since release. They've changed AA's intonations, animations and facial expressions at least 10 times since then, with all sorts of patches and fixes. Now you say "patch 6 is canon", but actually six months before that we had completely different, smiling kissing animations. And we quietly played with them for six months. There was no need for patch 6 at all, it's a banal fanservice for the 14th of February.
Of course, many AA fans were upset because they had already been playing with different character tones for half a year. Now you're telling them that "patch 6 is canon". Is that something you just made up yourself now? All they did in patch 7 was bring back the character tone they stole from us in patch 6. I hope that's clear.
