Originally Posted by Elly
And how do you know the players asking to keep the old expressions haven't seen the new ones on their own Tavs (or a Tav with the same face and body type)?

Maybe they should speak for themselves then?

Originally Posted by Elly
The original expressions were also worked on for months (I know one of them at least was in the files long before Patch 6, including the expressions). One could also argue that out of respect for that work, they shouldn't be cut completely from the game.

Larian already cut a ton of stuff from the game due to feedback or for unknown reasons. There were many things that I liked, which are gone forever and I have to live with it.

Originally Posted by Marielle
If I wanted to experience tragedy in the game, I would certainly choose the option to forgo the ritual, but should I have asked for a sad face for my Tav in that case? Should I have therefore asked for an additional dialogue option for Tav, who, after Astarion's words that he would never see the sun, realized what she had done and would feel that she had made a terrible mistake? If I wanted to play it that way, Tav's reactions would also break my roleplay. And the option of not being able to control her own actions and reactions along the way is there too - some higher power prevents Tav from looking for a way to heal Astarion, and makes her instead “joyfully” adventuring and doing other things, and in the finale, when Astarion is on fire, Tav can't even run after him - it's a complete inability to control her actions.

This. I don't remember there being any dialogue options for Tav to express their regret for not helping Astarion with the ritual. He also changes in that path, but Tav has no way to express their dislike about it like they do after ascending him. There's also the previously mentioned no possibility to break up with him during the graveyard date and leaving the scene.