Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Larian, please ensure you don’t take away player agency with AA in patch 7

I'll try and keep this brief because I have posted at length in the other threads on this section and to some extent I will be repeating myself.

First of all, I am pleased that Tav's facial expressions are being changed in Patch 7 and are apparently going to be more positive.
I would hope that the body-language might be changed too, because it was very disturbing seeing my character asking for a kiss and responding to it by apparently being frozen in terror. I have never been triggered by a game before and that was a particularly nasty shock, especially since it was promoted by the phrase 'Love is in the air' and all the extra kisses for the other Origin Characters were actually romantic and joyful.

I don't feel changing the expressions to make them more positive would be a loss of player agency because the kisses are something the player has to request not an action that Astarion initiates and I think that is a very important distinction.
Players do not have to ask Ascended Astarion for a kiss if they dislike him and Players who wish to RP their Tav as being trapped and unwilling in a relationship with him, can easily head-cannon a pleased/neutral expression as being forced.
In contrast, players who want a traditional dark romance, have no plausible explanation for their character being totally happy in the relationship and making positve responses in the dialogue but looking limp and terror-struck every time they request a kiss.

Personally, I think the Patch 6 kisses were a mistake because Tav's expression and body-language completely contradict the dialogue between A.Astarion and Tav, where Astarion seems possessive but loving and willing to acquiesce to their wishes.
However, those Patch 6 kisses are in the game now and people would be upset if they were removed. So, I think damage limitation by changing Tav's expressions to be more positive and hopefully changing their body-language too, is the best response.
Larian have stated they are moving onto new projects so I doubt they want to spend a lot of time fixing this, when there are other issues that can actually break the game.

I don't agree with leaving the original Patch 6 expressions in-game as an option because I feel they are too close to depicting assault and intimate partner violence for a game of this rating.