Originally Posted by AnnaMyrk
By asking to leave expressions of fear in the game - you're asking to remove AA, who wasn't the one who scared Tav.

That's not true. Tav could always be scared of AA. For example, they can be intimidated out of breaking up with him. Since you brought up the devnotes, the notes for his line in that scene even indicate he's supposed to sound threatening and abusive.

Originally Posted by AnnaMyrk
In what specific parts of the game before patch 6 did you see the animal fear on Tav's face when interacting with AA?

Have you seen Tav's heartbroken face at the epilogue party when they ask for freedom? And their expressions in the romance scene (which has always been there) are much closer to the Patch 6 expressions than they would be to the new ones.


Originally Posted by AnnaMyrk
Why should I agree with something that came out as much as six months after the game came out and turned the character of AA upside down? AA had a tender kiss for half a year, I don't understand why you insist he wouldn't be a good fit for your Tav?

Again, that it "turned the character upside down" is your opinion. The kisses and Tav's reactions to them were an intentional addition, and at least one of them has been in the game files for much longer than Patch 6 (you could see it in Karlach's origin route). It didn't change the narrative, it added to one that already existed, that being the story of a Tav who feels scared and trapped.

Originally Posted by AnnaMyrk
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Playing Tav as unhappy or afraid of AA but still staying in the relationship has always been possible, since long before the kisses were added.

Until the epilogue, such a Tav does not exist in the game.

Originally Posted by AnnaMyrk
there are no moments where Tav is panic-stricken of AA.

That's not true. Tav can express uncertainty before and during the romance scene, and there have always been options that very clearly indicated they were afraid of him (see my example with the breakup dialogue above).

Originally Posted by AnnaMyrk
Since the game's release there have only been happy facial expressions when kissing

Yes, because AA didn't yet have kisses that were exclusive to him. He kept the same kiss he had as spawn, which wouldn't have given Tav any reason to suddenly be afraid or unsettled if he just kissed them the same way he always had.