you've seen for yourself, and in this thread including, that people are triggered by the actions themselves, the animations themselves. So, there should be animations that won't trigger people at all, not to any degree.
For the most part it’s not the animations themselves triggering people but the disconnect between the animation and a smiling Tav, just like you had a disconnect when Tav wasn’t smiling at the same animations. That’s why they were triggered. You don’t know what will trigger people. What if a gentle kiss will trigger people as well? It’s not about this anymore.
The reasons why adding gentle kisses similar to UA would worsen the narrative are valid and serious. I will not go into it further though, because you will not see sense in anything I say even though it is valid. It will only open another can of worms and the conversation will derail into something completely else.
So again, I’ll just say, keep everything as it is right now. Keep the animation as they are, keep smiling Tav, and leave everything alone. The player needs to exercise healthy habits and leave the game if they feel uncomfortable with anything they see. Avoiding triggers in a game that is full of dark topics is not possible and dancing around everyone’s triggers is neither fair nor possible anyway.
