I saw an excellent solution for our problem on reddit. I can't take credit for it, so I will just show this screenshot of what this user on Reddit came up with:
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A lot of people supported this as a perfect solution.

IMO, this would be indeed a perfect solution, especially as there are already plenty of such dialogue scenes in the game, for example: all of the Durge scenes where only the narrator speaks. It would fit perfectly with the spirit of the game and previous dialogue choices. We can be satisfied with just two options as we now have two different existing animations.

Please, Larian, give us this option to choose and give us back our agency to play Tav as we see fit for our RP. Thank you.