Personally I am totally with you on the expression during the kneeling kiss, in both patch it’s too much. In patch 6 it looked like Tav was mortified which disappears once he kisses them which doesn’t make sense. In patch 7 many described it as “orgasmic” idk. Optional expressions locked behind a one time toggle is all we want. Nobody is taking anything from you, nobody is taking anything from us. Also agree on the dialogue about the dynamic, which is exactly why I think it is intended as abusive. Were it anything BDSM related, there would’ve been dialogue about it.
Honestly I just take it as Larian's PC expressions are frankly kind of badly overly exaggerated a lot of the time. I'm currently using the stoic expressions mod for my own sanity because so often it just...no. The companions are fine the PC though? Bleh.
The complete lack of the player being able to frankly tell him he's being abusive is what gets me. I don't need clown expressions I want dialogue from the player. I want conversations. Especially since they have him immediately flip a switch instead of doing a slow decline. Or at the very least let me interact with the companions being concerned about it. Give me the player dumping him for being abusive (not this but Cazador shit after it's been 2 days), let my PC actually be able to discuss the aggressiveness of the kisses, give me the player desperately asking other companions for help at the party (and either being stopped via compulsion or the companions agreeing to help off screen). The expressions are just lazy. I want fucking meat if they want to do an abusive plot.
(And I'm someone who likes dead dove content but if you're going to half ass it just don't)
