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Just my thought pattern but here goes:
Option 1 - works well if all we're gonna have is conversations with only the upper body making gestures to depict emotions/moods.

Option 2 - gives more room for full body expressions. if something is supposed to be happening in the background during the conversation, then there is a possibility of missing portions of it depending on location.

Option 3 - is more spaced out but the text box may be taking up most of the focus due to its bigger size.

Option 4 - has the best spacing and size comparison between the portrait and the text box, which still allows you to view the full body expressions without much issue.

Option 5 - pretty standard stardew fashion. it would definitely limit your expressions to facials only in order to fit the portrait box but is overall pretty basic in comparison to the others.

Overall, I'd have to go with options 2 or 4 as the best out of the 5.

This is brilliant information to digest. thanks again for being detailed with this stuff. I'm on the side of 4 being the best option overall as well. I'm looking at 2 again and I could see it being good if I do some tweaking to how it all meshes.

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After some suggestions about the character size, we came up with this. Does it change your choice? 

I'm very much ok with this size choice. Well done.

Perfect! Then 4.1 it will be! Time to move onto the next step of making ever character!!