So when I saw a playthrough of Lament of the Damned (not quite there yet myself, it's a big game and I didn't have the self-restraint not to look up all the Vincent scenes) I immediately noticed something
it might be accidental on SE/the writer's part, since different staff/scenario writers/animators have worked on projects over the years, but Vincent seems to have this consistent character tic: whenever he's feeling really strongly Some Type of Way, he ducks his head (usually looking away at the same time)
my screenshots aren't good, so from the top:
first one: the mildest example - Shalua comments how 'the beast' [Chaos] in Vincent seemed to have gone wild back in Edge & asks if it happens often. Vincent ducks his head - could be shame or embarassment, though his next dialogue line seems like he's more concerned that Chaos doesn't come out to play that often
second one: much bigger example, this I believe absolutely is a strong feeling on his part. Following on from the above, Shalua puts the pieces together and assumes the reason that Vincent has the Chaos gene is because of Lucrecia's experiments. She doesn't realise Vincent didn't know about this, effecively putting her foot in it and implying to his face that the man who is still down bad for Lucrecia was nothing more than experiment to her. She backpedals hard after this but Vincent is visibly shocked, ducking his head while he tries to take it in
third one: another big one. Vincent makes his one effort to stop Lucrecia taking part in the JENOVA Project, she shuts him down, he immediately goes to feeling resigned and withdrawn, not getting any words out after 'Oh... I just...'
bottom one: from Rebirth (see this post by @getvalentined for a video version, the way he moves is more pronounced than it looks). Barret makes a crack about 'monsters have feelings' and Vincent, who had been expressing empathy for the fiend and offering his opinion voluntarily to the party, shuts down again. Barret seems to notice this and backpedal a bit, but I suspect he didn't realise why Vincent took it so personally (story for another post, though)
I think it's likely that the makers did that intentionally in Dirge since all the examples are in the same game, but I like to imagine it applies to Rebirth since it fits in with Vincent's major weakness - he has a tendency to retreat into himself when he's feeling something strongly and to not express himself at crucial moments. He was definitely more emotive before the trauma Hojo visited on him happened, but even then it suggests he had an urge to hide his feelings and thoughts even before he had a cape with a massive collar to hide in
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