This may be WAY too much to ask. But do you think you would consider making different animations depending on if you have the charm ring or not? The reason I ask is because the scenes right now go with that idea I think. I just don't see the the whole 'Hey let's take a breather and have some fun before we get back to killing each other' thing lol.
I don't know how all that would work coding wise but I just thought it might be a neat idea to have the more 'aggressive' without it. Or maybe even have armor hit points or something to where if they strip you down you take you after or something. I don't know just throwing things out there.