@unforth-ninawaters
Heinrickson! Crap, I can’t believe I forgot about Victor! He was one of my favorites in the early seasons! Okay, so that’s 8. Still pathetic, though.
I’m lucky because I can’t recall ever seeing Victor as a bad guy but I’m pretty sure it would piss me off because, like you said, he was such a good guy. I freaking loved him. I can definitely see balancing out Gordon or Uriel with Heinrickson. (Now I’m irritated with myself because I could’ve put Victor on a pirate ship but I used Rufus. Dammit.)

But yeah, the POC track record is pathetic. And it’s a pain in the ass when trying to navigate that in fic. Esp when, honestly, Gordon, the Alpha Vamp, and Uriel were really fun bad guys. They were all charismatic an alluring in their own ways. But you only really have Rufus, Max Banes, Joshua, and Heinrickson as counterbalances. Which, yeah that’s great but there should be enough black guys that you don’t need to worry about balancing it out and not portraying them all as assholes. It’s definitely a sucky situation but at least there is some way of kinda making it better when those three (or Raphael) just work best as antagonists.