Raphael CoC1>Nakano
Raphael gives a useful bodysuit, the rapier skill, offers male furry sex if that's your thing, cringe but in a harmless way like I always imagined him talking with a fake french accent, easy to remove once you're done with him or he's just not your thing, an actual character.
Nakano is a mall ninja who offers literally nothing but a couple quests.
Also CoC2 Raphael removed from the narrative framing is really not any different from everyone else we deal with ingame. Aggressive and wants to fuck as a power move? That's all hostile encounters and even some non-hostile ones. The only thing that sets him apart is Tobs uses Kinu to shit on him and to make his actions contextually worse. But like, the kitsune are guilty of what Raphael has done if not more. Not counting the arson.
So to satisfy my curiosity on just why Tobs hates OG Raphael so much I delved into ye olden official forums. First I actually stumbled onto Tobs's god awful defense of the Burrows stuff and him talking about how dealing with characters like OG Raphael, Dr. Badger, and Riya was a power fantasy and how poor Franks got pressured into moving Riya and facing no punishment as if that were a bad thing. In that mess I learned something. Tobs at the very least does not comprehend what an actual RPG game is.
Tobs's logic in response to "I'm not bi so why is my character" was to proclaim that it's an RPG and the Champ is bi so deal with it and true story freedom only comes in TTRPGs. Thing is, there's a massive difference between an actual RPG and a action adventure game with dialogue choices and RPG inspired progression. To use an example let's look at Baldur's Gate 3 and the Witcher 3. Both phenomenal games. However despite being referred to as an RPG and sharing mechanics, you aren't playing a role like the genre calls for. You are Geralt, following Geralt's story and events, you can only make choices that Geralt would. It's like calling Ape Escape or any other game an RPG because you're playing the role of Spike. Compared to something like BG3 where you can dictate your character, sexuality, morality, experiences, and such within reason for what the code and devs can allow. There isn't true freedom like a TTRPG but there's a clear difference between following and influencing a preexisting character and playing a role set by the player. It's why JRPG and Western RPG despite sharing the roleplaying designation are viewed as separate genres outside of different takes on the mechanics.
Tobs seems to be firmly in camp "anything is an RPG if it says it is, everything else be damned" when there's an obvious difference and various subgenres or things called RPGs that only borrow mechanics with a level up progression system.
TL

R Tobs doesn't understand the RPG genre or what constitutes an RPG and he's a dummy poopoo head. In other news, rocks are hard.
Also I found this:
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Look I've joked about it and I'm sure others have before me, but I think we might be playing Savin's TTRPG campaign for real but railroaded to hell and back.
Also for those curious if I found the answer I was looking for before I went on a tangent, all I can find is second hand that Tobs thinks Raphael was a creepy stalker and took his interpretation to an extreme for some unknown reason. Maybe Tobs had beef with the author or thought Raphael introducing his mechanics was an unearned power fantasy or he got salty because Raphael wouldn't train him cause he was playing a guy. I don't know I blew my caffeinated load on rambling about RPGs to show how Tobs doesn't get the genre, and that's probably shared by his boss, for two paragraphs that probably make more sense to me than anyone else.