Agreed, there's just not much there for Jacob. NGL when he was first introduced on first playthrough I got strong "interracial sharing game partner" vibes from his character- and that's not a complement; more than a few games with the ntr tag attempt to avoid the 'thug bbc' trope by going hard in the other direction and making that character as bland and inoffensive as possible. (ofc having finished game his relative role is minor, but on first playthrough you never know which characters will become significant)
I'm not sure if I'm the racist for reducing black characters to these two archetypes, or if wayyy to many devs pigeonhole black characters into either "mega bbc thug" or "bland inoffensive good guy".
At the very least he works well as a contrast in personality for Warren and Governator-dude. Actually now that I think about it, even after complaining about him, the game could also use more of those characters to highlight the differences and provide a frame to the psychopaths within. Imagine Chuck having a small-statured dorky sidekick who tended to look the other way when shady dealings were transpiring
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