Shoving this thread back on topic, I feel like if people want to better shape their opinion of Vic, we need more of Vic. I mean even something small like a Father's Day or birthday thing.
And on the note of everyone's opinion of Vic, I have a wishy-washy relationship with my own father so I kind of implanted that onto Steele Jr. In my own headcanon, Steele wants to be successful like Vic, but due to various circumstances in Steele Jr's teens there wasn't enough exposure to Vic to really get a feel of what it's like to succeed the man. And there's at least one bit - I think someone mentioned it a few pages ago - about Jr reflecting on a trip with Vic to a resort during the Treatement or something.
Small bits of reminiscing about Vic - good or bad - would help establish more of who he was, rather than some amorphous blob of a father. And on the topic of what he looked like, I just imagine that in his prime - not accounting for mods - that he would've been decently tall, fit, with a business cut. A man who wore nice suits and could be both charming and imposing. However, after a few hundred years, the imposing factors would fade and Vic would become a more humble old man, realizing that everything he's built could all collapse without a successor, especially if Max's little shit finishes what Max started and leeches Steele Tech until it is torn asunder.
You also have to think of not just Victor and Max, but everyone employed by Steele Tech. Based on talking with Anno about Vic, he cared about his employees, all of them, like they were a part of the Steele family to some extent or another. It would be horrible to have the new lives he'd given them be ruined by Max, or by the company collapsing in general. You're not just doing this quest for Vic's legacy or your own, but for the livelihood of everyone at Steele Tech, cute fluffy puppers included.
Please note that most of the last blob of text was my own interpretation of events and not necessarily canon.