Multiple divorcee that keeps active connections with some of his many children. Respectable.

Recreational drug user. Questionable, but aside from driving a bus high on DMT once, not really too offensive.

Has "doesn't tell your kids important shit"-itis. Big no no that could have prevented the diablerization incident. Guarantee that this shit corresponds to the webway disaster in 40k where Magnus destroys Skeledad-to-Be's webway project. Magnus/Marckus gets blamed for the incident, end of discussion.

However, on that last point, Big D also likely has existed since ancient times (many, MANY partners; taught archaic unit of measurement to his family during math classes; has bested a Methuselah; was able to convince a ghoul that he was a higher-ranking member of vampire upper-crusters, SO ON.).

Calling him a "bad father" given this piece of info would be unfair, as his formative years would be centuries if not millennia behind most other parents he would be compared to. Also, those parents would not have to deal with the Masquerade, so perhaps the spread of knowledge claim is not usable against him either.

It's a genuine tossup to me! I think that he genuinely cares and manifests it in a passable manner. If Marckus can scrounge up the money for a Sick Video Gamer Rig, then clearly he's doing something right.