I can just imagine canonically that while yeah everyone gets freaked tf out by Barok Van Zieks he definitely has a fuckton of victorian fangirls because, yeah, there is a rumour he may have orchestrated several murders but he is hot. Women probably sit in the courtroom desperate to get seats behind the prosecutors bench for the chance for him to knock them out with his wine bottle toss (yes in a horny way) and swoon whenever he slams his leg on the desk. Not to mention the women who pass him in the street and totally discretely show him their ankles or some other dumb fucking flirting technique they used back then.