Try being the operative word.

[His countenance suddenly shifts. Suddenly, he sounds and looks like the inconceivably brilliant strategist the papers make him out to be. The madness still glitters in his eye though, and his mind is as dark as a thunderstorm.]

I've been the father to plenty of children, the kids who are abandoned and orphaned by war, I've given them a place to stay and a purpose.

But those science projects of Zero's aren't my kids.