[Taking care of a child, hm? Not something Zenyatta would naturally have imagined Auron doing without prompting, but now it has him wondering; as he watches his face now, he cannot decide if there might be some paternal impulse under that still, serious facade.

But then, if there were, how would he recognise it? His only "father" was a heat-belching factory beneath the earth.]

You do yourself a disservice, Auron- or perhaps you simply do not see how much they mean to you. Anyone with a heart would feel protective of someone younger in their time of need. Indeed, my first student is fifteen years older than me and more than capable of caring for himself, and he has nonetheless inspired incredible feelings of protectiveness within me over the years.