[Here is what Ben knows about parents: there is typically one male and one female, they reproduce and give life to an offspring. They raise it. They release it.

He knows from Beatrix that a mother will love a daughter because it is hers; he does not know how fathers relate to daughters. He never had parents. He doesn't understand how the title moves from one non-biological individual to another. But Abigail has done it not once, but twice, with men who did not raise her, who only nominally released her.

Now three times. He will need to speak with Arkin more. Or Alana.

However:]

The definition of "weird" is, alternatively, suggesting something supernatural, something that is strange or bizarre, or connected with fate.

While you are using the figurative, colloquial speech, I would say no. I am, however, not the best judge of this. Perhaps it is crazy.

[He looks down at the mask, turning a strap over between his fingertips.]

But you know that I am crazy. It is not all that I am. Merely one thing. [One thing that he assigns, in and of itself, neither positive nor negative connotations. He looks back up.] If your compulsion to extend this status to others is crazy, that is only one thing that it is.

But if it is also sincere, then that must also be considered.