I'd call that a mark of general worldliness. And hey, sometimes simple is the way to go.

My father founded it when I was still a child. We picked up all sorts of people, including two former knights of Crimea. We teased each other a lot, and sometimes we didn't always get along.

[Looking at you, Shinon.]

But what my father said about us was true. It didn't matter what our blood ties were -- we were a family.