[ do as rex does, and laugh to hide the pain!! or, alternately, (redacted) ] The apocalypse bit? Yeah. The brainwashing bit? No, but not for lack of trying.

[ Rex's expression sobers here, though, as he looks out across the ocean for a moment. ]

...you're wrong there, though. You can choose your family. My brother's--well, my brother, but I've got other people who're my family now too.