Nero looked at the wide smile on Footers face, fully aware of the fact that the man himself was in Whisper Guard. Did he know that Nero was aware?
But, in a much more subtle way, his description did match him now that he thought about it. Even Ms. Zim to an extent. They really did not care for the rules, and were always telling him things that he was fairly certain he really shouldn't know. That was not even considering the redacted research paper Nero had delivered to his dorm, or the underground secret curse holding facility he was brought to.
The wide grin now that there was an ongoing war also fit really well into his own definition of being crazy. The one thing it didn't fit was his father.
Sure, he broke the rules when he gave Nero his innate card. But doing something out of concern for his own son, and being a chronic rule breaker were not the same thing. Maybe that was just Footers' way of trying to cheer him up.