How much would it twist the knife if I had the mother of the child that Zeno is a direct clone of actually part of the entire experiment? As in, she willingly slept with Albert in an attempt to conceive a child as a means of continuing the Wesker Project for Spencer, but then Umbrella folded and she was later scooped up by the Connections.
Zeno was the first successful clone of that son to successfully bond with the T-virus. It's unknown why the clones themselves have issues bonding with it, though it's likely a kink with gene expression from the cloning process itself, yet the Connections are reticent to test anything out on the original. They believe it's not worth the risk to the original, as they can just make as many clones as they would like.
(This means that there are possibly other Zenos out there, possibly even under the same name, possibly not. They're never aware of the other, if they do exist.)
I'm just imagining how horrified Zeno would be to not only discover that he's not a direct clone of Albert Wesker, but of his son (not Jake, who Zeno is aware of), AND that his mother was willingly involved in the project. What mother could put her own child into stasis and continue making clones of, knowing how those clones are going to be turned into weapons?
