Okay so someone out there asked for more bro headcanons... so here's the tea.
Probably should lay out the whole GRU daily grind first, right? So here's the thing — I think as soon as Ocelot joined that unit, he immediately ran into some major misunderstanding energy. Like, "bro you're literally so small but already that ambitious??" Raikov would probably be watching that kid real close, because ngl those kinda sudden career jumps? Suspicious as hell.
And so I think their whole "learning to tolerate each other" era would start with some kind of fight. Like, they both snap, neither knows what's happening — best case scenario, it ends with a couple of insults, worst case? Full-on brawl. But as we all know, nothing brings people together like a good fight and the inevitable ass-chewing they'd both 100% get. So they'd both get punished, like... idk how the army usually handles things? Anyway you can fill in the blanks there.
And right in that moment they'd both just kinda realize like "wait, damn, he's actually a solid dude, why weren't we talking before?" So they'd exchange a few words, all within the limits of their pride, and from there it would just evolve into brothers. Ocelot fucks up? —> Raikov swallows his pride and goes to bail him out. Just because "ugh he's small and stupid, he's gonna get himself into worse trouble, ugh." Plus I think Raikov was an only child, so having a brother — even a dumb one — would honestly be kinda cool for him.










