i have more bullet points about rodion's naïvety fading away ☝️ genuinely im convinced this was lowkey the plan with him. pepe_silvia_board.png but with rodion. Anyway heres my thoughts about how rodion becomes more jaded But not like hopelessly misanthropic:
okay so they put rodion w literally a trio of already jaded and chewed up and spit out soldiers. like the entire rest of the squad is older dudes who know how the army actually works and theyre not going to like sugar coat it at all for him very quickly he will discover reality but hes VERY CAPABLE. so it doesn't like make him feel like life is Doomed
like rodion is super positive hes very We can do it !!!!!! about everything. literally an angel.
but like kamarov is kamarov even in the spec ops storyline he goes against coalition/tf 141/laswell whatever. HES GOT HIS OWN GOALS !! but rodion wouldnt feel very good about it. bc hes thinking everyone is working together. as One Big Mult National Group. Uh huh.
and kamarov Is slimey but hes really just distrusting of others bc he understands that its them before us. and he wants his forces to do what he thinks is best -_- he's just a cunt .. i mean Nikolai gives him a side eye. and nikolai is the most chill motherfucker in mw19.
but anyways im thinking if makarov takes over the russian military again like he does in the og game then kamarov (and others but we dont know them by name) splits from the actual named russian military. spets group goes w him obviously. which means RODION would rly be more jaded i think he'd understand more that the military is just an arm of force not something that necessarily "does good." but like. he would support kamarov so he still gets to keep his positive outlook... the baby lives forever.....
as well if nikto being awol is part of da plan to keep an eye on what makarov is up to to report back to kamarov bc makarov has higher up support.. well that is just a nice little bow on a side plot. which means none of this will happen bc mw sucks big fat ugly nuts