Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-26523073-20150623001037/@comment-64.33.250.214-20150723110109

While it's a nice sentiment, Ocelot hasn't been in enough games for the story to be about him. He was entirely absent until MGS1, and was absent from many of the side games (including Peace Walker and Ground Zeroes). In MGS2 and MGS4, he's not even completely himself, as he was possessed by Liquid's spirit and underwent hypnotherapy in those respective games.

You could even argue that Ocelot never followed Big Boss simply out of admiration for him, but because Boss inherited The Boss's legacy, and the spirit of the warrior that The Sorrow spoke of. Ocelot has mommy and daddy issues, and by protecting Big Boss he's also preserving their spirit. This is also why he doesn't blindly follow Boss's clones, even though they are made of the same material and have similar goals, and was willing to turn on them when he thought they were failing in their shared objectives. Big Boss's objective was to realize The Boss's ideals, so Ocelot joined forces with him out of mutual interests.

As a side note, I never noticed how big Ocelot's nose was in Phantom Pain until I saw this image. He looks like some type of angry rodent, like a Rattata from Pokemon.