I just read the OP again, and the thing that struck me is that Rax's conversation with little Armitage is completely erased. Like it's only important that Armitage, somehow, got put in charge of these kids, not that the most powerful person he's ever met at this point, put him in that position, stirred the pot violently, and abandoned him.

I mean, yeah. Armitage is really unsympathetic in that scene if you cut out most of the scene.