UCK

after jesse and the rest get teleported to the sunshine institute theyre stuck in there for wayy longer than they were in the game. in the meantime the scene from episode 4 with lukas and the admin happens and after that it doesnt take that long for him to realize that its not actually jesse so at one point he confronts the impostor about it. romeo reveals himself and while usually he would just send lukas to the sunshine institute, he knew that he was a friend of jesse and believed that having one of his friends by his side would prevent more people from getting suspicious of him.he offered to let lukas continue living in beacontown as long as he doesnt reveal this to anyone else and act like his friend around people (kinda like olivia and axel did except he would have to stay close to the admin most of the time to not reveal his secret) and at first lukas wanted to turn down the offer but quickly realized that he has no idea what would happen if he did so and staying in beacontown would mean he could make sure nothing bad happened to anyone and form a plan to take down the admin.

time went by and the new ocelots formed and whenever lukas was away from the admin he would plan with the ocelots on how to take him down. he didnt realize that romeo knew from the start that something like this would happen but waited for the moment they were actually confident that they could win to then step in and make the new ocelots dissapear right in front of lukas who believed they died (ofc they didnt, romeo just teleported them away making lukas believe they got killed) which in his eyes was to teach lukas a lesson. after that lukas changed his goal from taking down the admin to making sure that doesnt happen to anyone else as he was convinced that there is no stopping him. from that moment he spent most of his time near the admin and when he wasnt with him he was making sure no one did anything that could make romeo angry which made him become colder towards everyone even tho he just wanted to protect them. having the pressure of keeping everyone safe while not angering the admin caused him to become more paranoid and lose hope of the real jesse ever returning.