Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24.93.195.246-20141027020600/@comment-4010415-20160127012313

Y'know, they originally didn't intend for Roman to stick around either, but while they were working out the script for Volume 1, they decided they loved Roman enough to integrate him into the bigger story they had planned out beforehand. They've mentioned that he has a backstory.

So, you never know. Maybe there's a place in Roman's backstory where they were able to insert Neo, or maybe they were able to work out a backstory for Neo separately.