Who is Romeo Rosales from Dogeaters and what is their importance?

Romeo Rosales is an aspiring actor in Manila. He claims to be friends with the action star Tito Alvarez, who will get him a screen test for a studio. Romeo is also personal waiter to the richest man in the Philippines, Severo Alacran, at his country club. Romeo has a brief affair with the innocent Trini Gamboa, but he immediately begins to avoid her. The day she finds him, and he expressly rejects her, Romeo is gunned down by the military, who frame him as Senator Avila's assassin.