Haha that's a good way to look at it. He hasn't adjusted well to it, it was more a situation where Peter had to make the call to let him die or make him a Lost. He's still a sweetiepie to be sure.
Mao is shy as hell, but he's really blossoming in the treehouse so he's becoming less so (at least with fellow treehousers)
Good to be scared of Pike, he's gotten worse and less caring about who he hurts. Still he'll try to pretend he's treehouse when he sees new peep posting ;)