Septimus Heap Doodles

IRL, I know Angie Sage broke them up because she wanted Sep to be interested in Driffa, and didn't want to complicate that with a pre-existing relationship. Plus, I get the impression that - maybe - Angie didn't get to develop the relationship between Sep and Rose as fully as she might have liked to. Far more time is spent on Sep's crush on Syrah, which ends up going nowhere, and - at the end of Fyre - Sep and Rose are still in their early days.

For my own headcanon, I think it being known that Sep would be E.O.W. soon might have been the real cause. I think Rose really did care about Sep, and didn't want there to be a conflict of interest between his duty to the Tower and the Castle, and his relationship with her.

Say there were another Darke Domain, contained, and - as nearly happened in Darke - Rose is on watch, would Sep risk the girl he loves for the sake of the Castle? If he did, and something happened, could he live with himself? If he didn't, and sent someone else instead, what would that say about the value he places on the lives of the other O.W.s under him?

It may even have been against the Wizard Tower code for the E.O.W. to be in a relationship with an O.W. All of the E.O.W. relationships we see are strictly external to the Wizard Tower; Marcia and Milo, Alther and Alice (maybe they really broke-up because their names weren't sufficiently alliterative); for the reason described above.

Would be interested to hear what other people think.

I’m bitter hehe

Also as a Driffa hater I really don’t see why we need Septimus to be interested in Driffa, especially when they don’t even end up together! It could have been easily written differently- or! Could have been the reason they broke up! Just… something, bleh