Rose is punishing Sep for being sooo annoying in the TodHunter Moon series. We don’t even know why they broke up!! Come on I wanna know the SeptimusRose lore
I seem to remember somewhere in Pathfinder saying that she dumped him because she wanted to date one of the Manuscriptorium guys (Foxy maybe, not sure though). I might be misremembering, I'm fairly sure she was stated to be dating someone from the Manuscriptorium, but I don't know for sure if it said that she'd left Sep for him.
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.
EDIT: Love the picture, by the way.
You remember correctly! Rose gets with Foxy but we are never given a direct reason why (at least in the books) they break up and as someone who actually liked their relationship I’m really frustrated not knowing why- especially after getting that yummy bit of dialogue StarChaser. I don’t mind them breaking up as they did start dating as teens and that rarely lasts in adulthood and it makes sense that Sep’s job makes things harder for their relationship, just… seems weird to have a perfectly good relationship in the last book not really be addressed in the second series except for “welp! Broke up!”
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
I’m glad you like the art and thank you for letting me ramble a bit lol. It’s wonderful seeing people in the fandom interacting!
