The Sargasso Incident

The Sargasso Incident was an awkward moment between Rowntree and Sargasso during their time together in The Wanderers, still kept alive by the sterling efforts of their friend Constantine.

While the tale has grown in the telling, the essence is as follows: Rowntree developed a crush on Sargasso, and asked her out. Sargasso, who was at that time going through one of many awkward phases in her transition, turned him down. Rowntree was fine with this, and they remained good friends and nothing bad came of it.

Oh no, wait, I'm describing what would have happened in a sensible universe.

Sargasso quite liked Rowntree, but was in no state of mind to figure out what she really wanted at that point and didn't have the time for a serious relationship. Rowntree was young and foolish, and had no idea how to deal with receiving mildly ambiguous signals. What followed was an embarassing hailstorm of awkwardness, as Rowntree tried to demonstrate that he was absolutely 100% fine with being sort-of-but-not-quite knocked back, and Sargasso tried to deal with him while dealing with her own issues at the same time.

When The Rose was founded, Rowntree was selected to join the cabal, and the distance did the pair of them some good. Still, the awkwardness remained for some time. It is only recently that Rowntree and Sargasso have managed to overcome the power of the Incident, and regain something of their former friendship.