So I’m totally chill with Q/Arielle/Eliot being a poly family, and either Rupert is the name of Arielle’s dad, *or* she took Q’s last name when they got married--mostly cuz I have this funny as hell mental image of Eliot being like “No I am NOT taking your name, the kid is getting Waugh! WaughWaughWaugh! Fucking hyphenate that shit, you weirdly heteronormative bi-disaster!!!” And stamping his foot with epic pout-power.Â
. . . it just makes me giggle.
Though I am still a teeny tad bit uncomfortable about Arielle being killed off when Teddy was so young, because it does kinda reek of “Convenient Uterus” syndrome. Wherein yeah, sure, they were a poly family . . . for a minute until Arielle had the good manners to die, having provided Queliot with a small child to raise.Â
Don’t get me wrong, it doesn’t ruin the storyline for me, and I love the Coldwater-Waugh thing. But if S5 ever does revisit the Fillory Timeline directly, like with flashbacks, I hope it’s not 100% scenes of the Coldwater-Waugh family after her death, like just celebrating the fuck out of The Dads and Teddy Being Adorable! While Arielle is just the fondly remembered Mom-ghost. I’d want at least a scene or two fully celebrating their throuple-ness as opposed to the 3x05 content which just implied that’s what they were. Damn, we really do ask a lot of our writers, don’t we??? Like we’re a ravenous pack of demanding motherfuckers over here! It’s amazing they tolerate us. Â