Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6533159-20151015224111/@comment-24994749-20151021031247

73.Anon.52 wrote:

MetallicArcher wrote: I'm not saying it's impossible for Taiyang and Summer to have not been married, I'm saying that Ruby not carrying Taiyang's surname =/= Taiyang and Summer not having been married. I would find it more logical if people justified the theory of Summer and Taiyang not being married by saying he might still be legally married to Raven. And that would be assuming marriage in Remnant works like marriage here in the West. What makes you think the latter is not the justification for that theory? they aren't mutually exclusive. Raven left, but we don't know at this point why or if Taiyang even knew at first that she wasn't dead, it took about a year before they had Ruby, and we still don't know their ages at the time of Summer's death. No, they are not mutually exclusive, but literally every single person whom I have seen propose the "Taiyang and Summer were not married", part from the fact Ruby doesn't have her father's surname, and then propose "maybe they weren't married because since Raven just vanished, Taiyang is still legally married to her".

Their line of thinking is:

Ruby doesn't have Taiyang's surname ->THUS-> Taiyang and Summer weren't married ->MAYBE BECAUSE-> Taiyang is still married to Raven

Rather than:

Raven just vanished ->MAYBE-> Taiyang is still legally married to her ->THUS-> Taiyang and Summer couldn't marry ->MAYBE THAT'S WHY -> Ruby doesn't carry Taiyang's surname