| abstract | - Even after Ted and Robin broke up earlier in the series and tried to remain Just Friends their relationship went back to Will They or Won't They? off and on over the course of the series before Robin was with Barney. (And it still occurs even after Robin and Barney broke up and Barney has those issues with her as well.) Not too mention on how Ted and Robin have their promise to marry at 40 if they haven't already done so. Not too mention on the end of the 3rd episode of the 7th season in which Victoria walks away from Ted she states that Robin is the reason why none of Ted's other relationships over the course of the series worked out. Now you might be thinking "But Robin can't be the Mother since Future!Ted called her Aunt Robin" but that is because the show didn't want to reveal the identity of the mother already. (And lets be honest the show is not devoid of Fridge Logic over the course of the series.)
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* The deal they made no longer matters, as the most recent episode revealed that Ted's daughter is born by 2015.
* In the episode "Disaster averted", Robin is wearing a yellow coat, also visible behind various characters in screenshots. Significant?
* While the "I met your mother at Barney's wedding" thing might be explained away as "seeing a heretofore unknown facet of Robin's personality," the information from "Girls vs. Suits" (i.e., being Cindy's roommate, having weird and whimsical musical/artistic tastes) clashes pretty strongly with what we know of Robin. Unless Word of God declares that a red herring of some sort, this theory seems pretty unlikely.
* Actually plenty of the hints have been Red Herrings over the course of the series (Cindy's Roomate is Cindy's Lesbian lover for example). So we can't really rely on the "hints" anymore so one can't be too certain over who is going to be the Mother of Ted's children.
* Um....Cindy's roommate was not Cindy's lesbian lover. Where the hell did you get that from? Ted just thought she was the roommate for a minute. She was the Mother. Unequivocally, absolutely, undeniably the mother. The ankle that Ted glimpsed was the Mother's. The items scattered around the apartment were the Mother's. The hobbies and descriptions Cindy gave were of the Mother. The umbrella Ted left was the Mother's, and the Mother got it back. The room he was standing in was the Mother's. This is all stuff that Future Ted explicitly told his kids. Yeah, lots of red herrings...but they're all explained away as teases or insinuations. Future Ted never outright lies. And Cindy's roommate was the Mother. That is one single fact that we absolutely know with total certainty.
* She can't be: in the 12th episode of season 3, "No Tomorrow", Future!Ted says the mother was at the Saint Patrick's day party he went to; she was even the one who left the yellow umbrella he uses at the end of the episode. Robin was with Marshall and Lily at their new apartment while the party was going on, so it couldn't have been her.
* Not to mention it's been revealed That Robin can't have children.
* Jossed by the end of 2013.
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