Robin Scorpio
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| Dr. Robin Scorpio | |||||||||||||||||
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 Kimberly McCullough as Robin Scorpio. |
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| General Hospital | |||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Kimberly McCullough | ||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | August 1985 | ||||||||||||||||
| Created by | Anne Howard Bailey | ||||||||||||||||
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| Gender | Female | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | October 12, 1978 | ||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Neuropathologist | ||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Port Charles, New York | ||||||||||||||||
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Dr. Robin Scorpio (né Soltini) is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera, General Hospital. The character is a resident of Port Charles and daughter to WSB Agents Robert Scorpio and Anna Devane. Kimberly McCullough began playing the role of Robin in 1985 to 1997 and again from October 2005 to present. The character of Robin appeared on the General Hospital spin-off, Port Charles in 1998 and on the ABC daytime series, All My Children in 2001.
She is one of the few major characters in an American soap opera who debuted as a child and has aged in real time (see Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome for the normal fate of child characters in American soaps).
Robin Scorpio is HIV-positive. Along with ER's Jeanie Boulet, she is one of the only regular characters in American television history to contract the HIV virus without eventually being killed off by the writers.
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[edit] Brief character history
[edit] Introduction
This HIV-positive doctor has faced obstacles that would shatter any person. She was orphaned at 13, diagnosed with HIV and lost her first love, Stone Cates, to AIDS at 17, and lost her best friend, Brenda Barrett at 19 (though both her parents and Brenda would later turn out to be alive).
[edit] Early years
Robin Soltini came to Port Charles when she was just six years old with the woman she grew up thinking of as her grandmother Filomena Soltini and friend "Luv" (in reality it was her mother Anna). Robert Scorpio had no idea that he had fathered a child during the time he and Anna were married but it didn't take long for him to realize that Robin Soltini was really Robin Scorpio. Robert soon selected three of his closest friends -- Sean Donely, Frisco Jones and Dr. Buzz Stryker -- to serve as Robin's godfathers when he and his wife Holly left for Australia. Robert later returned to Port Charles to find both Robin and Anna in love with Scotsman Duke Lavery, who later became Robin's stepfather. During Duke and Anna's marriage, young Robin was traumatized when she saw her grandmother killed by a man who kidnapped her mother. She was also saddened by Anna's miscarriage of her half-sibling. Later, Robin saw her "Uncle Duke" apparently killed in a warehouse explosion while she, Anna and Duke were preparing to leave Port Charles for the Witness Protection Program (Robin experienced Duke's death again after he returned and was shot). Peculiar times ensued when Robin discovered Casey, a bona-fide alien from the planet Lumina, in her mother's garage, eventually leading to the introduction of Cesar Faison onto the GH canvas. When Anna and Robert were presumed dead after a boat explosion that occurred at the hands of Cesar Faison, Robert's brother Mac Scorpio became Robin's legal guardian. When Mac married Felicia Jones, this union gave Robin two step-cousins, Maxie and Georgie Jones.
[edit] Robin's teenage and college years
As a teenager, Robin became involved with Stone Cates but it didn't last long because Stone died from AIDS in 1995 (with Robin at his side) and it was discovered that Robin herself was HIV-positive. After Stone died, Robin started a relationship with Jason Morgan in 1996. Robin and Jason had an intense and beautiful relationship, but at times, became difficult due to his involvement with mobster Sonny Corinthos. In the summer of 1997, Robin was unable to come to terms with Jason's mob life-style after he got shot in her Uncle Mac's living room. Heartbroken, but having left with no choice, she left Port Charles to attend school in Paris. Jason became the head of the organization after Sonny left town the day of his wedding to his fiance Brenda Barrett, in order to protect her. In doing so, he left the business to Jason. Shortly after becoming the head of the organization, he got his first real test when he a target during a drive-by shooting outside of Luke's that left a young Nikolas Cassadine injured and unable to speak. He became alarmed and convinced someone would try to place a hit on Robin and decided to go Paris secretly to make sure she was safe. The two briefly reunited when Robin accidentally ran into Jason in the streets of Paris. They shared a few days but knew nothing had changed. They once again said their heartfelt goodbyes. In 1998, Robin returned to Port Charles to help her friend Brenda Barrett, who was suffering from a mental breakdown after being left at the altar by her fiance Sonny Corinthos. During this period, Robin became friends with Nikolas and the two bonded over their similar childhoods. Despite the burgeoning feelings that were developing between them, Robin was still in love with Jason and couldn't deny the love she still had for him. To this day Nikolas remains one of her closest friends. The two reunited, after she got word that he was involved in a plane crash over the water, that left him and her best friend, Brenda, alone in the woods for days. She reunited with her former flame Jason and moved in with him to help him raise Carly's infant son Michael. During the time they spent apart, Carly managed to convince Jason to lie about Michael's paternity (A.J. Quatermaine, Jason's brother, was in fact the father). Robin and Jason soon began to face a different kind of problem: Carly, who wanted Jason for herself. She managed to manipulate Jason enough to move in with Robin and Jason in Brenda's old cottage where the couple was living briefly. These months became know as "The Cottage Hell" by the fans of this pairing. In 1999 Robin and Jason ended their relationship and she left again for Paris. Before leaving, she freed herself from the emotional wreck and the physical toll the relationship had caused her and revealed the truth that Michael was not really Jason's son to A.J., something that Jason considered a betrayal. In 2001, Robin made an appearance on ABC's All My Children to reunite with her mother, Anna Devane, whom she had believed had died in the boat explosion in 1992. She returned to Paris where she completed medical school at La Sorbonne.
With Jason, they still have alot of love and hope there. Whenever something goes wrong, the doctor Jason goes to is her. They still deeply love eachother and might have a chance of getting back together in the future.
[edit] Dr. Robin Scorpio
In October 2005, Robin returned to Port Charles as a doctor to help treat her former love Jason. She met his current girlfriend, Sam McCall, as they were both involved in a train wreck. In helping him, Robin enlisted the help of neurosurgeon Noah Drake and his son Dr. Patrick Drake, who is also a neurosurgeon. Together, they were able to save Jason, and Robin made the decision to stay in Port Charles, saying that she enjoyed being around her family again.
Before long though, in February 2006, another crisis erupted in Port Charles when a virus outbreak hit General Hospital, threatening Robin and her already-weakened immune system. Patrick Drake made the difficult (and potentially unethical) decision to save her life. She also found out that her father, Robert Scorpio, was alive, when she found him snooping around General Hospital during this time, claiming to be with an agency called "MRA"(Medical Rescue Agency) who were trying to contain/stop the virus.
Later on, from her step-cousin Maxie Jones she learned the true paternity of John Jacks, whom everyone believed was the son of Courtney Matthews and her ex-husband Jasper Jacks, but Nikolas Cassadine was actually the father. At first Robin struggled with whether or not to tell Nikolas the truth as keeping John's paternity a secret protected him from the control of his evil grandmother Helena Cassadine and losing Jax's friendship. Eventually however the close friendship she developed with Nikolas outweighed the possibility of the threat of Helena and she told him the truth. Nikolas was grateful to Robin for giving him his son. Jax wasn't mad at Robin because he didn't want the baby's life to be a lie, but Robin's arch enemy Carly Corinthos was furious.
For most of 2006, Robin has had to deal with not only her complicated relationship with Patrick but trying to mend the relationship between herself and her parents. She is also trying to help Luke Spencer get his wife and the great love of his life, Laura Spencer on an experimental drug to help cure her. Robin's exploits worked and Laura recovered, temporarily from her catatonic state in October. However the following month Laura slipped back into her catatonia state. As a result Robin has vowed not to let her patients get up their hopes and has developed an uncharacteristically brutal bedside manner because of this.
In February 2007, Robin was shot in the stomach during a hostage situation at the Metro Court Hotel. Emily Quartermaine, with the assistance of Carly Corinthos and Patrick (via telephone), saved Robin's life. At the culmination of the hostage crisis, Robin's friend, Nikolas, carried Robin out of the Metro Court to safety. She underwent a real surgery to remove the bullet in her abdomen.
On March 2, 2007, Robin was released from the hospital and was brought home to her Uncle Mac's house to recuperate.
On March 15, 2007, she attempted to get her life back to normal and go to work. But she was told to leave by Dr. Russell Ford, despite both Patrick's and Monica's words of assurance that she would be able to handle being back at work so soon after her surgery. She gave in and left the hospital.
Later, she was sitting on the pier, thinking, when Patrick showed up. He said that he was looking for her and she replied that she had run out of private thinking spots. Patrick said that he tried the park first and had hoped that she had gone there instead of the pier where there were many stairs.
Robin and Patrick made up and discussed "therapy" options. In the end, Patrick carried her home.
[edit] Friendships
One of the most tender relationships that Robin has ever had was with Sonny Corinthos. He met her when she moved to Port Charles in 1995. That was around the time that Robin fell in love with Stone Cates. Stone and Sonny were really close also and when Stone got sick, Robin and Sonny cared for him themselves. And when Stone died, they were both devestated. They were both exhausted after Stone's death but they were able to comfort each other.
When Lily Rivera died, Robin was the first one by Sonny's side. She never said she understood how she felt, she was just there for him. She did understand a lot about Sonny's pain though. One of the most tender moments that the two shared was not long after Lily's death when Robin found Sonny crying in a stairwell. Neither of them said a word as they embraced tightly.
To this day, when nobody could reach Sonny, Robin was always able to step in and teach him something about love. It seems that Robin has always been the main source of Sonny's love.
[edit] The demise of "Scrubs"?
On March 26, 2007 Robin and Patrick argued over her decision to not move back into their apartment with him. She then went over to Wyndemere to see Nikolas and ask if she could stay with him. Nikolas wasn't home at the time, and as she rifled through his desk to find a paper to leave a note, she was stopped by Mr. Craig, the head gunman from the Metro Court hostage crisis, and found out he was blackmailing Nikolas for a new identity. When Nikolas returned home, he found Robin tending to Craig's wound and found out that Craig had decided Robin might be useful in his blackmail plot. Craig instructed Robin to go about her normal life and not to draw attention to herself. Also, she couldn't tell anybody—especially Patrick—and he made numerous threats against Patrick to keep her in line. Robin went about his instructions and got into a fight with Patrick. On March 29, 2007, Patrick went over to Wyndemere and demanded that Nikolas tell him what was going on. Nikolas hesitated and Robin walked in. She could see Craig out of the corner of her eye, holding a gun. She feared for Patrick's safety, so she lied to him and told him they were through. Later, Craig decided that a good cover story for Robin living at Wyndemere would be to have Robin and Nikolas play out a very public love affair. They agreed, fearing for their loved one's lives. At the end of the day, Alexis walked into Wyndemere, stopping dead in her tracks when she saw Robin and Nikolas in a very delicate position on the couch. The two brushed it off as though it was nothing, but Alexis was clearly very suspicious.
Robin and Patrick soon got back together.
After a few months of being together, Robin wanted different things from life than Patrick. She wanted a husband and kids, while he wanted to be a world famous surgeon. Robin left Patrick. Robin became friends with ex-love Jason again and he is helping her with her break up with Patrick. On November 30, 2007, Patrick told Robin that he still loved her and that he missed her.
[edit] Pregnancy
Robin wants to be a mother and had decided to be a single mom. She and her friend, Dr. Kelly Lee put a list of possible sperm donors together. Robin had picked people in Port Charles, because she felt that they had redeeming qualities she would like to pass on to her child, and did not like the idea of her child's father being a stranger.
Robin was devastated by Georgie's death in December 2007. After Georgie's funeral and Maxie's horrible outburst at Felicia, she sought comfort in Patrick's arms and told him that it wasn't about getting back together, or a baby or even sex, but that she just wanted him to hold her. They ended up making love. That night a condom broke and Robin became pregnant although she is unaware of this until 4 weeks later. Dr. Kelly Lee tells Robin that the date of conception would have to be sometime around Christmas which was around when Robin and Patrick had had sex. Robin, worried that Patrick had HIV, was about to tell him but when she walks into the locker room she heard Dr. Julian tell Patrick that the HIV test he gave him (because he realized that the condom they used broke when he and Robin had sex) had come back negative. With the news that Patrick wasn't infected, Robin made up her mind not to tell Patrick about the pregnancy just yet.
Robin blurted out that she was pregnant to Patrick, but, she left out the fact the he was the father. She told him that she went to a sperm bank and she does not know who her baby's father is. Robin had only told one person who her baby's father is, her friend and co-worker, Elizabeth Webber. Elizabeth advised Robin to tell the truth. On Valentine's Day, both her and Carly were watching babies in the hospital nursery where they learned the other was pregnant. Patrick gave Robin flowers and told her she was going to be a great mother. On February 29th Patrick watched Robin take care of a baby whose mother just died. After, they had a heart to heart in which when Patrick asks about the paternity of the baby, and Robin admits he is the father.
Their child is due on October 21st.
[edit] General Hospital: Night Shift
She developed a friendship with HIV expectant mother Stacey Sloan (who is now deceased). Since Stacey's daughter had no home, Robin petitioned to adopt her and also named her Anna. But Anna's father, Curtis, came back into the picture and the baby was turned over to him leaving Robin devastated.
