Robin Scorpio

Robin Scorpio 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).

Introduction
This HIV-positive doctor has faced obstacles that would shatter any person. She was orphaned at 12, 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).

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 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.

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 Mac Scorpio Living room. Heartbroken, but having left with no choice, she left Port Charles to attend school in Paris. During their break, Jason became the head of the organization after Sonny Corinthos left town the day of his wedding to his fiance Brenda Barrett in order to protect her and in doing so, 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 in the alter by her fiance Sonny Corinthos. During this period, Robin became friends with Nikolas Cassadine 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 Jason. 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 Barrett left alone in the woods for days. She reunited with her former flame Jason and moved in with him to help him raise his infant son Michael. Robin left again in 1999 after revealing that Michael was not really Jason's son, but was in fact his brother A.J.'s - a betrayal that Jason was unable to forgive. 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. She returned to Paris where she completed medical school at La Sorbonne.

Dr. Robin Scorpio
In October of 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 (during the November sweeps.) In helping him, Robin enlisted the help of neurosurgeon Noah Drake (played by Rick Springfield) and his son Patrick Drake (portrayed by Jason Thompson), who is also a neurosurgeon. Together, they were able to save Jason, and Robin made the decision to stay in Port Charles, citing that she enjoyed being around her family, particularly her uncle Mac and his two daughters Maxie and Georgie, again. Before long though, early into the year of 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 "Jax" 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 Drake 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 mid-October. However the following month Laura slipped back into her catatonia. As a result Robin has vowed not to let her patients get up their hopes and has developed an uncharacteristicly 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 Drake (via telephone), saved Robin's life. At the culmination of the hostage crisis, Robin's friend, Nikolas Cassadine, 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, she 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.

"Scrubs" tested?
On March 26, 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 MetroCourt 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, 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.

They 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.

Robin wants to be a mother and has decided to be a single mom. She and her friend, Dr.Kelly Lee are putting a list of possible sperm donors together.

General Hospital: Night Shift
She developed a friendship with HIV expectant mother Stacey Sloan (who is now deceased). Since Stacey's daughter has no home, Robin is petitioning to adopt her and also name her Anna. But now that Anna's father Curtis has come back into the picture it's going to make things more difficult than easy.

Parents

 * Robert Scorpio (father)
 * Anna Devane (mother)
 * Holly Scorpio (step-mother)

Sibling(s)

 * Leora Hayward (maternal half-sister; deceased)

Marital status

 * Single

Grandparents

 * Thomas John Devane (maternal grandfather; deceased)

Aunts and Uncles

 * Malcolm "Mac" Scorpio (paternal uncle)
 * Alexandra Devane Marick (maternal aunt)
 * Lindsay Devane (maternal aunt; deceased)
 * Gabriel Devane (maternal half-uncle)
 * Charlotte Devane (maternal great aunt)

Cousins

 * Aidan Devane (maternal first cousin)
 * Maria Maximiliana "Maxie" Jones (paternal step-cousin)
 * Georgie Jones (paternal step-cousin)

Romantic Entanglements

 * Rowdy (childhood friend/crush) (1989)
 * Michael "Stone" Cates (lovers; deceased) (1993-1995)
 * Jason Morgan (lovers) (1996-1997; 1997-1999)
 * Patrick Drake (lovers) (2006-2007)
 * Nikolas Cassadine (kissed) (March 2007)

Enemies

 * Carly Corinthos (she blames her for running her son's life; and her break up with Jason)
 * Leyla Mir

Friends

 * Brenda Barrett
 * Sonny Corinthos
 * Jason Morgan
 * Emily Quartermaine
 * Laura Spencer
 * Luke Spencer
 * Lucky Spencer
 * Alan Quartermaine
 * Monica Quartermaine
 * Patrick Drake
 * Mike Corbin
 * Kelly Lee
 * Elizabeth Webber
 * Lainey Winters
 * Stacey Sloan (deceased)