Carmen Robinson
| Dr Carmen Robinson | |
|---|---|
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| Member of the Council of Kerlile | |
| In office 18 April 2016 – 23 May 2022 | |
| President | Joanna Greenwood, Rebecca Arnott |
| Preceded by | Sarah Robinson |
| Succeeded by | position abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Carmen Alicia Robinson June 1, 1984 Grapevale, Kerlile |
| Nationality | Kerlian |
| Political party | Reform Party |
| Children | Natasha Robinson, Imogen Robinson |
| Mother | Sarah Robinson |
| Education | PhD Physics |
| Alma mater | Maytown University |
| Occupation | Researcher |
Dr Carmen Alicia Robinson (born 1st June 1984) is a former Councillor of Kerlile, and the final Robinson family representative on the Council of Kerlile before her family was removed from the Council. She is known for supporting reformist policies. Her family has had a longstanding feud with the Pierre family following the murder of Carmen's grandmother.
In June 2019, she was held under house arrest at the order of the rest of the Council for suspected treason and later transferred to prison. Following the election of President Rebecca Arnott she was released and is now known for being the author of the Prison Reform Act (2019). In 2021 she was arrested once more and convicted of treason, being exiled from Kerlile and moving to Zongongia. In 2023, she left Zongongia after her daughter Natasha Robinson became pregnant, settling then in Eiria where she now works as a researcher at North Geminus Provincial Polytechnic University.
Early life & education[edit | edit source]
Carmen Robinson was born four weeks early to Councillor Sarah Robinson, whose own mother had been killed while she was pregnant following the 1983 coup attempt, in the Kerlian capital of Buttercity. Her mother had severe post-natal depression, and the young Carmen was raised primarily by staff.
She was educated by private tutors with other relatives of Councillors in the city of Maytown in southern Kerlile, as is tradition, however she remained there year-round rather than returning to her mother in the summers, unlike other Daughters of the Council.
She attended the University of Hazelton in western Kerlile, studying Physics. She remained there for ten years, completing her PhD. She remained at the university doing research until her mother’s premature death in 2016 at the age of 56, when she inherited her seat on the Council.
On the Council[edit | edit source]
Robinson publicly blamed Councillor Pauline Pierre for the death of her mother, claiming that Councillor Pierre had repeatedly taunted Sarah about the death of Carmen’s grandmother, Joanne Robinson, who died in mysterious circumstances following a bid to oust Susanna Pierre from the presidency in 1983. This was a tumultuous start to Robinson’s time on the Council.
During her first year on the Council, Robinson fought for reform, introducing bills which would ban the use of torture as a punishment and allow emigration. All these attempts failed. She campaigned for a brief period in support of men’s rights, however after several months all evidence of this had vanished from official Kerlian news sources.
In her second year, she became more conservative, and appeared to have started supporting the standard policies of the Matriarchy. However, when the Second Lauchenoirian Civil War broke out, she urged caution, trying to convince the Council to obey international law in the treatment of prisoners.
Treason allegations[edit | edit source]
Aurora leaks[edit | edit source]
During the peace talks in Haven, Sanctaria, which culminated in the Haven Accords, the contents of a USB stick which came into the possession of Laura Moore’s Lauchenoirian Resistance revealed the existence of the ‘Aurora Programme’ – allegedly a training programme for Kerlian sleeper agents. The documents contained indicated that they had been collated by Councillor Robinson.
Shortly after the reveal of these documents, Councillor Robinson went into hiding, and was not seen again until April 2019, when she walked into the Council chamber. She was immediately accused of treason for leaking the documents, and placed under house arrest.
She later spent several weeks in prison where she was subjected to torture before being released and returning to her seat on the Council.
Double agent recruitment[edit | edit source]
Robinson was re-arrested in 2021, and later exiled from Kerlile after spending eleven months in the Restricted Region. This came after allegations that Robinson had been recruiting members of the Aurora Programme as double-agents loyal to her family, and that she and her mother Sarah Robinson had assisted Democratic Kerlian State (DKS) during the Kerlian Civil War using said double-agents. After her exile, she lived in Zongongia with her two daughters, who fled Kerlile prior to their mother's arrest. However, after her daughter Natasha became pregnant by Prince Kristofer of Zongongia, the family also had to leave that country, settling then in Eiria.
Personal life[edit | edit source]
Carmen Robinson has a love of science, and has continued her physics research part-time even while fulfilling her role as a Councillor. She has written several papers on quantum information, and once collaborated on a paper with a Lauchenoirian scientist, which caused much controversy in both nations.
She has two daughters, Natasha (born 2005) and Imogen (born 2012). The identity of the father or fathers remains unknown.