Robin and Zelena (Birth)

## Robin and Zelena

The mother and daughter relationship between Robin Hood and Zelena Mills.

## History

Continuing to pose as Marian, Zelena comes home to find Regina revealing the truth about her to Robin Hood. When Regina threatens her, she feigns ignorance and looks to her husband for protection. After Robin Hood manages to make Regina stop, Zelena grins wickedly before pulling out the six-leaf clover and reverting to her true self. With the truth out in the open, Regina urges Robin Hood to get Roland and leave with her, but he declines. Zelena smugly states that he'll want to stay, to which Regina presses him for an answer. After a moment, Robin Hood admits Zelena is pregnant. *("Lily")*

Taken back to Storybrooke, Zelena is imprisoned by Regina in a cell in the hospital's psychiatric ward, where she taunts her sister about being unable to kill her without making her child motherless. After obtaining magic ink from Lily, Regina brings the Author, Isaac, to the cell so he can rewrite Zelena out of existence. Learning what will happen to her, Zelena compares Regina to the same level of cruelty that Cora once showed her. As Regina takes in her words, Robin Hood walks in. Backtracking against her plan to hurt Zelena, Regina considers how they are each their own worst enemy, before deciding she will move forward with Robin even if her sister remains in the picture. *("Mother")*

After Isaac rewrites new lives for everyone, he sends Zelena and every former Enchanted Forest native to an alternate reality inside his book, *Heroes and Villains*. *("Operation Mongoose Part 1")*

Seeing her unborn child as her only chance at unconditional love, Zelena eventually escapes her cell to take Robin Hood hostage. To save him, Regina forfeits the Apprentice's wand to her, giving Zelena the power to harness it and open a portal to Oz. Zelena's hopes rest on going back to Oz and building a life with her child, however, the wand drains her energy, leaving her vulnerable to Regina, who disables her magic with the cuff. After Regina changes the portal's destination to the Enchanted Forest to track down Emma, a still pregnant Zelena is taken along for the trip. While in Camelot, Regina vows to love and care for Zelena's child once it's born, but she makes no such promises for Zelena herself. *("The Dark Swan", "Siege Perilous")*

Sometime after coming back to Storybrooke, Emma tempts Zelena into indulging in onion rings, which she secretly enchants to speed up Zelena's pregnancy. In a plan to remove both her and Hook's darknesses, Emma wants to put all of it in Zelena and then kill her once the child is born, as she doesn't wish to hurt an innocent life. When Zelena gives birth to a baby girl, Robin cradles his new daughter, while Regina tries to be supportive, despite Zelena sniping at her that her sister can never give Robin a child as she has. Through research, Belle comes to believe Emma needs the baby for a spell to extinguish all light magic, but instead, Emma proves them wrong by taking Zelena instead. After getting Hook's help to escape Emma's grasp, Zelena storms the hospital to retrieve her daughter, only to find she is gone. Having come to a prior agreement with Robin about Zelena's maternal rights, Regina leads her sister to the loft, where the baby is. Despite knowing what Zelena is capable of, she holds out hope that Zelena can change out of love for her own child. Robin agrees to let Zelena have visitation rights, and he then lets her hold their daughter. However, Zelena finds a loophole in the new arrangement when she learns Regina and Robin's souls are bound for the Underworld, and she decides to grant herself sole custody of her little girl once the two of them are gone. Not wanting Robin to lose his daughter, Regina banishes Zelena to Oz. When Robin and Regina head to the Underworld, the baby is left in the nuns' care. *("The Bear and the Bow", "Birth", "Broken Heart", "Swan Song")*

In the convent's nursery room, Baby Hood and baby Neal are kept together in individual cribs. After returning to Storybrooke from Oz, Zelena disguises herself as Mother Superior and enters the babies' room, where Belle is visiting the children. Belle senses something is off with the head nun, and Zelena assures her everything is fine, but her cover is blown once the real Mother Superior arrives. Reverting to herself, Zelena tries to take away her daughter, while Belle attempts to stop her. From the Underworld, Hades makes Mr. Gold open a portal to Storybrooke, intending to get Zelena's child. Back in Storybrooke, Mother Superior prepares to stop Zelena with magic, but before she can, an earthquake gives way to a portal. Belle grabs the baby and falls into the portal, with Zelena diving in to follow them, and all three land in the Underworld. Not trusting Zelena with the baby, Belle flees to the library, where she reunites with Mr. Gold. Zelena joins Regina and Robin in looking for Belle, who they later run into. When Baby Hood gets fussy, Zelena suggests that she can feed her with the formula bottle. Robin relents, only because Zelena's magic isn't working, but when Zelena regains her powers, she douses the trio with a blast before running off with her daughter. However, after realizing her magic injured her child, she forfeits her to Robin, knowing she can't protect their child from Hades. On return to the apartment, Regina plays with the baby, fondly noting that her eyes resemble Robin's. For the time being, Robin decides to not name his daughter, in fear Hades will have power over her because of it. He also makes plans to take her to the forest to hide her from Hades. Later, Hades reveals to Zelena that he never wanted her child for a time spell, and he only wanted to get the child away from the heroes for her sake. Robin later goes to the forest with his daughter to hide her from Hades. *("Our Decay", "Her Handsome Hero")*

With his daughter, Robin enters the Underbrooke library, finding Regina with not only her allies but also Zelena and Hades. He is alarmed by this, but Regina insists the two can be trusted. As everyone waits on Emma and Hook to finish finding ambrosia, the portal to return home has finally opened, so Regina suggests Zelena, the baby, and Hades wait by the portal first. She asks Robin to give the baby to Zelena, and although he still mistrusts her sister, he agrees to trust Regina's judgment. After regaining her child, Zelena hugs Regina and thanks her, before leaving with Hades to wait at the portal. When Regina and her friends fail to show up later, Hades persuades Zelena to trust that the heroes can make it in time, without her knowing he is purposely holding them back. Zelena relents, but eventually uses the portal with her baby. Then, Hades follows them. *("Firebird")*

Zelena, Hades, and the baby reach Storybrooke safely, but Hades refuses to go back into town since Snow White is present and is unaware that he supposedly changed. Zelena leaves her baby with Hades, telling him to take the child to the mayor's office, as she heads off to assure Snow that he is a good person now. After killing King Arthur, Hades goes to the office, where the baby remains in her cradle as Regina and Robin attempt to break in to take her away. However, Hades catches the pair and uses his Olympian Crystal to kill Robin. After Zelena uses the crystal to kill Hades, she takes the child to her father's funeral, where Regina laments that he never got to name his own child. Zelena notes that only one name, Robin, seems appropriate, and Regina agrees with the suggestion. *("Last Rites")*

That night, at the diner during Robin's wake, Zelena holds her daughter as she keeps Regina company. The next day, Granny is taking care of baby Robin as Zelena opens a portal to allow Merida, the Merry Men and the Camelot natives to return home. Zelena promises Roland that she will visit him soon, and will bring his baby sister, Robin, along too. Granny brings Robin towards Roland, who says goodbye by kissing the baby on her forehead. When Zelena has trouble closing the portal, Granny moves further back to keep the baby safe. In the next instant, Zelena, Snow, David and Hook are sucked into the portal and taken to another land. *("Only You")*

After Zelena escapes the other land and returns to Storybrooke, Regina invites her and baby Robin to move in with her. Zelena is busy caring for her child while unpacking her belongings when Regina comes home. When Regina tells her about their present crisis now that Hyde is in town, Zelena places baby Robin in her crib, lovingly telling her daughter to have a nap while she helps defeat Hyde. After having a big fight with Regina, Zelena takes baby Robin with her when she moves back into the farmhouse, where she finds the Evil Queen waiting for her inside. *("The Savior")*

During one night, Zelena gets up to check on baby Robin, after hearing her crying. She finds her daughter missing from her crib, but upon stepping further into the room, she sees the Queen cradling and calming the baby with a rattle. The Queen talks to baby Robin, noting that she likes the rattle, an item that Cora once soothed her with when she herself was an infant. When Zelena questions her about the rattle, the Queen gives it to her as a gift and then sets down Robin in her crib. *("A Bitter Draught")*

Fearing the Evil Queen may have gotten to Zelena, Regina grills her sister about whether the Queen came to her or not. Zelena shushes her and tells her to be quiet or she'll wake up Robin, who is sleeping. As Robin gurgles quietly in her bed, Regina sees a familiar looking rattle in the baby's crib and realizes the Queen did come to Zelena. *("The Other Shoe")*

After holding Archie hostage on the Queen's orders, Zelena eventually unbinds him to let him tend to baby Robin, and she instructs him to keep her daughter happy by bouncing her and making funny faces at her. The Queen persuades Zelena to leave with her for a girls' day out, and she threatens to kill Archie if he doesn't take good care of the baby while they are gone. As an extra measure to ensure Archie stays where he is, Zelena enacts a barrier spell on the house. During a day at the spa, the Queen encourages Zelena to once again embrace her wicked side, and this time, to allow her daughter a chance to learn to accept the real her. Upon returning home, she goes through with this plan by transforming Archie into a cricket in front of baby Robin. *("Street Rats")*

As Regina keeps the Queen and Zelena distracted outside, Snow and David sneak into Zelena's house to free cricket Archie as baby Robin is in her crib. After Archie flies away, Robin begins to cry, alerting Zelena to the intruders. Snow protests that they weren't going to hurt the baby, though Zelena still takes Robin out of her crib and looks to the Queen for protection. *("Dark Waters")*

At home, Zelena sits at the table, where she is feeding her daughter with a bottle when the Queen returns. *("Heartless")*

While Robin is being held by her mother, the Queen comes to visit with ominous news for Zelena. She mentions that it relates to Mr. Gold, and then suggests putting the baby down. Realizing the Queen means to kill her, Zelena sets down her daughter in the crib and tells her that she loves her, before turning to face her sister. *("Changelings")*

## Trivia

* Though Zelena saw her daughter as a pawn in her page to ruin Regina's life and the only person who could ever love her, she and Robin have a strong and close mother-daughter relationship, as well as Regina, who spoils Robin as if she were her own daughter as well.