Destiny Evans
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Destiny Loretta Evans is a fictional character
on the ABC
soap opera
One Life to Live
. The role was portrayed by Shenell Edmonds. Edmonds was put on contract in May 2010 with her first contract episodes airing the week of June 9.
. Because both of them were not socially accepted by the student body, the two became fast friends. Destiny develops a crush on Matthew who was seemingly interested in Becca, the popular yet cruel girl. Matthew finds himself as the target of both Becca and boyfriend Justin's jokes. The jokes take their toll, at a school dance when Matthew is publicly humiliated due to a dare. Matthew runs out of the dance and into a car driven by a high Cole
. The car crashes and as a result Matthew becomes paralyzed. from that point Destiny continuously stayed by Matthews side, while he remained clueless of Destiny’s feelings. After the accident Destiny begins to visit her brother Shaun
with hope that he will give her information on their estranged doctor brother Greg, a well known surgeon whom Destiny believes can help Matthew walk again, however due to his resentment towards his brother Shaun remained unswayed. In June 2009, Greg Evans
made his first appearance in Llanview, with the help of Clint Buchanan
and assured everyone that Matthew would walk again. As the pros and cons of the surgery were presented, Bo and Nora became unsure and refused the surgery completely. At that point, Destiny presented Matthew with an opportunity to freely have his surgery by sending his parents to court with the help of Tea Delgado
. During the trial, Shaun is shot while serving the Cramer family, and later slips into a coma after his surgery to remove the bullet fragment. A heartbroken Destiny finds comfort through Matthew. When Matthew wins the right to have his surgery, both he and Destiny are shocked at Greg’s refusal to take him under the knife. Therefore Matthew finds another surgeon to operate on him, the operation would require him to travel to Seattle for it to be done. Shocked and scared by how fast he found a surgeon, Bo
and Nora
trick Matthew into coming with them to England where he was enrolled in a boarding school. As Shaun began to awake from his coma, Destiny makes several attempts at contacting Matthew but to no avail.
With the help of David Vickers both him and Destiny was able to piece together Matthews whereabouts, and thus traveled to England where they discovered Bo, Nora, and later Matthew as well as Tea Delgado's estranged daughter Danielle Rayburn
. After informing Matthew of Shaun's awaking, Matthew and Dani leave for Seattle were Matthew has his surgery. Not long after the surgery, Destiny visits Matthew where they stumbles upon Dani who has just escaped social services. Dani then attempts to hide herself under Matthews bed, but the plan becomes a bust when Destiny gives away her hiding spot. Dani and Destiny then immediately become the center of a hostage situation, held at gun point by Dani's father Ross Rayburn
. After being freed Destiny is then taken back forcibly by her parents. After Matthew's return, Destiny attempts to tell Matthew how she feels about him, only for the night to end with her and Dani having an altercation over what occurred in Seattle. It is not until New Year's Eve that Destiny reveals her true feeling to Matthew only to have him reject her. On New Years Day, Matthew kisses Dani. Later on Dani and Destiny become friends, however a rivalry recreated itself in the form of a school play in which both Dani and Destiny competed for the roll of Starr
. As the auditions came to an end, Destiny found herself casted as character Langston
, her hatred for the roll is fueled when she catches Langston and Ford
sharing a kiss. Destiny shares what she had just seen with Matthew. As the two are thinking as to whether or not to tell Markko
, his video camera records their conversation. As the play proceeded Destiny caught the eye of the energetic stagehand Darren. After taking Destiny to the prom Darren and Destiny soon begun dating however the relationship is proven to be unsucessful.
into falsely diagnosing Tea Delgado
with cancer. Greg later reveals that the secret Eli had on him was that he was secretly Destiny’s father, and his parents are her grandparents. To Destiny's horror, he also reveals that he kill Destiny’s real mother Charlene, who was Shaun's girlfriend, Shaun never knew as he was in prison when she was conceived. On the day of Greg's trial it is revealed to Destiny that Greg himself is responsible for the death and disposing of her mother Charlene. After Greg reveals the truth of her mother's demise, Destiny goes to Tea and asks her to be her lawyer so that she may divorce her parents. Destiny shuts out her parents and goes to live with Shaun, which sparks some concern with Darren. Destiny begins confiding in Matthew, who has once found himself in a similar situation. Seeing how the two support each other, doesn't go over too well with Darren. In an attempt to help Destiny move on from the issue she faces, he arranges a meeting with her grandfather. The meeting which failed miserably ended on the fact that perhaps it was too soon to come to any agreements. Destiny gave Darren an earful for his part in arranging the meeting. After everything that has happened Darren begins realizing that the person Destiny has become is not the person he wants in his life, the two break up. On January 24, 2011, Destiny and Matthew kissed for the first time following a series of events in which both felt betrayed by their families.
In Angle square, Dani comes across Matthew and Destiny sharing a kiss, and confronts her on it. Destiny revels to Dani under the influence of stress, her and Matthew had sex. the reason as to the cause of the stress becomes apparent two encounter Blanca Morales and revels to Dani that the killer is Matthew. Destiny tries to deny Morales's clam to Dani who is already wise. Nate
overhears Destiny admit to Danielle that it was really Matthew had killed Eddie, and is enraged, not that his father Eddie is dead, but that Matthew had kept quiet while first Nate and then Inez were charged with the murder. Nate goes to Bo's garret and punches Matthew, causing Matthew to fall and hit his head. Nate tells Matthew to confess, or he'll turn him in. Destiny goes to Matthew and gives him the news that Clint had confessed. destiny unknown of what transpired between Matthew and Nate before she arrived gives him a pain reliever for his headache and leaves again. later that night Destiny receives a call from Matthews parents informing her of Matthew's incident. Destiny learns that Matthew collapsed and was taken in to surgery, and is brought to tears when seeing him unconscious. Dani later arrives to offer her comfort to Destiny, as does a silently guilt ridden Nate. After over hearing the doctors discussing Matthew among themselves, Destiny learns that Matthew is nearly brain dead. Nate and Dani finds the completely heartbroken Destiny and learns of what has become of Matthew. Nate, who is unable to miss work, apologizes to Destiny who is unaware for the true nature (his causing Matthew's accident) of the apology. Destiny and Dani overhear the doctors tell Bo and Nora that the chances of Matthew recovering is very minimal. while at the hospital, Starr arrives to see Matthew and overhears Destiny talking about how he cannot die after what happened between him and her in his bed. After realizing Starr was there, she and Starr left, but before they were about to leave Destiny goes to the bathroom to throw up. when she came out of the bathroom she thinks she threw up because of the cafeteria food in the hospital or from stress. But Starr realizes that she overheard Destiny about having sex with Matthew and asks if they used protection. Destiny says yes that they used protection and denies about being pregnant. When Starr left Destiny starts to fear she might be pregnant with Matthews baby. However as time passes Destiny continues to fear and talk to an sleeping Matthew about them possibly being pregnant even though she told Star she wasn't. Destiny finally takes a pregnancy test which confirms that she is pregnant with Matthew's child, however she continues to deny to everyone especially Starr and Dani that she is. The only people she tells is Matthew who is incoherent. On July 18, Destiny finds out that Nate had a one night stand with Deanna.On August 9, Destiny gets permission to have an abortion from Phylicia. On August 10, 2011, when Destiny goes to see Matthew, Nora overhears her saying, "I'm not going to have our baby." Nora begs her not to have an abortion, and to let her and Bo raise it if Destiny cannot. When David and Bo walk in, Destiny runs out of the room. However, David thinks that it had something to do with the movie that made her leave, so he runs after her. Bo learns from Nora that Destiny is pregnant with Matthew's child. On August 12th Destiny changes her mind for an abortion which leaves her mother suspicious leaving Destiny to be a single parent.
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on the ABC
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soap opera
Soap opera
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One Life to Live
One Life to Live
One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...
. The role was portrayed by Shenell Edmonds. Edmonds was put on contract in May 2010 with her first contract episodes airing the week of June 9.
Arrival and friendship with Matthew
Destiny Evans makes her first appearance as the classmate of Matthew BuchananMatthew Buchanan
Matthew Buchanan is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live.-Casting:The role was portrayed by child actors Steven and Nicholas Towler from 1999 to June 2000 and Ian Chandler Sheaffer from July 2000 to May 2001...
. Because both of them were not socially accepted by the student body, the two became fast friends. Destiny develops a crush on Matthew who was seemingly interested in Becca, the popular yet cruel girl. Matthew finds himself as the target of both Becca and boyfriend Justin's jokes. The jokes take their toll, at a school dance when Matthew is publicly humiliated due to a dare. Matthew runs out of the dance and into a car driven by a high Cole
Cole Thornhart
Cole Patrick Thornhart is a fictional character on ABC's daytime drama One Life to Live. He was played by Brandon Buddy from October 10, 2006 to November 10, 2010. He is also the nephew of Ian Thornhart, Patrick's identical twin brother from the now-defunct series Port Charles...
. The car crashes and as a result Matthew becomes paralyzed. from that point Destiny continuously stayed by Matthews side, while he remained clueless of Destiny’s feelings. After the accident Destiny begins to visit her brother Shaun
Shaun Evans (One Life to Live)
Shaun Evans is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. Initially a recurring character, the role was originated by Sean Ringgold in 2006...
with hope that he will give her information on their estranged doctor brother Greg, a well known surgeon whom Destiny believes can help Matthew walk again, however due to his resentment towards his brother Shaun remained unswayed. In June 2009, Greg Evans
Greg Evans (One Life to Live)
Gregory "Greg" Evans is a fictional character from the ABC original soap opera One Life to Live. The role was played by Terrell Tilford from June 23, 2009 to November 17, 2010. -Storylines:...
made his first appearance in Llanview, with the help of Clint Buchanan
Clint Buchanan
Clinton "Clint" Buchanan is a fictional character on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live.-Casting:The role was originated in September 10, 1979 by actor Clint Ritchie, portraying the role nearly continuously through December 30, 1999. Ritchie reappeared in the 2003 and 2004. Actor Jerry...
and assured everyone that Matthew would walk again. As the pros and cons of the surgery were presented, Bo and Nora became unsure and refused the surgery completely. At that point, Destiny presented Matthew with an opportunity to freely have his surgery by sending his parents to court with the help of Tea Delgado
Téa Delgado
Téa Delgado is a fictional character from the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live. The role was portrayed by Florencia Lozano from January 27, 1997 to March 2, 2000 and briefly in 2002; Lozano returned to the role once again on December 5, 2008.A stern but passionate personality, the character has...
. During the trial, Shaun is shot while serving the Cramer family, and later slips into a coma after his surgery to remove the bullet fragment. A heartbroken Destiny finds comfort through Matthew. When Matthew wins the right to have his surgery, both he and Destiny are shocked at Greg’s refusal to take him under the knife. Therefore Matthew finds another surgeon to operate on him, the operation would require him to travel to Seattle for it to be done. Shocked and scared by how fast he found a surgeon, Bo
Bo Buchanan
Beaufort Oglethorpe "Bo" Buchanan is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live.-Casting and awards:The role was originated in 1979 by Robert S. Woods, who briefly left the series in 1986 but returned in 1988, and currently portrays the role...
and Nora
Nora Hanen
Nora Hanen Buchanan is a fictional character on the long-running American soap opera One Life to Live. The role was originated by Hillary B. Smith in September 1992.-Casting:...
trick Matthew into coming with them to England where he was enrolled in a boarding school. As Shaun began to awake from his coma, Destiny makes several attempts at contacting Matthew but to no avail.
With the help of David Vickers both him and Destiny was able to piece together Matthews whereabouts, and thus traveled to England where they discovered Bo, Nora, and later Matthew as well as Tea Delgado's estranged daughter Danielle Rayburn
Danielle Rayburn
Danielle "Dani" Manning is a fictional character from ABC soap opera One Life to Live. Created by writer Ron Carlivati, the role was originated in 2009 by actress Kelley Missal. The character was conceived as part of her mother Téa Delgado's absence on the series from 2002 through 2008...
. After informing Matthew of Shaun's awaking, Matthew and Dani leave for Seattle were Matthew has his surgery. Not long after the surgery, Destiny visits Matthew where they stumbles upon Dani who has just escaped social services. Dani then attempts to hide herself under Matthews bed, but the plan becomes a bust when Destiny gives away her hiding spot. Dani and Destiny then immediately become the center of a hostage situation, held at gun point by Dani's father Ross Rayburn
Ross Rayburn
Ross Rayburn is a fictional character from the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. The role was originated by Shawn Christian in 2002. Michael Lowry portrayed the role from August 28, 2009 to December 14, 2009, from January 8 to 13, 2010 and on April 29, 2010...
. After being freed Destiny is then taken back forcibly by her parents. After Matthew's return, Destiny attempts to tell Matthew how she feels about him, only for the night to end with her and Dani having an altercation over what occurred in Seattle. It is not until New Year's Eve that Destiny reveals her true feeling to Matthew only to have him reject her. On New Years Day, Matthew kisses Dani. Later on Dani and Destiny become friends, however a rivalry recreated itself in the form of a school play in which both Dani and Destiny competed for the roll of Starr
Starr Manning
Starr Irene Manning is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. Portrayed by Kristen Alderson since 1998, Starr is the oldest child of Todd Manning and Blair Cramer, and was originally known for her mischievous behavior, exacerbated by her parents' volatile...
. As the auditions came to an end, Destiny found herself casted as character Langston
Langston Wilde
Langston Wilde Cramer is a fictional character on ABC's daytime drama One Life to Live. She has been played by Brittany Underwood from May 17, 2006 til April 12, 2011...
, her hatred for the roll is fueled when she catches Langston and Ford
Robert Ford (One Life to Live)
Robert "Bobby" Ford is a fictional character from the ABC original soap opera One Life to Live. The role was originated by David A. Gregory on August 10, 2009 on a recurring basis. Gregory was upgraded to contract status in December 2009....
sharing a kiss. Destiny shares what she had just seen with Matthew. As the two are thinking as to whether or not to tell Markko
Markko Rivera
Geraldo "Markko" Rivera is a fictional character on ABC's daytime drama One Life to Live. He has been portrayed by Jason Tam since May 21, 2007. Tam last aired as Markko on November 10, 2010 when he left town to continue studying at UCLA...
, his video camera records their conversation. As the play proceeded Destiny caught the eye of the energetic stagehand Darren. After taking Destiny to the prom Darren and Destiny soon begun dating however the relationship is proven to be unsucessful.
Revelation
Greg soon becomes the center of attention as he is blackmailed by Eli ClarkeElijah Clarke (One Life to Live)
Elijah Clarke is a fictional character on the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live. He was portrayed by Matt Walton...
into falsely diagnosing Tea Delgado
Téa Delgado
Téa Delgado is a fictional character from the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live. The role was portrayed by Florencia Lozano from January 27, 1997 to March 2, 2000 and briefly in 2002; Lozano returned to the role once again on December 5, 2008.A stern but passionate personality, the character has...
with cancer. Greg later reveals that the secret Eli had on him was that he was secretly Destiny’s father, and his parents are her grandparents. To Destiny's horror, he also reveals that he kill Destiny’s real mother Charlene, who was Shaun's girlfriend, Shaun never knew as he was in prison when she was conceived. On the day of Greg's trial it is revealed to Destiny that Greg himself is responsible for the death and disposing of her mother Charlene. After Greg reveals the truth of her mother's demise, Destiny goes to Tea and asks her to be her lawyer so that she may divorce her parents. Destiny shuts out her parents and goes to live with Shaun, which sparks some concern with Darren. Destiny begins confiding in Matthew, who has once found himself in a similar situation. Seeing how the two support each other, doesn't go over too well with Darren. In an attempt to help Destiny move on from the issue she faces, he arranges a meeting with her grandfather. The meeting which failed miserably ended on the fact that perhaps it was too soon to come to any agreements. Destiny gave Darren an earful for his part in arranging the meeting. After everything that has happened Darren begins realizing that the person Destiny has become is not the person he wants in his life, the two break up. On January 24, 2011, Destiny and Matthew kissed for the first time following a series of events in which both felt betrayed by their families.
Matthew's coma and pregnancy
Destiny is pressured by Blanca Morales for information about the Buchanans and the Eddie Ford murder, and from information Destiny lets slip, Morales reaches the conclusion that Matthew did it. Matthew reveals to Destiny that he had killed Eddie Ford after the near-miss accident, Destiny comforts Matthew by informing him he is not to blame for what happened, and the two kiss which ends with Matthew leading her in to his bedroom where they have sex. A few days after they have sex, Matthew stops Destiny in Angels Square. Why has she been avoiding him since they were last together? Destiny tries to walk away and runs straight into Marty. As Matthew asks about the baby that Marty's holding, Destiny picks up the gun that's fallen from Marty's purse. Marty grabs the gun and aims it at the kids. Matthew steps in front of Destiny. When Brody calls out Marty's name, Marty takes off. Brody appears, full of blood, and manages to call 911. John runs into Brody, Destiny and Matthew in the hallway of the hospital. They explain how Marty was out of her mind. She took off with Brody's gun and Liam. Alone, Destiny rants at Matthew for stepping in front of the gun. He was only trying to protect her. He asks about her avoidance and reminds her they had sex. "You did what?" Shaun asks from behind them. Destiny claims Matthew and his girlfriend had sex, which deters Shaun, who leaves. Matthew makes it clear how much their time together meant to him.In Angle square, Dani comes across Matthew and Destiny sharing a kiss, and confronts her on it. Destiny revels to Dani under the influence of stress, her and Matthew had sex. the reason as to the cause of the stress becomes apparent two encounter Blanca Morales and revels to Dani that the killer is Matthew. Destiny tries to deny Morales's clam to Dani who is already wise. Nate
Nate Salinger
Nathaniel "Nate" Q. Salinger is a fictional character from the ABC original soap opera One Life to Live. The role is currently portrayed by Lenny Platt since April 12, 2010, and was on recurring status. He was put on contract in late October 2010....
overhears Destiny admit to Danielle that it was really Matthew had killed Eddie, and is enraged, not that his father Eddie is dead, but that Matthew had kept quiet while first Nate and then Inez were charged with the murder. Nate goes to Bo's garret and punches Matthew, causing Matthew to fall and hit his head. Nate tells Matthew to confess, or he'll turn him in. Destiny goes to Matthew and gives him the news that Clint had confessed. destiny unknown of what transpired between Matthew and Nate before she arrived gives him a pain reliever for his headache and leaves again. later that night Destiny receives a call from Matthews parents informing her of Matthew's incident. Destiny learns that Matthew collapsed and was taken in to surgery, and is brought to tears when seeing him unconscious. Dani later arrives to offer her comfort to Destiny, as does a silently guilt ridden Nate. After over hearing the doctors discussing Matthew among themselves, Destiny learns that Matthew is nearly brain dead. Nate and Dani finds the completely heartbroken Destiny and learns of what has become of Matthew. Nate, who is unable to miss work, apologizes to Destiny who is unaware for the true nature (his causing Matthew's accident) of the apology. Destiny and Dani overhear the doctors tell Bo and Nora that the chances of Matthew recovering is very minimal. while at the hospital, Starr arrives to see Matthew and overhears Destiny talking about how he cannot die after what happened between him and her in his bed. After realizing Starr was there, she and Starr left, but before they were about to leave Destiny goes to the bathroom to throw up. when she came out of the bathroom she thinks she threw up because of the cafeteria food in the hospital or from stress. But Starr realizes that she overheard Destiny about having sex with Matthew and asks if they used protection. Destiny says yes that they used protection and denies about being pregnant. When Starr left Destiny starts to fear she might be pregnant with Matthews baby. However as time passes Destiny continues to fear and talk to an sleeping Matthew about them possibly being pregnant even though she told Star she wasn't. Destiny finally takes a pregnancy test which confirms that she is pregnant with Matthew's child, however she continues to deny to everyone especially Starr and Dani that she is. The only people she tells is Matthew who is incoherent. On July 18, Destiny finds out that Nate had a one night stand with Deanna.On August 9, Destiny gets permission to have an abortion from Phylicia. On August 10, 2011, when Destiny goes to see Matthew, Nora overhears her saying, "I'm not going to have our baby." Nora begs her not to have an abortion, and to let her and Bo raise it if Destiny cannot. When David and Bo walk in, Destiny runs out of the room. However, David thinks that it had something to do with the movie that made her leave, so he runs after her. Bo learns from Nora that Destiny is pregnant with Matthew's child. On August 12th Destiny changes her mind for an abortion which leaves her mother suspicious leaving Destiny to be a single parent.