Piper Halliwell
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Image:01holly.jpg Piper Halliwell is a fictional character and the second "Charmed One" of the Halliwell Sisters in the WB television series Charmed, later to become the eldest sister (see below).
She is played by Holly Marie Combs, who is now also a producer of the series.
Powers
Piper's inherited power is the power of temporal stasis, or also referred to as molecular inhibition. This primarily gives her the ability to 'freeze' objects in motion by slowing down their molecular movement rate to such a point where they appear not to move. The trigger of this power is panic and Piper had to make hand gestures to cause things to freeze or unfreeze which became a big flaw because if Piper's hands were tied up, she'd be powerless. Piper at first could only freeze everything in her immediate location (within the room she was in) and the freeze would only last for a few seconds. She later learned to freeze and unfreeze on command, and selectively choose parts of objects to freeze or unfreeze. She could also freeze and unfreeze certain objects and subjects (like every innocent in the room). This power would keep growing stronger so that Piper can freeze for longer, and in a larger range of area around her. The phrase temporal stasis has been confused as a misused word for this ability but it actually is what the ability does (temporal means over a period of time and or denoting time and stasis is a state of balance between forces (equilibrium), and inactivity.)
Later, she developed the more offensive power of blowing things up. This power works by speeding up the molecules of the desired object to the point where they separate with an explosive action. It uses a similar hand motion as she does for freezing and thus, she was hesitant to use either power initially, not knowing whether her targets will freeze in place or explode into bits. As with freezing, Piper learned to master this power and can attack with better precision. This ability is known as Molecular Combustion.
However, both powers are reliant on both her hands (to do the blasting/freezing motion) and her eyes (because she needs to see what she is actually freezing/blowing up), and quite a few creatures (good and evil) are resistant or immune to her powers (For example, when she attempted to use her power on Cole Turner/Belthazor, all that she managed to do was send him flying back a few feet rather than actually destroy him).
Like the other Charmed Ones, Piper can also brew magical potions and recite/write spells. She is best at making potions, as predicted by Grams in 1997 before she died from a heart attack, because Piper is a natural-born and university-trained chef.
Piper's story
Piper Halliwell was born on August 7th, 1973 [1] to Patricia Halliwell and Victor Bennet, their second child.
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As a witch, she developed the power of Molecular Immobilization -- to slow down molecules to the point that they stop, so the object/demon looks like they are frozen.
On March 24th, 1975, she was visited by a future version of herself. It was also on that day that Patty signed a pact with the warlock Nicholas to make him a ring that made him immune to her daughters' powers. After Piper's little sister, Phoebe, was born in November 1975, Penny bound their powers to keep Nicholas from killing them and taking their powers. In the early part of the Charmed history, Piper is the middle sister of the three. She begins as meek, shy and very much the arbiter between her sisters Phoebe and Prue.
Trained as an accountant and a chef, she worked as a bank teller after her college graduation, but was persuaded by Grams to resign. Right after Grams died in 1997, Piper worked as a private caterer and as a chef at a trendy bar in downtown San Francisco called "Quake". She seems to be widely considered one of the better chefs in San Francisco (where the series is based.) Once the Charmed linage is revealed, Piper is initially shocked, and then disturbed by her new powers, scared that she may hurt someone.
She has been a Wendigo, a ghost, a Fury, a superhero, a Greek goddess, a Valkyrie, the Lady of the Lake, a Hindu goddess, an Angel of Death, and a wolf creature that came out during a blue moon (alongside Paige and Phoebe).
She has fallen in love with a ghost, a banker, a construction worker, a warlock and her whitelighter and husband Leo.
Piper's greatest fears are flying and spiders. Image:Piper05.jpg
Piper gave up her job as a restaurant manager to open her own club, called P3, after her sisters got a second mortgage for the manor.
When the Elders issued an ultimatum about Piper and Leo's relationship, Leo proposed to Piper, who, after some hesitation, accepted. They tried to marry in secret, but the Elders were told of their plans by Cole and they took Leo away. When the Elders forbade Piper from ever seeing Leo again, Piper decided to go on strike from being a witch. But once she realized that she still had a job to do and she still had to save innocents despite her anger over Leo, the Elders sent him back, giving them a chance to prove that their relationship would not interfere with their jobs.
Leo and Piper were finally married by the ghost of her grandmother Penny in a special ceremony. The sisters' father Victor, Phoebe's half-demon boyfriend Cole Turner and Detective Darryl Morris attended the wedding, and the whitelighter elders sent Patty back to Earth for the day to attend the wedding as a gift.
She earned the power of Molecular Combustion -- speeding up molecules so that they explode.
Piper became good friends with the 10-year-old Firestarter Tyler, after Paige brought him back to the manor from Social Services. Tyler's foster parents were actually demon bounty hunters, trying to capture him and give him to the demon Ludlow, who would train him to become one of the Source's bodyguard. Piper, Leo, and Tyler went to Ludlow's training academy, where Ludlow took Tyler to kill him, as the Source instead decided to just destroy him and take his powers. Piper, stuck outside the academy, could not blow up the enchanted door until she heard a scream from Tyler inside. Furious, her power was enormously magnified, and she destroyed the door. She and her sisters vanquished Ludlow with Paige's spell/haiku, and after binding Tyler's powers at his request, she found him a new family. She has visitation rights and continues to see him.
Leo and Piper had their powers swapped by their unborn baby for a short time, until they learned to appreciate how hard each other's lives are.
In an alternate reality that Cole created, Piper is a renegade demon-hunter, divorced from Leo, concerned only with killing Shax and avenging Prue's death.
Piper was diagnosed with toxemia, during her first pregnancy. But her baby was delivered safely by Paige and Phoebe at the manor and all were surprised to discover that the baby was a boy. Piper was afraid to leave her baby when she and Phoebe had to find out who placed a bounty on her baby. She named him Wyatt after his daddy and Matthew for his middle name after Paige.
Piper's sight was stolen by a monkey that was sent by the Crone.
When Piper and Leo's arguing began affecting Piper's powers, Phoebe suggested that they visit a marriage counselor. Piper cast a spell that allowed them to relive the good and difficult times during their relationship, which reminded them of why they got married. But as well as reaffirming their relationship, the session allowed them to realize that they had issues to work out.
The Charmed Ones met Chris Perry, the whitelighter from the future. Piper was once transformed into a nature goddess to combat the Titans, but later returned to normal. While she was a goddess, she was able to teleport anywhere at will, could control the weather, throw lightning bolts and sense the location of her sisters. Piper was consumed with anger when she learned that Leo might have to leave her and Wyatt to assume his new position as an Elder, but eventually both of them realized that Leo needed to act for the sake of the greater good.
Even though Piper tried to distance herself from Leo, she realized how much Leo missed Wyatt and how much Wyatt missed his daddy, so she told him that he could visit as much as he wanted when she was not around. But much to Leo's disappointment, Piper asked him for a divorce when she started to date again.
Piper was able to pull Excalibur out of the Stone, and Mordaunt had manipulated her to enlist a few demons to become her knights, so he can steal their powers to take control of the sword so he can kill the real owner of the sword -- Wyatt. Piper and her sisters were able to stop him, and decided to put the sword away to someplace safe.
Piper had befriended the ugly Beast that kidnapped her so he can get back his son.
When a demon used the power of a genie to wish the Charmed Ones dead, Leo's connection to Piper saved the sisters. Even though he and Piper were in a magically-induced sleep, Leo heard Piper's cries for help when her spirit began to move to the afterlife and he healed her. This incident drew Piper closer to Leo, as she was reminded of her connection to him.
When Piper and Leo became stranded in the ghostly plane with Leo shot by a darklighter's arrow and no one around to heal him, their defenses finally came down. When Leo told Piper that he still loved her, they ended up spending the night together. Because his presence at the manor had put his son at risk to the darklighter, Leo finally realized that he needed to take his place as an Elder. So when Paige and Phoebe told Piper that because she and Leo had slept together that Piper was pregnant with Chris, Piper felt that she could not tell Leo about their new son because he had finally been able to accept his new destiny.
Piper had decided to go to Magic School while she was pregnant, since she had protective field and demons couldn't attack her.
The idea of Wyatt being threatened drew Piper and Leo closer together.
Piper had gone into labor with Chris, and while she was at the hospital, she was losing a lot of blood, but she was able to deliver Chris, alive. With Chris being born, Piper and Leo could finally be a family once again.
Piper and Leo were possessed by two Hindu Gods. Piper was possessed by Shakti, the Goddess of Creation, and gained four extra arms and the power to generate electricity.
Piper, Phoebe, and Paige were turned into quarrelling teenagers by Grams.
The Angel of Death had recruited Piper to help him collect more souls to cross over.
Piper could not understand how Leo could make such a tremendous comeback, but she was willing to accept Leo back into her life once again, despite the fact that he told her that he was an Avatar.
But after the world of the Avatars failed, Leo had to deal with the Elder punishment. In the 150th episode, she received help in the form of Phoebes past love, Cole. He helped her and Leo get back together for good (which also made Leo mortal) and restore Phoebe's faith in love.
Piper and her sisters destroyed Zankou and the Nexus. Now the normal people and the demons think they are dead. It will be their chance to finally get a normal life.
Piper's alias is Jenny Bennet and everyone else, but her loved ones can see her "new look". However, Piper's new look matched someone else who was a wanted murderer. Piper had to change her look and get a new name, Jamie Bennet. She is now back to her real name and old life.
Going to a magical marriage counselor things do not turn out as well as they had hoped. Their counselor needed them to see how each of their lives were in order to get them more close to watch other. In order to do this the marriage counselor had them switch bodies in order to walk a mile in each other's shoes.
The Angel of Death came to Piper to warn her that Leo's time was coming. She figured out a way to prevent it, but she won't see Leo for a long time. She had Leo frozen. The Angel of Destiny told Piper and her sisters that they have another battle to fight and Leo's death would have motivated them to win and survive. If not, they would have died. If they win, Leo will come back.
Piper started to film everything that went on in the house so when Leo came back, he could watch what he missed. She has also been avoiding demon fighting.