Sunday, October 16, 2011

The Hero's Journey - Phoebe Halliwell

Phoebe was born on November 2nd 1975 and is the Middle sister of the Charmed Ones, with her older sister Piper Halliwell and their younger half sister Paige Matthews. She also had an older sister named Prue, who was killed by a demon. The Charmed Ones are three of the most powerful witches in the Halliwell line and Phoebe's powers include premonitions, levitation, empathy, and pathokinesis. She has found other jobs,aside from fighting Demons, as an advice columnist, reporter, and author but she always puts her family first above all else. She eventually married a Cupid named Coop and they had three children, all girls.



Wow. Is it getting hot in here or is it just me?” - Phoebe Halliwell


Phoebe and her sisters, Prue and Piper, were raised by their grandmother who bound the sister's magic and erased all their magical related memories in order to keep them safe. They grew up without their powers, not knowing that they were really witches until 1998 when Phoebe returned to San Francisco to the house she grew up in where her sisters lived now. That night while playing with a spirit board, the word 'attic' was spelled out on its own. She went up there to investigate and she found the Book of Shadows, their family's magic book and she read a spell from it, not knowing that it would unlock the powers of her and her sisters.

Phoebe and The Book of Shadows

Her first premonition was of two teenagers getting hit by a car and was able to prevent it from happening. Phoebe embraced her powers happily and encouraged her sisters to as well. Her relationship with her sisters was a rocky one but after they were reunited and had their powers returned, she became closer with them. Coming into the magic also help Phoebe become more of a responsible adult and she even went back to college and earned a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology. She met and fell in love with Cole Turner, a half demon called Belthazor, who was sent to kill Phoebe and her sisters. Cole also fell in love with her and instead of killing her, he protected her from the Triad, the powerful demons who hired him. The death of her sister Prue was devastating for her, since the two had become a lot closer over the last three years. Prue's death also broke the Power of Three until Phoebe and Piper discovered that they had a half sister named Paige Matthews, the daughter of their mother and her Whitelighter.

The Charmed Ones
Piper Halliwell, Phoebe Halliwell, and Paige Matthews
She has had a difficult relationship with Cole. First he was a half demon and then she stripped him of his powers, making him a regular human. Phoebe did not know that Cole had found a way to not only regain his powers, but also become The Source of All Evil in the process. Eventually, the two of them got married but Cole sabotaged the wedding into a dark wedding and Phoebe became the Queen of the Underworld, the place where the demon's dwell. Phoebe tried being both evil, as Queen of the Underworld, and good, as a Charmed One. She wasn't able to do it and, with the help of her sisters, she vanquished her husband. He isn't gone for long and soon comes back to attempt to regain Phoebe's love and falls. He is more powerful now and nearly indestructible but the Charmed Ones eventually found a way to destroy Cole once and for all.

Nothin' perks up a girl's career like sending her ex-husband straight to hell.” - Phoebe Halliwell

In the sister's seventh year of fighting demons, they battled a demon named Zankou who attempted to harness the power of the Nexus to destroy the witches. In defeating him, they faked their own deaths in the hopes that they could retire from their magical destinies and lead normal lives. Phoebe used a spell to change their appearance to anyone, mortal or demon, that saw them. Phoebe and her sisters soon learned that this was a mistake and reverted back to their 'normal' lives.

I am not nuts. Okay, maybe just a little, but that's irrelevant here.” - Phoebe Halliwell

Phoebe decided to move out of the manor where her sisters lived and get her own apartment, not long after that, The Elders sent Coop, a cupid, to her in order to help Phoebe find true love as a reward for all she has down in the battle against evil. Slowly, however, Coop and Phoebe fell in love with each other but both thought that their love for each other was forbidden. As fate had it, The Elders actually sent Coop to Phoebe hoping that they would fall in love, so it turned out that their love wasn't forbidden. They got married and on their honeymoon, Phoebe got pregnat with their first baby, whom they named Prudence Johnna Halliwell, after her sister Prue, who was killed years earlier.

Phoebe with her husband Coop and their daughter, P.J.
“I'm not afraid of our powers. I mean, everyone inherits something from their family, right? Yeah, money, antiques, a strong disposition. That's what normal people inherit.” - Phoebe Halliwell

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