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inplaceandtime) wrote2012-07-14 06:32 pm
inplaceandtime) wrote2012-07-14 06:32 pm
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ABOUT YOU
Name: DJ
Are you 18 or over? 20 > 18, so yes.
Other characters played: Sefton Lowell (biomagnet), Liam McNally (inequal).
CHARACTER
Name: Chris Halliwell
Canon: Charmed
Age: 22 (time travel shenanigans means he's probably a few months younger than he counts himself as, but it isn't all that significant)
Appearance: Chris stands at a respectable six feet and one inch tall. He has his mother's build and chocolate brown hair reaching near to his ears once again, and his father's stormy eyes — green, instead of Leo's blue. His fashion choices are incredibly hit or miss: sometimes he'll look perfectly fine, but at other times... don't ask. Surprisingly, considering his lifestyle, he possesses only one noticeable scar: a fair-sized slash along the right of his abdomen, a remnant of his near-death at Gideon's hands.
History: Since his wikia and wikipedia links are kind of a fanbrattish mess, I wrote this instead. Much of Chris' life up until he returned to the past is conjecture/headcanon based off of hints he drops while in the past. His time in 2003/2004 is what constitutes the season 5 finale and all of season 6 of the show.
On November 15th, 2004, Christopher Perry Halliwell was born to the eldest Charmed One, Piper Halliwell, and her whitelighter, Leo Wyatt, and became the younger brother to the Twice-Blessed Child, Wyatt Halliwell.
That day was quite a momentous day, although little of its excitement had to do with Chris. On that day, when all of the Charmed Ones were quite thoroughly distracted, Wyatt was kidnapped by Gideon (an Elder who had not only been a mentor to Leo, but argued for the rights of Wyatt's existence as a child of a whitelighter and his charge). The Elder feared the power of the Twice-Blessed and wanted to rid the world of it. Wyatt was missing for several months before finally being found. No one ever suspected Gideon's involvement, nor the amount of damage it had done to the impressionable child. Chris was never told exactly what happened when he was born.
(Meanwhile, Gideon returned Up There, no one suspecting his involvement in Wyatt's kidnapping. An Elder is a paragon of Good, why in the world would he be implicated for such a thing?)
For several years after that, Chris lived as normal of a life as a Charmed One's child was capable of. He went to school, he took the occasional course at Magic School (where Gideon was headmaster), and, once he was old enough, fended off the more-than-occasional demon attack with the rest of his family. His lack of power relative to mom, aunts and brother made him an easy target. It instilled in him the need to master what powers he did have to keep up.
Leo got busier by the day. Although he made the time if Piper or Wyatt called for him or if any of his other charges were in trouble, Chris rarely got that sort of time from his father. Almost every time Leo was supposed to be around, all Chris would get from his father was an apology letter. As one might suspect, he grew up as something of a mama's boy.
On the day Chris turned fourteen, all of that changed. Piper was killed in a violent and unexpected demonic attack. Both Wyatt and Chris witnessed this, but had drastically different reactions: Chris shut down; Wyatt got even. Wyatt, having already grown up with a skewed idea of what "Good" and "Evil" meant and how his power should be applied due to the trauma he suffered as such a young child, went on a rampage and destroyed every demon he came across in his search to take down the ones who had killed his mother. With the Power of Three broken, Wyatt bent on his mission of revenge, and Chris and Leo both heartbroken at the loss of Piper, the next few years were not easy. The only real bright point for Chris was when he got to know his maternal grandfather, Victor Bennett, and bond with him through the Event of Piper's death.
Both Phoebe and Paige were eventually killed in separate incidents, trying to protect themselves and their family. Chris left the manor and went to live with his grandfather permanently, and Wyatt finally surfaced. In his time in the Underworld, Wyatt had come to the belief that there was no such thing as Good and Evil, only power.
When Chris was sixteen (and Wyatt eighteen), the Twice-Blessed Child took over the world.
Chris' world had gone beyond shattered. His brother had declared himself evil overlord of the world and his grandfather was slowly dying. Although Chris hadn't been forced into hiding along with the rest of the magical community as one last 'gift' from his brother, he refused to join the new Supreme Overlord and did his best to fight against his brother's regime. He met a small group of like-minded individuals who still had enough hope to topple Wyatt's control and, with their help, managed to still do some good despite the odds against them and their often-unsavory methods. When he was twenty years old, Chris met and fell in love with an assassin witch named Bianca who had been contracted to kill the same demon that Chris had been hunting. Their relationship grew quickly, and soon they were engaged to be married. They promised they would get married as soon as Wyatt was stopped.
That day never came. Soon, they realized that perhaps they were looking at things wrong. If they couldn't undo what Wyatt had done in the present, perhaps they could undo what happened to turn Wyatt in the past? Surely, the easiest way to stop a problem was make sure it never started.
At twenty-one, Chris infiltrated the manor (now a memorial museum) along with Bianca. Although Chris was successful in retrieving the Book and casting the time travel spell, he was forced to leave Bianca behind to fight the demonic goons that had appeared in response to the Book's disappearance. Although it was 2026 when Chris entered the portal, it was 2003 when he exited.
It had worked.
Chris had just enough time tocut his hair do a little bit of ground-laying in this 'new' era before the perfect opportunity to insert himself in his family's lives arose: the Titans had escaped and were causing an incredible amount of havoc. Arriving just in time to save Phoebe and Paige from Meta, one of the Titans, he introduced himself as Chris Perry, a whitelighter from the future who had come back to specifically stop the Titans from "killing" Paige by transforming her into a statue. (This, as it turns out, is a bald-faced lie. Also the writers don't give a crap about continuity.) Thanks to the effort Chris put in during the crisis, he became the Halliwells' new whitelighter. All of this wasn't enough freedom for Chris to act as he found necessary to save Wyatt, and so right as Leo left, Chris scattered his father's orbs and sent Leo to Valhalla with the intent of bringing him home as soon as Wyatt's kidnapper was found.
Two months later, Chris still hadn't made much progress. He was eventually forced to tell the sisters about Leo's 'abduction', and stole several Valkyrie pendants (thereby killing them) to let the sisters enter Valhalla undetected and retrieve Leo. Leo was, understandably, suspicious of Chris upon returning and, somewhat less understandably, threw him into a cabinet.
The next chunk of time for Chris goes... slightly less complicated. He was involved in several things (such as helping the sisters regain their magic and identity from some ditzy blond witches), although it is worth noting that very soon after Phoebe developed her empathic power (about three episodes), Chris went to a demonic potion brewer with some very... extraneous instructions to make himself and the sisters an empath-blocking potion to keep them all from going insane. Of course, Leo had set the whole thing up as an excuse to catch Chris in the act of subterfuge — once the first potion was made and Chris gave it up to Leo in order to share with the sisters, he immediately turned around and commissioned another one for himself.
Nothing especially notable happened after that (aside from Chris being a huge jerk and insisting the sisters vanquish a small demon child because he was getting close to Wyatt. Chill out, dude. Also Chris and Leo had unstable-time-portal-adventures and Leo stopped hating him as much) until Bianca showed up in the back room of Piper's nightclub (Chris's current residence) and attempted to drain his powers. Chris, after some flashbacks to clue the audience in on his relationship to Bianca (including the part where she entrusted him their engagement ring), returned to Their Spot. Bianca was waiting and told him that her return was something special: if Wyatt had sent anybody else, all they would have had to bring back was a body-bag, whereas Bianca would try to bring Chris back alive. Oh and by the way that uncompleted power drain was going to kill Chris if he didn't let her finish the process. Chris basically went "are you kidding me" and orbed away before she could finish, then collapsed back at the manor. Bianca cast an inhibition-lowering spell on the sisters, which allowed her to abduct Chris and finish the job. Once Leo de-spelled them, the girls caught up with Bianca and Chris just in time to learn of Chris' witch/whitelighter heritage. There was nothing they could do to stop Bianca from taking a now-powerless Chris to the future.
Wyatt, as it turned out, had lost any patience he'd still had in relation to his brother. When Chris refused to join him one last time, Wyatt tried to kill him. Thanks to some hints Chris had left in the past, the sisters used a squeaky floorboard in the attic as a message in a bottle and left him a spell to return his powers — too late, however, as Bianca's attempts to hold Wyatt off left her in critical condition and dying before Chris' eyes. There was hardly any time for goodbyes, but they managed to leave the hope that they might meet each other again in the new timeline. Stealing the time travel spell so that Wyatt couldn't send any more assassins after him, Chris managed to return to the proper time, his determination to change the future even stronger than before.
After an incident involving a goo demon and some bright red go-go boots, it was almost Piper's birthday. The day before she turned thirty-one, a demon tried to attack Wyatt in his nursery and she had an epiphany: she would dedicate her life to raising and protecting her Twice-Blessed Child at the exclusion of all else if necessary... including love. It nearly gave Chris, who knew he would soon need to be conceived, a heart attack.
In the process of trying to subtly (haha, subtly) convince Piper that she shouldn’t give up on love, Chris made the easy mistake of, well, trying too hard and ended up kind of accidentally contributing to Wyatt being kidnapped by a cult called the Order.
No one was happy with Chris after that. He explained that the evil he came back to stop was, in fact, Wyatt himself and not some evil that managed to harm him in the future. The sisters were understandably less than believing and basically banished him from the house until further notice.
Some time later, he snuck into manor with a demon who could sense evil to try and locate whatever could be after Wyatt. As timing would have it, that was exactly when Leo and Paige came in and caught him red handed. Leo got pissed, but they needed Chris's help and sent him to fetch Phoebe. Once the crisis at magic school (wherein Gideon finally shows his face to the audience) was resolved, Phoebe confronted Chris with a question: was he Wyatt's little brother?
"Not if I don't get Piper and Leo back together in time."
After leaving Phoebe with that startling admission, he disappeared for nearly a week. He had to confirm how much time he had left. No matter where he went, he came up with the same answer: one month to be conceived, or Chris would never have existed. When he came to tell Phoebe this, they had a bit of an argument over Chris's disappearance and revelation, and, after some distraction involving a vision from the Middle East, Phoebe ended up becoming master to a djinn named Jinny. With the urgency in taking care of Jinny's former master, Chris was distracted by the much more important fact that Piper was about to get it on with a firefighter and immediately took the excuse to steal her from her date. The gang reconvened in the attic and, in desperation during an attack, Phoebe wished Jinny free. Turned out that Jinny had been an upper-level demon entrapped in the bottle and whoever wished the djinn in the bottle free would have to take its place.
Just when you thought things couldn't get worse, Chris ended up the master of newly-djinn'd Phoebe. His first wish was accidental: for Leo to forgive him. His second was a little less-than-accidental: for Piper and Leo to sleep together. Unfortunately, while Phoebe was bound to carry out the wish, she was morally against making it happen and thus it was carried out literally. Piper and Leo took an adorable nap together instead. For the rest of the episode. Jinny took the time of distraction to attack. During the ruckus, Chris lost possession of the bottle and it was picked up by Paige's magic-obsessed witch boyfriend, Richard. They captured Jinny, but Richard escaped. Then Chris was forced to explain his heritage after trying to tell Paige why Piper and Leo were in a magically-induced sleep. While Paige went to talk to Richard, Chris stayed behind to look after his parents and managed to sabotage Piper's relationship with the firefighter while he was at it. Score!
In the end, Leo still forgave Chris even after the magic wore off, the bottle was disposed of for good, and it looked like there might just have been a chance for Piper and Leo to eventually get back together.
"Eventually", as it turned out, didn't come soon enough. By the time Wyatt's birthday rolled around, Chris had run out of time. It was either his parents conceive him within the next 24 hours, or he was done for. Despite Phoebe and Paige's best efforts at subtle, mundane ways of getting them together, they were forced to realize that they might have had to take more magical measures by the end of the night. Their plans were interrupted by a darklighter attack, and further derailed when everyone was lured across town by the very same darklighter, right into an ambush — Phoebe ended up injured, but Piper and Leo had disappeared entirely. Meanwhile, Chris had begun to do some disappearing himself. The girls focused their efforts on locating their missing family (and brewing a love potion, just in case) while Chris tried to continue existing. As it would turn out, the janitor from P3 was actually an Angel of Death who had wanted to get to know Chris before he would begin to fade, calling it a unique circumstance. Chris, understandably, told Clarence to take a hike. Phoebe and Paige determined that Piper and Leo had been dragged into the ghostly plane — thankfully, they had someone who was beginning to cross between the two planes as he sputtered in and out of existence. All it really did before Chris finally disappeared was confirm the location, and by the time he returned (mysteriously in an alley instead of the attic), everything had been settled. Well, everything except for Leo's darklighter wound, which was promptly taken care of.
The experience (turned out that the darklighter had been after Leo all along, and had put pretty much all of his family in danger because of it) spurred Leo to finally commit to his duty as an Elder and move Up There permanently. Clarence showed up at P3 one last time to warn Chris not to waste his second chance, and Phoebe and Paige broke the news of her pregnancy to Piper. Mother finally met son.
Several months passed by and Chris began to avoid Piper. He was terrified of getting close to her in a familial capacity when he knew she was going to die when he turned fourteen. He threw himself into sussing out the one who would turn Wyatt once again and eventually found himself in a spot of trouble. The Scabber demons he had been undercover with caught onto the spy in their ranks and Chris began scrabbling around for a way to vanquish or otherwise get them off his tail. Piper, fed up with her son's treatment, invited Victor over to see if her father would have any better luck talking to Chris than she had. Spoilers: he did. A lot more. Chris greeted Victor with enthusiasm and open arms. Feeling left behind in a relationship he was supposedly a huge part of, Victor tried several different ways of bonding with Chris, ranging from smoking cigars (which Chris even bent his own rules over and warned Victor away from) and going to a fancy restaurant. It was there that Chris revealed the secret of the Event to Victor. Though heartbroken at the knowledge of his daughter's future death, he suggested to Chris that it was even more reason to get to know her in the past while he still had the chance. They returned home to learn that Phoebe had accidentally placed herself under a spell that gave her the mentality of her high school self and was currently running amok. The Scabber demons were feeling neglected, so they showed up to remind people Chris was in danger. Chris was relegated to the attic, now fortified against unwanted intrusion, while the sisters took care of Phoebe—he protested, not wanting the pregnant Piper to overtax or injure herself, and finally allowed himself to call her Mom. How heartwarming~
Later, on the way back from a check-up for the baby, Piper, Paige and Chris were attacked by a spider demon. They managed to fend it off, but not before Chris's neck was slashed up by the demon. With Chris refusing to let them call Leo in for healer-duty, they were simply left to look for the demon in the Book. It was around that time that Chris realized that maybe the spider demon's claws were poisonous. Just a hunch. As the day went by, Chris began turning into Spider-Man! No, seriously, he did, he had the sticky fingers and heightened reaction times and everything. It wasn't until later that he went nuts, entrapped Piper in a magical web, and even protected the spider demon herself that the sisters realized something was Wrong. Thankfully, Phoebe knew how to kickbox and Chris... didn't. After they locked him up in the basement, he tripped out and got to talk to the spider demon, who beckoned him to retrieve Piper and return to the demon. Phoebe and Paige called Leo in and, after a horribly botched attempt at talking to the poisoned Chris, Leo learned that the neurotic whitelighter was his son. The sisters were distracted with making another vanquishing potion for the spider demon when Chris revealed he could shift into a spider and got out of the basement. After a slightly more successful tussle with his family, he managed to abduct Piper and leave Phoebe, Paige and Leo a little... uh, tied up. To the wall. In magical webbing. Yeah.
Things began to unravel when it was revealed that the spider demon (who fed on the most powerful magical presence it could detect every one hundred years) not only planned to feed on Piper's magic... but that of her unborn child. Way to go, Chris. With the help of some forest friends that Paige helped out earlier in the episode, the spider demon was squished and the impenetrable webbing into her lair dissolved. Her vanquish did nothing to cure Chris. Leo went inside alone to free Piper and try to talk Chris down; when Chris revealed himself, he orbed Piper out, just in time to get trapped inside the lair with Chris. After some probing comments asking after why Chris hated him, trying to snap him out of his demonic brainwashing, Leo managed to provoke Chris into a rage wherein Chris began beating Leo into a bloody pulp. ("You don't know me! You don't know me!!") Outside, Piper had the brilliant idea of taking the spider demon antidote herself to inoculate the baby Chris inside of her. The plan worked, and Chris's demonic poisoning faded. He barely hesitated in the abrupt change back to normal before he continued wailing on Leo. There were issues to be... resolved, okay? Piper pulled Chris off, and he maturely then went to sulk on top of the Golden Gate Bridge. Leo followed him there, where Chris explained that his father had never been there for him — for Mom, for Wyatt, for half the world... but never for Chris. The entire incident prompted Piper to stay at magic school until little Chris was ready to be born for their own safety. In light of all that he had learned, Leo once again returned to the mortal plane to try and help pick up the slack and repair his relationship with Chris.
Chris was still determined to not get along with Leo, but they eventually worked together to learn that the demon of fear, Barbas, was trying his hand at magical prosecution against the sisters and had made a deal to get out of hell should he win a case against them. Although it was proven that the trial was a sham, Phoebe's active powers were stripped as punishment for her abuse of magic... and Barbas was not sent back to hell.
With Paige beginning to take up the slack not only for the pregnant Piper but now the nearly-powerless Phoebe, this is the point in time when Chris locates the window to Cittàgazze and changes his fate for good.
Point in canon: Just after 6x19: Crimes and Witch Demeanors, giving him a few weeks' time before 6x20: Wrong Day's Journey into Right
Window location: Inside Magic School, tucked away inside a room hidden in the grand library. As the school is a Hogwarts ripoff and is canonically known to show only specific people what they need to see, it is more or less hidden from anyone who is not Chris.
Universe: More or less the exact same modern day Earth (2004, if you're curious) that you know and love. Pop culture is the same, history is the same... only most legends, myths and magical lore contain more than a few kernels of truth in them. The most common and noticeable differences are the existence of witches, warlocks, whitelighers and demons. Witches (a gender-neutral term) are merely humans born with a magical talent, an inherited trait, and are committed to keeping the balance toward good rather than evil. Warlocks are witches who have lost their way and fallen to their darker impulses, using their magic to harm and hinder rather than help. Whitelighters are the equivalent of guardian angels, people who were brought back after death in order to serve a greater purpose, that of guiding young and impressionable witches or protecting those with destinies to become other whitelighters, and generally reside in a safe haven-type plane simply called Up There. (Higher-level whitelighters are called Elders and are pretty much the most useless board of directors ever.) Demons are incredibly numerous and span untold subspecies, residing in another plane called the Underworld, and frequently prey on humans and witches alike while perpetuating the cycle of evil to be fought. Notably, all magic is hidden from the nonmagical populace and this secrecy is the only thing both good and evil magical forces can agree upon: exposing your magic to the world for all to see can result in severe consequences if not caught by the Cleaners in time.
For details on specific species or aspect of... anything, really, your best bet would be to check the wiki, for all that it looks to sometimes be written by fourteen year olds.
Abilities: Chris is what fanon terms a "witchlighter", a hybrid born of a union between a witch and a whitelighter. This means that he possesses more abilities than your average witch, less than your average whitelighter, and still does not make him at all notable in his family full of godmodes. As a son of both a Charmed One and an Elder, Chris is stronger than most all witches outside of his family... but weaker than anyone inside of it. For ease of reading, let's put his powers into a bullet list:
✬ Orbing. Basically some sparkly, jingly teleportation. One of the three major types within Charmed canon (the others being "blinking" and "shimmering"), capable of easily traversing into the two other major planes of existence: Up There and the Underworld. Canonical limitations on this power include being unable to orb out of confines made of magical energy or places specifically meant to hold whitelighters. In-game, it's presumed that he will not be able to form himself inside of a dead zone in Cittàgazze, but should be able to easily pop in and out anywhere else notable. He can orb other people or objects with him as long as he maintains contact with them or someone within the chain.
✬ Hearing a charge's call. If someone calls for him by name, he may pick it up and be able to follow the trail through orbing. The show is somewhat inconsistent about how one acquires a charge or what it means to have a charge, so I usually have to play this one by ear. Chris can put this ability on "mute" if he deems it necessary.
✫ Telekinesis. He's only ever seen to channel this through waving his hands, although it's possible that he can also use it by squinting his eyes much like his aunt.
✬ Telekinetic orbing. The ability to teleport an object by calling its name (does not need to be overly specific), either to himself or to be redirected somewhere else.
✫ Spellcasting. The ability to create a desired effect simply by stringing together a rhyme or poem based on what is trying to be accomplished (usually about four lines long). The trickiest of powers to master, as it can be used without meaning to and can often have an unintended effect due to poor wording, the powers invoked in the spell, or insufficient power.
✫ Potion making. Given a good recipe and the required ingredients (sometimes a ritual to properly settle the concoction is necessary), this is the magical ability to tie the components together and create a potion of a varying effect. Most common are potions to vanquish demons, smoke bomb potions or sleeping potions. Most offensive potions need only be thrown at their target to work.
✫ Scrying. Allows Chris to locate a person by circling a crystal over a map until the crystal drops on the location of his target. A weak ability on its own, it can be strengthened with a focus belonging to the target; the stronger the emotional connection between the person and object, the easier it makes to locate them.
★ Morphing. Acquired from Collette in-game, see link for further details and full list of morphs.
Aside from weaknesses borne of his difficult personality, Chris is extremely susceptible to a substance known as darklighter poison thanks to his whitelighter heritage. Without magical healing intervention, the poison is untreatable and would kill him within hours of exposure. His magic can also be suppressed and blocked by a variety of spells, charms and natural effects (such as the suppressors at the Observatory and Violet's power); on the flipside, he is immune to demonic spider poison, and empathic reading in all but extreme circumstances. He is as mortal as anyone else, and succumbs to wounds just as easily.
Possessions: Nothing but the clothes on his back and an engagement ring in his pocket.
Personality: If you asked anyone who knew Chris Halliwell, they would tell you he's bossy, outspoken, driven, obsessive, neurotic, intensely secretive, and seriously needs a lesson in chilling out. All of this is painfully true, but is not the end all, be all of what defines him. Although he is perfectly capable of acting normal and civil in day-to-day interactions and being a nice guy, when he sets his mind to something, he will put every part of his being into accomplishing it. This is not to say he overreacts to small tasks, just that he Gets Things Done.
Growing up in his older brother, Wyatt's, shadow has instilled a deep-seated sense of inferiority and jealousy in Chris. Whereas his brother is the Twice-Blessed Child, first male born to the Warren line in centuries, King Arthur reincarnated and wielder of Excalibur, strongest single force of magic the world would ever know... Chris is simply Christopher Perry Halliwell. Wyatt knew from a young age that he could have whatever he wanted thanks to all of his power, and was taught humility to balance that (though that didn't exactly turn out too well for Mr. Future Evil Overlord); Chris, on the other hand, was taught the value of hard work and not letting his brother's power get in the way of doing what was right simply because Wy could do it better. He loves his brother dearly, but just as Wyatt can't help being so incredibly overpowered, neither can Chris help his own bitterness at the vast difference in their talents. As a result of this, Chris's self-worth is closely tied to his ability to finish what he starts and come out on top of whatever self-imposed challenge he sets. He is not unwilling to compromise with others should his own goals conflict with theirs, but he will not back down entirely and, if he can help it, will still come out with points in his own favor.
Chris is willing to let the ones he trusts lead when they agree on goals or he has no strong opinions on the matter. Being the son of a magical force that is at its strongest when working with others, not to mention often being paired up with his brother when they were growing up, means Chris understands the whole teamwork thing. It's when he disagrees that he speaks out, takes control, or tries to do things his own way. If he doesn't trust someone enough to let them have control, he will lie, deflect or otherwise excuse himself from the situation until he can do things solo.
At fourteen, his mother died and his family began to fall apart. His father was never there for him. His brother took over the world as an evil dictator. Because of having to grow up too quickly and without proper support, Chris's emotional maturity still remains near that of a teenager even though he's forced to take all of the responsibilities of an adult. He bucks against authority, and reacts poorly when dismissed out of hand. He'll sulk, pout, whine and bitch if he feels neglected or needs attention. When he feels he is in the right and knows what needs to be done (whether for his sake or others'), he becomes bossy and hyperfocused, like nothing but his own goals matter. It is not without reason that the sisters often called him neurotic. When someone else does something wrong, he isn't above poking at the event with sarcasm or moral superiority for having not fallen into the same trap. More than that, he is extremely protective of his family and friends and would do anything to help them out... even if his definition of 'help' doesn't exactly match the textbook.
Since he came to the past, Chris has grown into a much rougher persona in order to protect himself. His usual sarcastic bite has become a cynical snap and his temper is easier to ignite than ever — not that his anger usually results in explosions, but a bitter simmer. Details about himself and the time he comes from have been closely guarded for fear of screwing up the timeline in completely irrevocable ways, a habit he has kept even after such drastic measures were no longer necessary. That isn't to say that he keeps secrets flawlessly; he does slip up every now and then, just with the smaller things that he doesn't necessarily think to hide. Calling him an extremist would not be too much of an exaggeration, as he has knowingly put even the ones he loves into dangerous situations. He overestimates his own abilities and does not always account for all the ways something could go wrong. He is not above violence to solve magical problems. Being attacked and vanquishing demons is the norm in a witch's life, but Chris is pushed even further than that and kills three Valkyries in order to help the sisters and keep his plans somewhat on-track, though notably not without remorse. He does some of the more reprehensible things only because he has to, and has learned to put his own wants behind those needs. Killing innocents (humans without powers or actual investment in the magical world) is a step that even Chris won't take.
Stranded in a time where his family had no idea they were dealing with their future son and nephew put an extreme strain on Chris. He dove into his work to find whatever demon had turned Wyatt, his usual drive and dedication pumped up to 11 until that race against time was the only goal at that point in his life — for the time he was in 2004, he had no one to lean on, nor anyone who genuinely cared enough to make him take a proper break. Stress was the name of the game.
Revealing himself to his family in the past and finally receiving some of the love and attention he had been missing his entire adult life has helped him put a lid on many of his more negative eccentricities and mellow out, but you can’t get rid of a lifetime of neuroticism with a little family love. Looking beyond his usual attitude, Chris reveals himself to be a kind (if often misguided) and compassionate individual. He is extremely loyal to those he trusts (though said loyalty is hard-earned for anyone not named "Halliwell") and will often be there to help anyone inside that circle.
Keeping secrets is a natural part of any witch's life, hiding one's own magic in order to keep from exposing magic. Even though any sort of magical being has to make sure not to reveal itself to the nonmagical community, that doesn't mean magic isn't a humongous part of their lives, and Chris is no exception. Unlike his mother and aunts, whose powers were bound until their young adulthood, Chris was born into his powers and the freedom they gave him (orbing especially). What little power he had (in comparison to Wyatt, anyway) is extremely important to him; without them, he wouldn't be half the person he grew up as, the one who can travel across the world in seconds, move objects with the flick of his hand, or (most importantly) save lives with a handy-dandy rhyme or well-brewed potion. Even if he loses his powers sometimes (and in his family, it's bound to have happened once or twice), he still bounces back with the knowledge that he is magic and his powers and experiences set him apart from so many others.
'Personal gain' is the concept that if magic is ever used to help oneself instead of to help others (such as rigging the lottery or conjuring yourself a super-nice car), the magic will backfire in some way. Although Chris certainly toes the line, an ingrained respect for magic keeps him from outright abusing it — although that doesn't mean he won't use magic to his advantage if the opportunity presents itself or if he's desperate enough. He's a little dumb like that.
Plans: Chris can be a very active participant in a lot of things, especially when it comes to trying to solve a large problem. His involvement with the Observatory would likely be minimal at the start, as he would be more thoroughly occupied with trying to save his home timeline than running the NPEC's errands and would petition for Nhadala to keep his Window open at least until his birthday (two months from the point in canon I'm bringing him from) — when he knows whether he'll have failed or succeeded his mission. After that, the idea is for Chris to escape his canonical death at the hands of Gideon thanks to his dæmon and eventually return home to 2026, where he will ask his family to help him move the Window forward in time in order to maintain all of his obligations. From there, he'll be totally freeform as far as canon goes and much less rigid in what needs to happen with him. And, of course, there will be plenty of time for player plots in between all of that drama as he splits his time between home and Cittàgazze.
DÆMON
Name: Etana
Sex: Female
Form: Darwin's fox (Lycalopex fulvipes)
Additional notes: She does not possess or control any of Chris's magic. However, she is able to subconsciously orb with Chris regardless of physical contact to avoid any accidental splinching or intercision.
Why this form: Based off of this list, foxes in general fit Chris's temperament to a T. He is something of a quiet and sneaky person through his very nature, not at all incapable of defending himself but appearing to be nothing special. While many of his traits coincide with a canine or lupine (his extreme loyalty, his lone-wolf tendencies), that isn't the end-all, be-all of Chris and would rather throw people off from assigning him these traits in the first place — which is part of his intention. He is highly adaptable, difficult to pin down and guarded in his personal affairs. While a fox might seem cliché, I can't think of a better fit for someone like Chris and would rather keep it simple than reach out to find something unique that doesn't fit nearly as well.
Name: DJ
Are you 18 or over? 20 > 18, so yes.
Other characters played: Sefton Lowell (
biomagnet), Liam McNally (inequal).CHARACTER
Name: Chris Halliwell
Canon: Charmed
Age: 22 (time travel shenanigans means he's probably a few months younger than he counts himself as, but it isn't all that significant)
Appearance: Chris stands at a respectable six feet and one inch tall. He has his mother's build and chocolate brown hair reaching near to his ears once again, and his father's stormy eyes — green, instead of Leo's blue. His fashion choices are incredibly hit or miss: sometimes he'll look perfectly fine, but at other times... don't ask. Surprisingly, considering his lifestyle, he possesses only one noticeable scar: a fair-sized slash along the right of his abdomen, a remnant of his near-death at Gideon's hands.
History: Since his wikia and wikipedia links are kind of a fanbrattish mess, I wrote this instead. Much of Chris' life up until he returned to the past is conjecture/headcanon based off of hints he drops while in the past. His time in 2003/2004 is what constitutes the season 5 finale and all of season 6 of the show.
On November 15th, 2004, Christopher Perry Halliwell was born to the eldest Charmed One, Piper Halliwell, and her whitelighter, Leo Wyatt, and became the younger brother to the Twice-Blessed Child, Wyatt Halliwell.
That day was quite a momentous day, although little of its excitement had to do with Chris. On that day, when all of the Charmed Ones were quite thoroughly distracted, Wyatt was kidnapped by Gideon (an Elder who had not only been a mentor to Leo, but argued for the rights of Wyatt's existence as a child of a whitelighter and his charge). The Elder feared the power of the Twice-Blessed and wanted to rid the world of it. Wyatt was missing for several months before finally being found. No one ever suspected Gideon's involvement, nor the amount of damage it had done to the impressionable child. Chris was never told exactly what happened when he was born.
(Meanwhile, Gideon returned Up There, no one suspecting his involvement in Wyatt's kidnapping. An Elder is a paragon of Good, why in the world would he be implicated for such a thing?)
For several years after that, Chris lived as normal of a life as a Charmed One's child was capable of. He went to school, he took the occasional course at Magic School (where Gideon was headmaster), and, once he was old enough, fended off the more-than-occasional demon attack with the rest of his family. His lack of power relative to mom, aunts and brother made him an easy target. It instilled in him the need to master what powers he did have to keep up.
Leo got busier by the day. Although he made the time if Piper or Wyatt called for him or if any of his other charges were in trouble, Chris rarely got that sort of time from his father. Almost every time Leo was supposed to be around, all Chris would get from his father was an apology letter. As one might suspect, he grew up as something of a mama's boy.
On the day Chris turned fourteen, all of that changed. Piper was killed in a violent and unexpected demonic attack. Both Wyatt and Chris witnessed this, but had drastically different reactions: Chris shut down; Wyatt got even. Wyatt, having already grown up with a skewed idea of what "Good" and "Evil" meant and how his power should be applied due to the trauma he suffered as such a young child, went on a rampage and destroyed every demon he came across in his search to take down the ones who had killed his mother. With the Power of Three broken, Wyatt bent on his mission of revenge, and Chris and Leo both heartbroken at the loss of Piper, the next few years were not easy. The only real bright point for Chris was when he got to know his maternal grandfather, Victor Bennett, and bond with him through the Event of Piper's death.
Both Phoebe and Paige were eventually killed in separate incidents, trying to protect themselves and their family. Chris left the manor and went to live with his grandfather permanently, and Wyatt finally surfaced. In his time in the Underworld, Wyatt had come to the belief that there was no such thing as Good and Evil, only power.
When Chris was sixteen (and Wyatt eighteen), the Twice-Blessed Child took over the world.
Chris' world had gone beyond shattered. His brother had declared himself evil overlord of the world and his grandfather was slowly dying. Although Chris hadn't been forced into hiding along with the rest of the magical community as one last 'gift' from his brother, he refused to join the new Supreme Overlord and did his best to fight against his brother's regime. He met a small group of like-minded individuals who still had enough hope to topple Wyatt's control and, with their help, managed to still do some good despite the odds against them and their often-unsavory methods. When he was twenty years old, Chris met and fell in love with an assassin witch named Bianca who had been contracted to kill the same demon that Chris had been hunting. Their relationship grew quickly, and soon they were engaged to be married. They promised they would get married as soon as Wyatt was stopped.
That day never came. Soon, they realized that perhaps they were looking at things wrong. If they couldn't undo what Wyatt had done in the present, perhaps they could undo what happened to turn Wyatt in the past? Surely, the easiest way to stop a problem was make sure it never started.
At twenty-one, Chris infiltrated the manor (now a memorial museum) along with Bianca. Although Chris was successful in retrieving the Book and casting the time travel spell, he was forced to leave Bianca behind to fight the demonic goons that had appeared in response to the Book's disappearance. Although it was 2026 when Chris entered the portal, it was 2003 when he exited.
It had worked.
Chris had just enough time to
Two months later, Chris still hadn't made much progress. He was eventually forced to tell the sisters about Leo's 'abduction', and stole several Valkyrie pendants (thereby killing them) to let the sisters enter Valhalla undetected and retrieve Leo. Leo was, understandably, suspicious of Chris upon returning and, somewhat less understandably, threw him into a cabinet.
The next chunk of time for Chris goes... slightly less complicated. He was involved in several things (such as helping the sisters regain their magic and identity from some ditzy blond witches), although it is worth noting that very soon after Phoebe developed her empathic power (about three episodes), Chris went to a demonic potion brewer with some very... extraneous instructions to make himself and the sisters an empath-blocking potion to keep them all from going insane. Of course, Leo had set the whole thing up as an excuse to catch Chris in the act of subterfuge — once the first potion was made and Chris gave it up to Leo in order to share with the sisters, he immediately turned around and commissioned another one for himself.
Nothing especially notable happened after that (aside from Chris being a huge jerk and insisting the sisters vanquish a small demon child because he was getting close to Wyatt. Chill out, dude. Also Chris and Leo had unstable-time-portal-adventures and Leo stopped hating him as much) until Bianca showed up in the back room of Piper's nightclub (Chris's current residence) and attempted to drain his powers. Chris, after some flashbacks to clue the audience in on his relationship to Bianca (including the part where she entrusted him their engagement ring), returned to Their Spot. Bianca was waiting and told him that her return was something special: if Wyatt had sent anybody else, all they would have had to bring back was a body-bag, whereas Bianca would try to bring Chris back alive. Oh and by the way that uncompleted power drain was going to kill Chris if he didn't let her finish the process. Chris basically went "are you kidding me" and orbed away before she could finish, then collapsed back at the manor. Bianca cast an inhibition-lowering spell on the sisters, which allowed her to abduct Chris and finish the job. Once Leo de-spelled them, the girls caught up with Bianca and Chris just in time to learn of Chris' witch/whitelighter heritage. There was nothing they could do to stop Bianca from taking a now-powerless Chris to the future.
Wyatt, as it turned out, had lost any patience he'd still had in relation to his brother. When Chris refused to join him one last time, Wyatt tried to kill him. Thanks to some hints Chris had left in the past, the sisters used a squeaky floorboard in the attic as a message in a bottle and left him a spell to return his powers — too late, however, as Bianca's attempts to hold Wyatt off left her in critical condition and dying before Chris' eyes. There was hardly any time for goodbyes, but they managed to leave the hope that they might meet each other again in the new timeline. Stealing the time travel spell so that Wyatt couldn't send any more assassins after him, Chris managed to return to the proper time, his determination to change the future even stronger than before.
After an incident involving a goo demon and some bright red go-go boots, it was almost Piper's birthday. The day before she turned thirty-one, a demon tried to attack Wyatt in his nursery and she had an epiphany: she would dedicate her life to raising and protecting her Twice-Blessed Child at the exclusion of all else if necessary... including love. It nearly gave Chris, who knew he would soon need to be conceived, a heart attack.
In the process of trying to subtly (haha, subtly) convince Piper that she shouldn’t give up on love, Chris made the easy mistake of, well, trying too hard and ended up kind of accidentally contributing to Wyatt being kidnapped by a cult called the Order.
No one was happy with Chris after that. He explained that the evil he came back to stop was, in fact, Wyatt himself and not some evil that managed to harm him in the future. The sisters were understandably less than believing and basically banished him from the house until further notice.
Some time later, he snuck into manor with a demon who could sense evil to try and locate whatever could be after Wyatt. As timing would have it, that was exactly when Leo and Paige came in and caught him red handed. Leo got pissed, but they needed Chris's help and sent him to fetch Phoebe. Once the crisis at magic school (wherein Gideon finally shows his face to the audience) was resolved, Phoebe confronted Chris with a question: was he Wyatt's little brother?
"Not if I don't get Piper and Leo back together in time."
After leaving Phoebe with that startling admission, he disappeared for nearly a week. He had to confirm how much time he had left. No matter where he went, he came up with the same answer: one month to be conceived, or Chris would never have existed. When he came to tell Phoebe this, they had a bit of an argument over Chris's disappearance and revelation, and, after some distraction involving a vision from the Middle East, Phoebe ended up becoming master to a djinn named Jinny. With the urgency in taking care of Jinny's former master, Chris was distracted by the much more important fact that Piper was about to get it on with a firefighter and immediately took the excuse to steal her from her date. The gang reconvened in the attic and, in desperation during an attack, Phoebe wished Jinny free. Turned out that Jinny had been an upper-level demon entrapped in the bottle and whoever wished the djinn in the bottle free would have to take its place.
Just when you thought things couldn't get worse, Chris ended up the master of newly-djinn'd Phoebe. His first wish was accidental: for Leo to forgive him. His second was a little less-than-accidental: for Piper and Leo to sleep together. Unfortunately, while Phoebe was bound to carry out the wish, she was morally against making it happen and thus it was carried out literally. Piper and Leo took an adorable nap together instead. For the rest of the episode. Jinny took the time of distraction to attack. During the ruckus, Chris lost possession of the bottle and it was picked up by Paige's magic-obsessed witch boyfriend, Richard. They captured Jinny, but Richard escaped. Then Chris was forced to explain his heritage after trying to tell Paige why Piper and Leo were in a magically-induced sleep. While Paige went to talk to Richard, Chris stayed behind to look after his parents and managed to sabotage Piper's relationship with the firefighter while he was at it. Score!
In the end, Leo still forgave Chris even after the magic wore off, the bottle was disposed of for good, and it looked like there might just have been a chance for Piper and Leo to eventually get back together.
"Eventually", as it turned out, didn't come soon enough. By the time Wyatt's birthday rolled around, Chris had run out of time. It was either his parents conceive him within the next 24 hours, or he was done for. Despite Phoebe and Paige's best efforts at subtle, mundane ways of getting them together, they were forced to realize that they might have had to take more magical measures by the end of the night. Their plans were interrupted by a darklighter attack, and further derailed when everyone was lured across town by the very same darklighter, right into an ambush — Phoebe ended up injured, but Piper and Leo had disappeared entirely. Meanwhile, Chris had begun to do some disappearing himself. The girls focused their efforts on locating their missing family (and brewing a love potion, just in case) while Chris tried to continue existing. As it would turn out, the janitor from P3 was actually an Angel of Death who had wanted to get to know Chris before he would begin to fade, calling it a unique circumstance. Chris, understandably, told Clarence to take a hike. Phoebe and Paige determined that Piper and Leo had been dragged into the ghostly plane — thankfully, they had someone who was beginning to cross between the two planes as he sputtered in and out of existence. All it really did before Chris finally disappeared was confirm the location, and by the time he returned (mysteriously in an alley instead of the attic), everything had been settled. Well, everything except for Leo's darklighter wound, which was promptly taken care of.
The experience (turned out that the darklighter had been after Leo all along, and had put pretty much all of his family in danger because of it) spurred Leo to finally commit to his duty as an Elder and move Up There permanently. Clarence showed up at P3 one last time to warn Chris not to waste his second chance, and Phoebe and Paige broke the news of her pregnancy to Piper. Mother finally met son.
Several months passed by and Chris began to avoid Piper. He was terrified of getting close to her in a familial capacity when he knew she was going to die when he turned fourteen. He threw himself into sussing out the one who would turn Wyatt once again and eventually found himself in a spot of trouble. The Scabber demons he had been undercover with caught onto the spy in their ranks and Chris began scrabbling around for a way to vanquish or otherwise get them off his tail. Piper, fed up with her son's treatment, invited Victor over to see if her father would have any better luck talking to Chris than she had. Spoilers: he did. A lot more. Chris greeted Victor with enthusiasm and open arms. Feeling left behind in a relationship he was supposedly a huge part of, Victor tried several different ways of bonding with Chris, ranging from smoking cigars (which Chris even bent his own rules over and warned Victor away from) and going to a fancy restaurant. It was there that Chris revealed the secret of the Event to Victor. Though heartbroken at the knowledge of his daughter's future death, he suggested to Chris that it was even more reason to get to know her in the past while he still had the chance. They returned home to learn that Phoebe had accidentally placed herself under a spell that gave her the mentality of her high school self and was currently running amok. The Scabber demons were feeling neglected, so they showed up to remind people Chris was in danger. Chris was relegated to the attic, now fortified against unwanted intrusion, while the sisters took care of Phoebe—he protested, not wanting the pregnant Piper to overtax or injure herself, and finally allowed himself to call her Mom. How heartwarming~
Later, on the way back from a check-up for the baby, Piper, Paige and Chris were attacked by a spider demon. They managed to fend it off, but not before Chris's neck was slashed up by the demon. With Chris refusing to let them call Leo in for healer-duty, they were simply left to look for the demon in the Book. It was around that time that Chris realized that maybe the spider demon's claws were poisonous. Just a hunch. As the day went by, Chris began turning into Spider-Man! No, seriously, he did, he had the sticky fingers and heightened reaction times and everything. It wasn't until later that he went nuts, entrapped Piper in a magical web, and even protected the spider demon herself that the sisters realized something was Wrong. Thankfully, Phoebe knew how to kickbox and Chris... didn't. After they locked him up in the basement, he tripped out and got to talk to the spider demon, who beckoned him to retrieve Piper and return to the demon. Phoebe and Paige called Leo in and, after a horribly botched attempt at talking to the poisoned Chris, Leo learned that the neurotic whitelighter was his son. The sisters were distracted with making another vanquishing potion for the spider demon when Chris revealed he could shift into a spider and got out of the basement. After a slightly more successful tussle with his family, he managed to abduct Piper and leave Phoebe, Paige and Leo a little... uh, tied up. To the wall. In magical webbing. Yeah.
Things began to unravel when it was revealed that the spider demon (who fed on the most powerful magical presence it could detect every one hundred years) not only planned to feed on Piper's magic... but that of her unborn child. Way to go, Chris. With the help of some forest friends that Paige helped out earlier in the episode, the spider demon was squished and the impenetrable webbing into her lair dissolved. Her vanquish did nothing to cure Chris. Leo went inside alone to free Piper and try to talk Chris down; when Chris revealed himself, he orbed Piper out, just in time to get trapped inside the lair with Chris. After some probing comments asking after why Chris hated him, trying to snap him out of his demonic brainwashing, Leo managed to provoke Chris into a rage wherein Chris began beating Leo into a bloody pulp. ("You don't know me! You don't know me!!") Outside, Piper had the brilliant idea of taking the spider demon antidote herself to inoculate the baby Chris inside of her. The plan worked, and Chris's demonic poisoning faded. He barely hesitated in the abrupt change back to normal before he continued wailing on Leo. There were issues to be... resolved, okay? Piper pulled Chris off, and he maturely then went to sulk on top of the Golden Gate Bridge. Leo followed him there, where Chris explained that his father had never been there for him — for Mom, for Wyatt, for half the world... but never for Chris. The entire incident prompted Piper to stay at magic school until little Chris was ready to be born for their own safety. In light of all that he had learned, Leo once again returned to the mortal plane to try and help pick up the slack and repair his relationship with Chris.
Chris was still determined to not get along with Leo, but they eventually worked together to learn that the demon of fear, Barbas, was trying his hand at magical prosecution against the sisters and had made a deal to get out of hell should he win a case against them. Although it was proven that the trial was a sham, Phoebe's active powers were stripped as punishment for her abuse of magic... and Barbas was not sent back to hell.
With Paige beginning to take up the slack not only for the pregnant Piper but now the nearly-powerless Phoebe, this is the point in time when Chris locates the window to Cittàgazze and changes his fate for good.
Point in canon: Just after 6x19: Crimes and Witch Demeanors, giving him a few weeks' time before 6x20: Wrong Day's Journey into Right
Window location: Inside Magic School, tucked away inside a room hidden in the grand library. As the school is a Hogwarts ripoff and is canonically known to show only specific people what they need to see, it is more or less hidden from anyone who is not Chris.
Universe: More or less the exact same modern day Earth (2004, if you're curious) that you know and love. Pop culture is the same, history is the same... only most legends, myths and magical lore contain more than a few kernels of truth in them. The most common and noticeable differences are the existence of witches, warlocks, whitelighers and demons. Witches (a gender-neutral term) are merely humans born with a magical talent, an inherited trait, and are committed to keeping the balance toward good rather than evil. Warlocks are witches who have lost their way and fallen to their darker impulses, using their magic to harm and hinder rather than help. Whitelighters are the equivalent of guardian angels, people who were brought back after death in order to serve a greater purpose, that of guiding young and impressionable witches or protecting those with destinies to become other whitelighters, and generally reside in a safe haven-type plane simply called Up There. (Higher-level whitelighters are called Elders and are pretty much the most useless board of directors ever.) Demons are incredibly numerous and span untold subspecies, residing in another plane called the Underworld, and frequently prey on humans and witches alike while perpetuating the cycle of evil to be fought. Notably, all magic is hidden from the nonmagical populace and this secrecy is the only thing both good and evil magical forces can agree upon: exposing your magic to the world for all to see can result in severe consequences if not caught by the Cleaners in time.
For details on specific species or aspect of... anything, really, your best bet would be to check the wiki, for all that it looks to sometimes be written by fourteen year olds.
Abilities: Chris is what fanon terms a "witchlighter", a hybrid born of a union between a witch and a whitelighter. This means that he possesses more abilities than your average witch, less than your average whitelighter, and still does not make him at all notable in his family full of godmodes. As a son of both a Charmed One and an Elder, Chris is stronger than most all witches outside of his family... but weaker than anyone inside of it. For ease of reading, let's put his powers into a bullet list:
✬ Orbing. Basically some sparkly, jingly teleportation. One of the three major types within Charmed canon (the others being "blinking" and "shimmering"), capable of easily traversing into the two other major planes of existence: Up There and the Underworld. Canonical limitations on this power include being unable to orb out of confines made of magical energy or places specifically meant to hold whitelighters. In-game, it's presumed that he will not be able to form himself inside of a dead zone in Cittàgazze, but should be able to easily pop in and out anywhere else notable. He can orb other people or objects with him as long as he maintains contact with them or someone within the chain.
✬ Hearing a charge's call. If someone calls for him by name, he may pick it up and be able to follow the trail through orbing. The show is somewhat inconsistent about how one acquires a charge or what it means to have a charge, so I usually have to play this one by ear. Chris can put this ability on "mute" if he deems it necessary.
✫ Telekinesis. He's only ever seen to channel this through waving his hands, although it's possible that he can also use it by squinting his eyes much like his aunt.
✬ Telekinetic orbing. The ability to teleport an object by calling its name (does not need to be overly specific), either to himself or to be redirected somewhere else.
✫ Spellcasting. The ability to create a desired effect simply by stringing together a rhyme or poem based on what is trying to be accomplished (usually about four lines long). The trickiest of powers to master, as it can be used without meaning to and can often have an unintended effect due to poor wording, the powers invoked in the spell, or insufficient power.
✫ Potion making. Given a good recipe and the required ingredients (sometimes a ritual to properly settle the concoction is necessary), this is the magical ability to tie the components together and create a potion of a varying effect. Most common are potions to vanquish demons, smoke bomb potions or sleeping potions. Most offensive potions need only be thrown at their target to work.
✫ Scrying. Allows Chris to locate a person by circling a crystal over a map until the crystal drops on the location of his target. A weak ability on its own, it can be strengthened with a focus belonging to the target; the stronger the emotional connection between the person and object, the easier it makes to locate them.
★ Morphing. Acquired from Collette in-game, see link for further details and full list of morphs.
Aside from weaknesses borne of his difficult personality, Chris is extremely susceptible to a substance known as darklighter poison thanks to his whitelighter heritage. Without magical healing intervention, the poison is untreatable and would kill him within hours of exposure. His magic can also be suppressed and blocked by a variety of spells, charms and natural effects (such as the suppressors at the Observatory and Violet's power); on the flipside, he is immune to demonic spider poison, and empathic reading in all but extreme circumstances. He is as mortal as anyone else, and succumbs to wounds just as easily.
Possessions: Nothing but the clothes on his back and an engagement ring in his pocket.
Personality: If you asked anyone who knew Chris Halliwell, they would tell you he's bossy, outspoken, driven, obsessive, neurotic, intensely secretive, and seriously needs a lesson in chilling out. All of this is painfully true, but is not the end all, be all of what defines him. Although he is perfectly capable of acting normal and civil in day-to-day interactions and being a nice guy, when he sets his mind to something, he will put every part of his being into accomplishing it. This is not to say he overreacts to small tasks, just that he Gets Things Done.
Growing up in his older brother, Wyatt's, shadow has instilled a deep-seated sense of inferiority and jealousy in Chris. Whereas his brother is the Twice-Blessed Child, first male born to the Warren line in centuries, King Arthur reincarnated and wielder of Excalibur, strongest single force of magic the world would ever know... Chris is simply Christopher Perry Halliwell. Wyatt knew from a young age that he could have whatever he wanted thanks to all of his power, and was taught humility to balance that (though that didn't exactly turn out too well for Mr. Future Evil Overlord); Chris, on the other hand, was taught the value of hard work and not letting his brother's power get in the way of doing what was right simply because Wy could do it better. He loves his brother dearly, but just as Wyatt can't help being so incredibly overpowered, neither can Chris help his own bitterness at the vast difference in their talents. As a result of this, Chris's self-worth is closely tied to his ability to finish what he starts and come out on top of whatever self-imposed challenge he sets. He is not unwilling to compromise with others should his own goals conflict with theirs, but he will not back down entirely and, if he can help it, will still come out with points in his own favor.
Chris is willing to let the ones he trusts lead when they agree on goals or he has no strong opinions on the matter. Being the son of a magical force that is at its strongest when working with others, not to mention often being paired up with his brother when they were growing up, means Chris understands the whole teamwork thing. It's when he disagrees that he speaks out, takes control, or tries to do things his own way. If he doesn't trust someone enough to let them have control, he will lie, deflect or otherwise excuse himself from the situation until he can do things solo.
At fourteen, his mother died and his family began to fall apart. His father was never there for him. His brother took over the world as an evil dictator. Because of having to grow up too quickly and without proper support, Chris's emotional maturity still remains near that of a teenager even though he's forced to take all of the responsibilities of an adult. He bucks against authority, and reacts poorly when dismissed out of hand. He'll sulk, pout, whine and bitch if he feels neglected or needs attention. When he feels he is in the right and knows what needs to be done (whether for his sake or others'), he becomes bossy and hyperfocused, like nothing but his own goals matter. It is not without reason that the sisters often called him neurotic. When someone else does something wrong, he isn't above poking at the event with sarcasm or moral superiority for having not fallen into the same trap. More than that, he is extremely protective of his family and friends and would do anything to help them out... even if his definition of 'help' doesn't exactly match the textbook.
Since he came to the past, Chris has grown into a much rougher persona in order to protect himself. His usual sarcastic bite has become a cynical snap and his temper is easier to ignite than ever — not that his anger usually results in explosions, but a bitter simmer. Details about himself and the time he comes from have been closely guarded for fear of screwing up the timeline in completely irrevocable ways, a habit he has kept even after such drastic measures were no longer necessary. That isn't to say that he keeps secrets flawlessly; he does slip up every now and then, just with the smaller things that he doesn't necessarily think to hide. Calling him an extremist would not be too much of an exaggeration, as he has knowingly put even the ones he loves into dangerous situations. He overestimates his own abilities and does not always account for all the ways something could go wrong. He is not above violence to solve magical problems. Being attacked and vanquishing demons is the norm in a witch's life, but Chris is pushed even further than that and kills three Valkyries in order to help the sisters and keep his plans somewhat on-track, though notably not without remorse. He does some of the more reprehensible things only because he has to, and has learned to put his own wants behind those needs. Killing innocents (humans without powers or actual investment in the magical world) is a step that even Chris won't take.
Stranded in a time where his family had no idea they were dealing with their future son and nephew put an extreme strain on Chris. He dove into his work to find whatever demon had turned Wyatt, his usual drive and dedication pumped up to 11 until that race against time was the only goal at that point in his life — for the time he was in 2004, he had no one to lean on, nor anyone who genuinely cared enough to make him take a proper break. Stress was the name of the game.
Revealing himself to his family in the past and finally receiving some of the love and attention he had been missing his entire adult life has helped him put a lid on many of his more negative eccentricities and mellow out, but you can’t get rid of a lifetime of neuroticism with a little family love. Looking beyond his usual attitude, Chris reveals himself to be a kind (if often misguided) and compassionate individual. He is extremely loyal to those he trusts (though said loyalty is hard-earned for anyone not named "Halliwell") and will often be there to help anyone inside that circle.
Keeping secrets is a natural part of any witch's life, hiding one's own magic in order to keep from exposing magic. Even though any sort of magical being has to make sure not to reveal itself to the nonmagical community, that doesn't mean magic isn't a humongous part of their lives, and Chris is no exception. Unlike his mother and aunts, whose powers were bound until their young adulthood, Chris was born into his powers and the freedom they gave him (orbing especially). What little power he had (in comparison to Wyatt, anyway) is extremely important to him; without them, he wouldn't be half the person he grew up as, the one who can travel across the world in seconds, move objects with the flick of his hand, or (most importantly) save lives with a handy-dandy rhyme or well-brewed potion. Even if he loses his powers sometimes (and in his family, it's bound to have happened once or twice), he still bounces back with the knowledge that he is magic and his powers and experiences set him apart from so many others.
'Personal gain' is the concept that if magic is ever used to help oneself instead of to help others (such as rigging the lottery or conjuring yourself a super-nice car), the magic will backfire in some way. Although Chris certainly toes the line, an ingrained respect for magic keeps him from outright abusing it — although that doesn't mean he won't use magic to his advantage if the opportunity presents itself or if he's desperate enough. He's a little dumb like that.
Plans: Chris can be a very active participant in a lot of things, especially when it comes to trying to solve a large problem. His involvement with the Observatory would likely be minimal at the start, as he would be more thoroughly occupied with trying to save his home timeline than running the NPEC's errands and would petition for Nhadala to keep his Window open at least until his birthday (two months from the point in canon I'm bringing him from) — when he knows whether he'll have failed or succeeded his mission. After that, the idea is for Chris to escape his canonical death at the hands of Gideon thanks to his dæmon and eventually return home to 2026, where he will ask his family to help him move the Window forward in time in order to maintain all of his obligations. From there, he'll be totally freeform as far as canon goes and much less rigid in what needs to happen with him. And, of course, there will be plenty of time for player plots in between all of that drama as he splits his time between home and Cittàgazze.
DÆMON
Name: Etana
Sex: Female
Form: Darwin's fox (Lycalopex fulvipes)
Additional notes: She does not possess or control any of Chris's magic. However, she is able to subconsciously orb with Chris regardless of physical contact to avoid any accidental splinching or intercision.
Why this form: Based off of this list, foxes in general fit Chris's temperament to a T. He is something of a quiet and sneaky person through his very nature, not at all incapable of defending himself but appearing to be nothing special. While many of his traits coincide with a canine or lupine (his extreme loyalty, his lone-wolf tendencies), that isn't the end-all, be-all of Chris and would rather throw people off from assigning him these traits in the first place — which is part of his intention. He is highly adaptable, difficult to pin down and guarded in his personal affairs. While a fox might seem cliché, I can't think of a better fit for someone like Chris and would rather keep it simple than reach out to find something unique that doesn't fit nearly as well.