Post by Chloe on Jul 8, 2006 18:15:48 GMT
Background
Piper Halliwell was born on August 7, 1973 [1] to Patricia Halliwell and Victor Bennet, their second child. 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. She is very caring and is the voice of reason in the trio of witches.
On March 24, 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/restaurant 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).
Revelation as a Charmed One
Once the Charmed lineage is revealed, Piper is initially shocked, and then disturbed by her new powers, scared that she may hurt someone. 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. Her power is initially triggered by panic and Piper had to make hand gestures to cause things to freeze or unfreeze. If Piper's hands were tied, 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 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).
Since her powers are based off of emotions, it is believed that Piper's combustion powers came around when she started getting more aggressive and confident.
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.
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).
Romantic Life
She has fallen in love with a ghost, a banker, a construction worker, a warlock and her Whitelighter and husband Leo Wyatt. They had broken up for sometime because their relationship could not work because of their conflicting destinies. Piper then sought out a normal relationship with a mortal, her next door neighbor Dan Gordon for almost a year before reuniting with Leo. During their entire relationship, Dan remained oblivious to the fact that Piper was a witch. He did eventually learn the truth. When he proved unable to handle the secret, Piper, with the help of a genie, had the information removed from Dan. Eventually the pair ended their relationship. Piper went on to reunite with Leo, while Dan moved away to further pursue his career. In a past life, as P. Baxter (cousin of Prue's past life P. Bowen and Phoebe's past life P. Russel), Piper had had to choose between Leo and Dan before, and eventually married Dan's past life Gordon Johnson (and eventually bore Penelope Halliwell). Thus, she is more or less her own great-grandmother.
Piper and Leo still had to deal with the consequences of their forbidden romance after getting back together. 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 after Cole exposed them to the magical community 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 Elders sent Patty back to Earth for the day to attend the wedding as a gift. Their marriage has produced three children; Wyatt Matthew Halliwell, Chris Halliwell, and Melinda Halliwell.
Professional Life
Piper originally worked as an accountant for a small bank in San Francisco before quitting her job to pursue her dream of being a professional chef. A few months later, Piper landed a job as a new chef under the tutelage of Chef Moore at a high quality restaurant Quake. Only a week or two pass before Piper’s boss leaves Quake and she is promptly promoted to restaurant manager.
However, Piper came to realize that she did not want to manage someone else’s restaurant but instead own and run her own place. Although it was no restaurant Piper did get a place of her own, a nightclub called P3. The club is named P3 after Piper, Prue and Phoebe and the Power of Three. Piper has run the place for seven years now, from the second to the final season of the series. However, during the last episode of Charmed, Forever Charmed, it is said that later Piper leaves, or perhaps just stops managing P3, and starts her own restaurant like she had always wanted to.
Charmed Life
Piper is the second eldest of the Charmed Ones and inherently one of the most powerful. Originally the middle sister of the trio of witches, while Prue acted as fearless lead witch and Phoebe was the eccentric spell-caster, Piper took up the reign as the moral compass of the Charmed Ones. As Prue was the master of the Book of Shadows pages and Phoebe was the master of spells, Piper quite naturally became the master of potions. Her abilities and skills as a chef loaned her an advantage in herb and spice usages in regards to potions.
Unlike her sisters, Piper has always been the most reluctant to embracing her destiny as a Charmed One. She is always craving some bit of normalcy in all of her relationships, refusing to allow magic to take precedence over every aspect of her life. This has become a somewhat major weakness, as demons and warlocks over the years have played on the fact that Piper wishes to just be normal in order to attempt to steal her powers or end her life.
During her early years as a witch Piper proved to be the sister most “unlucky in love” as she seemed to always fall for men she could not pursue a long term relationship with. A ghost, Mark Chao, had captured her heart very early on during her first year as a witch. However, the pair met each other too late because after Piper and her sisters brought forth justice for his death Mark had to move on into the afterlife. Later she met Leo Wyatt, a handyman hired to do odd jobs around the manor. She and Phoebe both competed for his affections, and although Piper won the gentleman’s heart Leo turned out to be a “guardian angel” to the Halliwells and was forbidden from pursuing a romantic relationship with his “charge." The pair parted ways, but this proved not to be the end of their whirlwind romance.
After more failed romances and demons and warlocks vanquished, Piper and Leo would eventually reunite and began a tenuous journey down the road toward marriage. After trials and tests to prove her dedication to her Charmed destiny and her love for Leo staying balanced Piper and her love were able to wed among family and friends at the home of the Halliwell Manor (it should be noted it took three attempts throughout season three for the couple to wed, proving the third time is the ‘’charm’’). After her marriage came new threats, new powers, and new loses. As a result of the show's action-packed third season finale Piper’s older sister Prue lost her life to the demonic assassin Shax.
The unexpected loss of a sister hit Piper and Phoebe hard. It proved more than anything that despite being the most powerful witches ever prophesized they were not invincible. Just weeks after Prue’s death Piper and Phoebe discovered that, surprisingly, the Charmed Ones could be reconstituted. The discovery of a long-lost half-sister, Paige Matthews, gave rise to a possibility of recreating the Charmed Ones. The Charmed prophecy calls for three sisters and with Paige the pair have reclaimed their third. With the addition of the youngest Halliwell – last name or not – Piper found herself taking on the mantle as eldest sister and agruably the most powerful of the Charmed Ones in regards to magical abilities.
Friction stirred between Piper and Paige and the new Charmed trio had a bit of a rocky start. It was not easy for this new dynamic to get along all the time. Slowly friendships formed and sisterly bonds ensued allowing the Charmed Ones to grow in power and become strong enough to vanquish the Source of All Evil in three separate incarnations during the show’s fourth year. Upon fulfilling their destiny of vanquishing the Source, Piper and her sisters were offered the opportunity to give up their magical lives in exchange for actual normal ones – no magic, no warlocks, no demons, and even no Elders. After much discussion and the chance to do what they do best, protect innocents, Piper, Phoebe and Paige declined the offer and soon after Piper discovered she was pregnant with her first child.
After battling many more demons and some mythical creatures as well as dealing with the growing powers of her unborn child Piper was diagnosed with toxemia, during her third trimester. 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 – a prophesized twice-blessed child with tremendous magical powers and the apparent heir to King Arthur’s sword Excalibur. Like any nervous new mother Piper was afraid to leave her baby when she and Phoebe had to find out who placed a bounty on him. She proved her strength as a witch to be reckoned with by vanquishing many demons and sending out a message that any demon who wished to harm her child will be promptly vanquished. Afterwards she named him Wyatt Matthew Halliwell, after his father and aunt Paige.
Months after the birth of Wyatt, the Charmed Ones met Chris Perry, a Whitelighter from the future who came back to help them defeat the ancient Titans – ancient gods imprisoned by mortals the Elders bestowed godlike power upon…the Olympian gods. Piper, like her sisters, was transformed into a Greek goddess in order to defeat the Titans. Piper was 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. She almost single handedly vanquished the Titans with help from her sisters and her emotional state threw the city into a big brewing storm. She confronted Leo in the heavens about abandoning their family, but eventually both of them realized that Leo needed to act for the sake of the greater good. Most Elders were killed by the return of the Titans and Leo was needed to help restore order amongst them as a new founding leader.
Chris became the girls’ new Whitelighter and Piper sought to live a life as a single mother. Piper and Leo separated and she began to pursue relationships with mortal suitors, most notably a fireman named Greg who she dated for some time. Chris later reveals he came from the future to also protect Wyatt from a dangerous evil force that will not reveal itself for a full year. When contacted by the Lady of Lake, Piper and her sisters found themselves taking up her mantle as protector of Excalibur when a demon kills the Lady. While the sword was being safeguarded by the girls Piper was able to pull Excalibur out of the Stone, and Mordaunt (a trainer of Exacalibur's owner) had manipulated her to enlist a few demons to become her knights, so he can steal their powers to take control of Excaliber and kill the real owner of the sword, Wyatt. Piper and her sisters were able to stop him, and decided to put the sword someplace safe until Wyatt's eighteenth birthday.
Another hardship that year came 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. A few weeks later 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. After being freed and 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. He left his family to live their lives in the mortal world while he lived out his in the heavens. When Piper learned she was again pregnant, she felt that she could not tell Leo about their new son because he had finally been able to accept his new destiny.
During her pregnancy the truth came out that the sisters’ latest Whitelighter Chris was in fact Piper and Leo’s second child whom she was carrying. Phoebe was the first to discover this and Leo was the last. Together, the entire family worked to aid Chris in finding out what great evil turned Wyatt into an evil tyrant in Chris’ future. Piper had decided to go to Magic School, a safe place for young witches to develop their powers, while she was pregnant since she didn't have a protective field as she did with Wyatt. While at the school demons couldn't attack her or young Wyatt while she carried out her pregnancy and tried to help identify the threat after her first-born. The idea of Wyatt being threatened drew Piper and Leo closer together.
Piper went into labor with Chris and she was losing a lot of blood, but she was able to deliver Chris. With Chris born, Piper and Leo could finally be a family once again. Discovering an Elder, Gideon, was the threat after baby Wyatt, Leo killed Gideon. The consequences of this led him and Piper to become even closer, especially when Leo became a rogue Elder after killing a fellow Elder while he had temporarily gone mad.
While keeping Leo's actions secret, 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. Some months later Piper could not understand how Leo could make such a tremendous comeback from his grief of killing an innocent Elder, 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. With his Avatar kind, Leo and the sisters created a world of peace but it had deadly consequences.
But after the world of the Avatars failed, Leo had to deal with the Elder punishment and he was once again taken away from his family to endure a trial. He had to determine if his destiny lay with his family or the other Elders. In the 150th episode, Piper received help in the form of Phoebe's 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 by proving that their love conquered all. Soon a new threat came on the horizon, Zankou, a powerful demon imprisoned by the Source hundred of years ago who sought to bring order to the Underworld and to destroy Piper and her sisters.
After months of fierce battles and even losing possession of the manor and the Book of Shadows, Piper and her sisters destroyed Zankou and the Nexus at the end of their seventh year as witches (Paige's fourth year). Piper and the sisters seemingly died in the final battle with Zankou. The mortal world, the underworld and the Elders believed Piper and her sisters to be dead, while this was the sisters' chance to finally get a normal life. Piper transformed her face and took up the alias of Jenny Bennet, only her loved being able to see her as she was. However, Piper's new look matched someone else who was wrongly wanted for murder. After clearing her lookalike's name Piper had to change her look and get a new name, Jamie Bennet. Eventually Piper and her sisters realized that hiding from their true selves was a mistake. After a plot that involved the Department of Homeland Security to explain her sudden return from the grave, Piper returned to her real name and old life.
Despite having been through hell and back in their relationship Leo did not adapt to being a mortal married to one of the most powerful witches in magical history. Yet even going to a magical marriage counselor did not turn out as well as they had hoped. Their counselor needed them to see how each of their lives are in order to get them more close to watch other, in order to do which the counselor had them switch bodies in order to walk a mile in each other's shoes.
Just when things seemed to finally get on track with her marriage, her career, and her family the Angel of Death came to Piper to warn her that Leo's time was coming. While Piper figured out a way to prevent Leo's death, it involved having Leo frozen. An Angel of Destiny told Piper and her sisters that they have another battle to fight and Leo's death would have motivated them to fight it. A bargain was made for Leo's life, if Piper and her sisters can win this ultimate battle, 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 also avoided demon fighting. Piper did everything in her power to bring Leo back and when she and her sisters found out that the Jenkins sisters, Billie and Christy, were the ones they had to fight, she was the most determined to take the battle on. As the magical community was turned against the Halliwells, Piper had to escape with her sisters. Teaming up with two demons and utilizing the power of the Hollow, the sisters vanquished the spirit-form remains of the Triad and turned against the Jenkins sisters, also possessed by the Hollow. The battle ended with the survival of Piper and Billie and the deaths of Paige, Phoebe and Christy.
After the battle the Angel of Destiny returned with Leo. Piper, however, was desperate to solve the situation, resulting in her asking a cupid, Coop, to lend her his ring with which time travel is possible in order to find love. With the ring, Piper collects the 1975 self of her mother and the 1982 self of her grandmother to banish the Hollow's destructive power from the battle against Christy and Billie. In the end, Billie realizes that she was on the wrong path and defends the Halliwells from Christy by reversing her firepower, resulting in Christy's death.
With the destruction of all the strong demons of the past, the sisters can finally return to having normal lives. Piper and Leo's marriage returns to peace and they soon have a third child, Melinda. Piper also opens a restaurant. The story ends with an elderly Piper reading the events of the past from the Book of Shadows to her granddaughter. After Piper leaves with Leo to rest, more children enter the manor and we get to know them as more of Piper's grandchildren. Piper's granddaughter closes the door with her telekinetic powers, ending the story of Piper Halliwell and the Charmed Ones.
Deaths Count
During the run of the series and her life as a Charmed One, Piper died 9 times.
Episode Episode Name Cause Of Death Revival
1x22 Deja Vú All Over Again Killed by an energy ball thrown by demon Rodriguez. After time was reset.
2x12 Awakened A terminal disease. Leo healed her when she was about to cross over.
3x09 Coyote Piper Killed by Prue in order to get a spirit out of her body. A possesed Leo revived her.
3x22 All Hell Breaks Loose Killed by a crazy wiccan practitioner, who felt she was evil. After time was reset.
4x17 Saving Private Leo Piper allowed herself to die to recite the ghost vanquishing spell. Leo healed her before her spirit could move on.
6x15 I Dream of Phoebe A demon wished on a genie for her to die. Leo healed her when she was about to cross over.
7x05 Styx Feet Under The Angel Of Death killed her and gave her the job of collecting souls. The Angel Of Death returned to doing his job.
7x07 Someone To Witch Over Killed by a demon. Leo revived her after he became an Avatar.
7x16 The Seven Year Witch Put in a coma by a group of demons. Her son Wyatt healed her before her spirit could move on.
Piper Halliwell was born on August 7, 1973 [1] to Patricia Halliwell and Victor Bennet, their second child. 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. She is very caring and is the voice of reason in the trio of witches.
On March 24, 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/restaurant 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).
Revelation as a Charmed One
Once the Charmed lineage is revealed, Piper is initially shocked, and then disturbed by her new powers, scared that she may hurt someone. 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. Her power is initially triggered by panic and Piper had to make hand gestures to cause things to freeze or unfreeze. If Piper's hands were tied, 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 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).
Since her powers are based off of emotions, it is believed that Piper's combustion powers came around when she started getting more aggressive and confident.
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.
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).
Romantic Life
She has fallen in love with a ghost, a banker, a construction worker, a warlock and her Whitelighter and husband Leo Wyatt. They had broken up for sometime because their relationship could not work because of their conflicting destinies. Piper then sought out a normal relationship with a mortal, her next door neighbor Dan Gordon for almost a year before reuniting with Leo. During their entire relationship, Dan remained oblivious to the fact that Piper was a witch. He did eventually learn the truth. When he proved unable to handle the secret, Piper, with the help of a genie, had the information removed from Dan. Eventually the pair ended their relationship. Piper went on to reunite with Leo, while Dan moved away to further pursue his career. In a past life, as P. Baxter (cousin of Prue's past life P. Bowen and Phoebe's past life P. Russel), Piper had had to choose between Leo and Dan before, and eventually married Dan's past life Gordon Johnson (and eventually bore Penelope Halliwell). Thus, she is more or less her own great-grandmother.
Piper and Leo still had to deal with the consequences of their forbidden romance after getting back together. 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 after Cole exposed them to the magical community 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 Elders sent Patty back to Earth for the day to attend the wedding as a gift. Their marriage has produced three children; Wyatt Matthew Halliwell, Chris Halliwell, and Melinda Halliwell.
Professional Life
Piper originally worked as an accountant for a small bank in San Francisco before quitting her job to pursue her dream of being a professional chef. A few months later, Piper landed a job as a new chef under the tutelage of Chef Moore at a high quality restaurant Quake. Only a week or two pass before Piper’s boss leaves Quake and she is promptly promoted to restaurant manager.
However, Piper came to realize that she did not want to manage someone else’s restaurant but instead own and run her own place. Although it was no restaurant Piper did get a place of her own, a nightclub called P3. The club is named P3 after Piper, Prue and Phoebe and the Power of Three. Piper has run the place for seven years now, from the second to the final season of the series. However, during the last episode of Charmed, Forever Charmed, it is said that later Piper leaves, or perhaps just stops managing P3, and starts her own restaurant like she had always wanted to.
Charmed Life
Piper is the second eldest of the Charmed Ones and inherently one of the most powerful. Originally the middle sister of the trio of witches, while Prue acted as fearless lead witch and Phoebe was the eccentric spell-caster, Piper took up the reign as the moral compass of the Charmed Ones. As Prue was the master of the Book of Shadows pages and Phoebe was the master of spells, Piper quite naturally became the master of potions. Her abilities and skills as a chef loaned her an advantage in herb and spice usages in regards to potions.
Unlike her sisters, Piper has always been the most reluctant to embracing her destiny as a Charmed One. She is always craving some bit of normalcy in all of her relationships, refusing to allow magic to take precedence over every aspect of her life. This has become a somewhat major weakness, as demons and warlocks over the years have played on the fact that Piper wishes to just be normal in order to attempt to steal her powers or end her life.
During her early years as a witch Piper proved to be the sister most “unlucky in love” as she seemed to always fall for men she could not pursue a long term relationship with. A ghost, Mark Chao, had captured her heart very early on during her first year as a witch. However, the pair met each other too late because after Piper and her sisters brought forth justice for his death Mark had to move on into the afterlife. Later she met Leo Wyatt, a handyman hired to do odd jobs around the manor. She and Phoebe both competed for his affections, and although Piper won the gentleman’s heart Leo turned out to be a “guardian angel” to the Halliwells and was forbidden from pursuing a romantic relationship with his “charge." The pair parted ways, but this proved not to be the end of their whirlwind romance.
After more failed romances and demons and warlocks vanquished, Piper and Leo would eventually reunite and began a tenuous journey down the road toward marriage. After trials and tests to prove her dedication to her Charmed destiny and her love for Leo staying balanced Piper and her love were able to wed among family and friends at the home of the Halliwell Manor (it should be noted it took three attempts throughout season three for the couple to wed, proving the third time is the ‘’charm’’). After her marriage came new threats, new powers, and new loses. As a result of the show's action-packed third season finale Piper’s older sister Prue lost her life to the demonic assassin Shax.
The unexpected loss of a sister hit Piper and Phoebe hard. It proved more than anything that despite being the most powerful witches ever prophesized they were not invincible. Just weeks after Prue’s death Piper and Phoebe discovered that, surprisingly, the Charmed Ones could be reconstituted. The discovery of a long-lost half-sister, Paige Matthews, gave rise to a possibility of recreating the Charmed Ones. The Charmed prophecy calls for three sisters and with Paige the pair have reclaimed their third. With the addition of the youngest Halliwell – last name or not – Piper found herself taking on the mantle as eldest sister and agruably the most powerful of the Charmed Ones in regards to magical abilities.
Friction stirred between Piper and Paige and the new Charmed trio had a bit of a rocky start. It was not easy for this new dynamic to get along all the time. Slowly friendships formed and sisterly bonds ensued allowing the Charmed Ones to grow in power and become strong enough to vanquish the Source of All Evil in three separate incarnations during the show’s fourth year. Upon fulfilling their destiny of vanquishing the Source, Piper and her sisters were offered the opportunity to give up their magical lives in exchange for actual normal ones – no magic, no warlocks, no demons, and even no Elders. After much discussion and the chance to do what they do best, protect innocents, Piper, Phoebe and Paige declined the offer and soon after Piper discovered she was pregnant with her first child.
After battling many more demons and some mythical creatures as well as dealing with the growing powers of her unborn child Piper was diagnosed with toxemia, during her third trimester. 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 – a prophesized twice-blessed child with tremendous magical powers and the apparent heir to King Arthur’s sword Excalibur. Like any nervous new mother Piper was afraid to leave her baby when she and Phoebe had to find out who placed a bounty on him. She proved her strength as a witch to be reckoned with by vanquishing many demons and sending out a message that any demon who wished to harm her child will be promptly vanquished. Afterwards she named him Wyatt Matthew Halliwell, after his father and aunt Paige.
Months after the birth of Wyatt, the Charmed Ones met Chris Perry, a Whitelighter from the future who came back to help them defeat the ancient Titans – ancient gods imprisoned by mortals the Elders bestowed godlike power upon…the Olympian gods. Piper, like her sisters, was transformed into a Greek goddess in order to defeat the Titans. Piper was 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. She almost single handedly vanquished the Titans with help from her sisters and her emotional state threw the city into a big brewing storm. She confronted Leo in the heavens about abandoning their family, but eventually both of them realized that Leo needed to act for the sake of the greater good. Most Elders were killed by the return of the Titans and Leo was needed to help restore order amongst them as a new founding leader.
Chris became the girls’ new Whitelighter and Piper sought to live a life as a single mother. Piper and Leo separated and she began to pursue relationships with mortal suitors, most notably a fireman named Greg who she dated for some time. Chris later reveals he came from the future to also protect Wyatt from a dangerous evil force that will not reveal itself for a full year. When contacted by the Lady of Lake, Piper and her sisters found themselves taking up her mantle as protector of Excalibur when a demon kills the Lady. While the sword was being safeguarded by the girls Piper was able to pull Excalibur out of the Stone, and Mordaunt (a trainer of Exacalibur's owner) had manipulated her to enlist a few demons to become her knights, so he can steal their powers to take control of Excaliber and kill the real owner of the sword, Wyatt. Piper and her sisters were able to stop him, and decided to put the sword someplace safe until Wyatt's eighteenth birthday.
Another hardship that year came 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. A few weeks later 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. After being freed and 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. He left his family to live their lives in the mortal world while he lived out his in the heavens. When Piper learned she was again pregnant, she felt that she could not tell Leo about their new son because he had finally been able to accept his new destiny.
During her pregnancy the truth came out that the sisters’ latest Whitelighter Chris was in fact Piper and Leo’s second child whom she was carrying. Phoebe was the first to discover this and Leo was the last. Together, the entire family worked to aid Chris in finding out what great evil turned Wyatt into an evil tyrant in Chris’ future. Piper had decided to go to Magic School, a safe place for young witches to develop their powers, while she was pregnant since she didn't have a protective field as she did with Wyatt. While at the school demons couldn't attack her or young Wyatt while she carried out her pregnancy and tried to help identify the threat after her first-born. The idea of Wyatt being threatened drew Piper and Leo closer together.
Piper went into labor with Chris and she was losing a lot of blood, but she was able to deliver Chris. With Chris born, Piper and Leo could finally be a family once again. Discovering an Elder, Gideon, was the threat after baby Wyatt, Leo killed Gideon. The consequences of this led him and Piper to become even closer, especially when Leo became a rogue Elder after killing a fellow Elder while he had temporarily gone mad.
While keeping Leo's actions secret, 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. Some months later Piper could not understand how Leo could make such a tremendous comeback from his grief of killing an innocent Elder, 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. With his Avatar kind, Leo and the sisters created a world of peace but it had deadly consequences.
But after the world of the Avatars failed, Leo had to deal with the Elder punishment and he was once again taken away from his family to endure a trial. He had to determine if his destiny lay with his family or the other Elders. In the 150th episode, Piper received help in the form of Phoebe's 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 by proving that their love conquered all. Soon a new threat came on the horizon, Zankou, a powerful demon imprisoned by the Source hundred of years ago who sought to bring order to the Underworld and to destroy Piper and her sisters.
After months of fierce battles and even losing possession of the manor and the Book of Shadows, Piper and her sisters destroyed Zankou and the Nexus at the end of their seventh year as witches (Paige's fourth year). Piper and the sisters seemingly died in the final battle with Zankou. The mortal world, the underworld and the Elders believed Piper and her sisters to be dead, while this was the sisters' chance to finally get a normal life. Piper transformed her face and took up the alias of Jenny Bennet, only her loved being able to see her as she was. However, Piper's new look matched someone else who was wrongly wanted for murder. After clearing her lookalike's name Piper had to change her look and get a new name, Jamie Bennet. Eventually Piper and her sisters realized that hiding from their true selves was a mistake. After a plot that involved the Department of Homeland Security to explain her sudden return from the grave, Piper returned to her real name and old life.
Despite having been through hell and back in their relationship Leo did not adapt to being a mortal married to one of the most powerful witches in magical history. Yet even going to a magical marriage counselor did not turn out as well as they had hoped. Their counselor needed them to see how each of their lives are in order to get them more close to watch other, in order to do which the counselor had them switch bodies in order to walk a mile in each other's shoes.
Just when things seemed to finally get on track with her marriage, her career, and her family the Angel of Death came to Piper to warn her that Leo's time was coming. While Piper figured out a way to prevent Leo's death, it involved having Leo frozen. An Angel of Destiny told Piper and her sisters that they have another battle to fight and Leo's death would have motivated them to fight it. A bargain was made for Leo's life, if Piper and her sisters can win this ultimate battle, 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 also avoided demon fighting. Piper did everything in her power to bring Leo back and when she and her sisters found out that the Jenkins sisters, Billie and Christy, were the ones they had to fight, she was the most determined to take the battle on. As the magical community was turned against the Halliwells, Piper had to escape with her sisters. Teaming up with two demons and utilizing the power of the Hollow, the sisters vanquished the spirit-form remains of the Triad and turned against the Jenkins sisters, also possessed by the Hollow. The battle ended with the survival of Piper and Billie and the deaths of Paige, Phoebe and Christy.
After the battle the Angel of Destiny returned with Leo. Piper, however, was desperate to solve the situation, resulting in her asking a cupid, Coop, to lend her his ring with which time travel is possible in order to find love. With the ring, Piper collects the 1975 self of her mother and the 1982 self of her grandmother to banish the Hollow's destructive power from the battle against Christy and Billie. In the end, Billie realizes that she was on the wrong path and defends the Halliwells from Christy by reversing her firepower, resulting in Christy's death.
With the destruction of all the strong demons of the past, the sisters can finally return to having normal lives. Piper and Leo's marriage returns to peace and they soon have a third child, Melinda. Piper also opens a restaurant. The story ends with an elderly Piper reading the events of the past from the Book of Shadows to her granddaughter. After Piper leaves with Leo to rest, more children enter the manor and we get to know them as more of Piper's grandchildren. Piper's granddaughter closes the door with her telekinetic powers, ending the story of Piper Halliwell and the Charmed Ones.
Deaths Count
During the run of the series and her life as a Charmed One, Piper died 9 times.
Episode Episode Name Cause Of Death Revival
1x22 Deja Vú All Over Again Killed by an energy ball thrown by demon Rodriguez. After time was reset.
2x12 Awakened A terminal disease. Leo healed her when she was about to cross over.
3x09 Coyote Piper Killed by Prue in order to get a spirit out of her body. A possesed Leo revived her.
3x22 All Hell Breaks Loose Killed by a crazy wiccan practitioner, who felt she was evil. After time was reset.
4x17 Saving Private Leo Piper allowed herself to die to recite the ghost vanquishing spell. Leo healed her before her spirit could move on.
6x15 I Dream of Phoebe A demon wished on a genie for her to die. Leo healed her when she was about to cross over.
7x05 Styx Feet Under The Angel Of Death killed her and gave her the job of collecting souls. The Angel Of Death returned to doing his job.
7x07 Someone To Witch Over Killed by a demon. Leo revived her after he became an Avatar.
7x16 The Seven Year Witch Put in a coma by a group of demons. Her son Wyatt healed her before her spirit could move on.
shes just an excellent actress talented and witty.. And I want to marry her 
