The CO's Powers

[Harrison]

P O W E R S

Alright, as we all know, the Charmed Ones all possessed unique abilities which grew and evolved over the course of the series:

Prue - Telekinesis --> Astral Projection

Piper - Molecular Immobilization --> Molecular Combustion

Phoebe - Premonition --> Empathy | Levitation

Paige - Telekinetic-Orbing --> Orbing | Glamouring | Healing | Sensing | Telepathic-Connection with charges

So feel free to discuss their current powers shown in the show, anything to do with them, and/or about future advancements for any of the sisters.[/i]

[atlan]

What I think would be neat for Piper is an expansion of her combustion power that works like chain lightning. That is it jumps from one target to another.

Here is how I did it in my current story on another board:

Colorado: All of the remaining vampires had now surrounded Piper, Leo, the Chief and some security guards. Piper had blown dozens of vamps to bits. Leo had discovered that combining his light and water generating abilities produced holy water and taken out a dozen himself, while the Chief took out a few with some special CONTROL ammo. However they were now hemmed into an underground garage behind some crates with over a hundred bloodsuckers.The vampires had assumed human form and one of them said, "First you die witch then the rest of these human cattle."

Piper boiling with rage responded, "You first, you bloodsucking bastard!" She directed her power and anger at the the vampire and he exploded, as did the two behind him, 4 more behind those, then the next 8 before a final 11 vamps popped like firecrackers clearing a quarter of the garage! The last vamp did leave half an arm behind though.

Everyone stared at Piper in shock except Leo who said, "Chain reaction molecular combustion that wipes out all the bad guys until the attack runs out of energy. That's why the last one made a mess. Nice power advancement honey and it couldn't have come at a better time!"

Piper smirked stared at the vampires and said, "Now who was the cattle again?" The vampires turned to flee. They didn't get far! However as the last vamp died Piper discovered that her power advancement was not without cost. As her anger cooled a wave of dizziness swept over her. She felt a chill, staggered back into Leo, her vision went dark and she fainted!

[Harrison]

Wow. I liked how the pull of enormous energy ends in Piper fainting. I could definitely see that being a much more realistic trait of the power. At least at the beginning when she tries to get a handle on it.

I do agree that Piper would either have to learn to teleport/phase by splitting molecules in order to get a new power, otherwise she would just end up getting an advancement like you described above.

Your power makes sense though. Especially after how we saw something similar from Wyatt in "Imaginary Friends".

[atlan]

Thanks Potter, I'm glad you liked my idea.

[Terry]

Continuation of this discussion: shadowtales.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=gotopost&board=cd&thread=737&post=8233

Apr 14, 2010 14:11:19 GMT Temporal Death said:

I don't understand how it's a cancer, but I think I get what you're saying. Mind if we move this discussion to a new thread?

I know cancer seems pejorative, but I didn't mean to say the powers were a curse or anything. The only analogy I wanted to use was the removing effect: if you want to stop the cancer, you remove the tumor -- if you want to remove the Power of Three, you have to take out the "normal" powers that make them witches in the first place. The difference is you would never inject yourself with the cancerous tumor whereas demons wouldn't think twice before trying to absorb the powers and wield the collective Power.

[racer]

I love that idea Atlan. One Piper should receive since she was shown to blow up two demons with one flick.

Prue died so there's no need for new powers for her.

I think Piper should receive some type of pyrokinetic ability, like where she can move the molecules so fast that it combusts in flames rather than explode. She basically already has received this development since she was shown to light a fire down in the Underworld and has been shown setting fires rather then blowing up.

Phoebe's levitation was such a random power. The only reason why the writers wrote that in there was so she could have an active power. That spot could've easily been filled with a better, less expensive power. She only used it a few times. The thing that bothered me about Phoebe's empathy power was that she could use it to tap into other people's powers. The way to access powers is through emotions, even though Phoebe could read their emotions, she didn't have access to their power as she alone didn't possess them. Did that make since? Anyways, Phoebe's powers should develope with the eye since she could see into the future or past, maybe super sight or x-ray vision?

Paige has enough powers already through her Whitelighter side.

[Nerf]

Personally, I don't think Piper needs anymore powers. She has the two strongest powers, why does she need more?

Even though Phoebe's levitation was pretty random, I still love it. Luckily, she used it quite a bit in S4, my favorite season. I'm still ticked that she never got that power back on the show. I thought the perfect time to return the rest of her powers would have been in "Kill Billie, Vol. 2" where she was having that fight with Coop and told him that the most important thing right then was her sisters and the magical fight. Finally choosing destiny over love would have been a good reason to give her powers back, plus it could also be explained that they would need all their powers to fight Billie and Christy. Oh well. I hope she gets them back in the comic book.

But about her empathy power, I thought it made complete sense for her character and I also thought it made complete sense that she could tap into other people's powers. At least, at first. Later, when they started doing that deflection type thing... that didn't make any sense. As for another power... well I always thought that her gaining like a "spidey sense" type power, or extension of her premonition power, would be cool. Like she could sense imminent danger. However, they did sort of say she could do that in "Ordinary Witches."

Paige does have enough powers, but it would be nice to explore more of her Whitelighter side. Usually all she did would be to get some random charges that we would never see again and she would be bored and annoyed.

[atlan]

Apr 14, 2010 23:03:03 GMT racer said:

I love that idea Atlan. One Piper should receive since she was shown to blow up two demons with one flick.

Prue died so there's no need for new powers for her.

I think Piper should receive some type of pyrokinetic ability, like where she can move the molecules so fast that it combusts in flames rather than explode. She basically already has received this development since she was shown to light a fire down in the Underworld and has been shown setting fires rather then blowing up.

Phoebe's levitation was such a random power. The only reason why the writers wrote that in there was so she could have an active power. That spot could've easily been filled with a better, less expensive power. She only used it a few times. The thing that bothered me about Phoebe's empathy power was that she could use it to tap into other people's powers. The way to access powers is through emotions, even though Phoebe could read their emotions, she didn't have access to their power as she alone didn't possess them. Did that make since? Anyways, Phoebe's powers should develope with the eye since she could see into the future or past, maybe super sight or x-ray vision?

Paige has enough powers already through her Whitelighter side.

Thanks Racer, your idea for Piper sounds good too. I agree with you on Phoebe's empathy. Maybe she should get the kind of power she had in Morality Bites.

[Dom]

Well, Phoebe using her empathy to tap into people's powers, which were tied to their emotions, isn't that much of a stretch, considering Zach in Season 6 (Legend of Sleepy Halliwell) could tap into anyone's powers (Not just emotional) because of his telepathy. It makes sense, but I agree with the deflection thing. At first they portrayed it correctly, Phoebe being able to absorb and use Piper's TK when she was a valkerie, but when she could suddenly deflect energy/fire balls, it looked as if she had TK. Maybe, she was tapping into Paige's witch side? She was always around Paige when she did that, wasn't she?

[Nerf]

Actually, she did it in "Soul Sister." Paige was there, but she was technically dead at the time. It is an interesting thought, though. She certainly could have been tapping into Paige's witch side. Good way to explain it.

[racer]

Maybe I'm just thinking to hard?

Nice theory Dom.

Apr 15, 2010 4:40:06 GMT Nerf said:

Actually, she did it in "Soul Sister." Paige was there, but she was technically dead at the time. It is an interesting thought, though. She certainly could have been tapping into Paige's witch side. Good way to explain it.

Even though Paige was dead, her spirit was there. She still would've had her powers in that way, as shown by Grams countless times.

[Temporal Death]

Apr 14, 2010 23:03:03 GMT racer said:

Anyways, Phoebe's powers should develope with the eye since she could see into the future or past, maybe super sight or x-ray vision?

And OMFG, maybe optic blasts where she can shoot people down with laser eyebeams and then form a team called the X- I mean, the P-Men? I think the whole essence of magical powers is long lost.

Anyway, Nerf, what you said made me think about how lazy they were. They could have had her catch the fireballs and pitch them back... or something similar. I like Dom's explanation too.

Oh, also, has anyone, realised, Paige has only one witch power? Or like, half of it. If they were to advance her powers in a way, they should add on a related witch one.

Paige does have enough powers, but it would be nice to explore more of her Whitelighter side. Usually all she did would be to get some random charges that we would never see again and she would be bored and annoyed.

Witchlighter. Read it. For the first two or three chapters there are random ones, but then they stay, or come back.

And Terry, I'm still not getting the cancer anology, lol.

[Active Engaged]

Apr 15, 2010 8:05:03 GMT Temporal Death said:

Oh, also, has anyone, realised, Paige has only one witch power? Or like, half of it. If they were to advance her powers in a way, they should add on a related witch one.

I noticed that. But really there wasn't much the writers could have done to be honest, her powers needed to be tainted by her whitelighter side, and connected to telekinesis in some way.

Also, remember whitelighter shape-shifting? In Desperate housewitches (and other episodes) , they gave Paige witch shape-shifting, with the sparkly golden orbs instead of the simple shape change.

[Nerf]

I've always really liked tele-orbing, so that never bothered me. I thought they were quite creative, coming up with that. What I didn't like was that they started giving that power to other whitelighters/Elders. Kind of ruined the unique quality of Paige's power.

Speaking of, with the glamoring, it did kind of annoy me how later basically everyone could do it. They did that with several things. It kind of stripped the unique ability of separate powers. But oh well. Anyway, I think the main reason they changed the way Paige glamored was because the white lights cost less. With a morph, you have to match everything up. With the lights, they just cover the whole body and it's easy to make the switch.