Prudence "Prue" Halliwell is the tritagonist of the Charmed franchise. She is one of the three main protagonists of the first three seasons of the original series, one of the four main protagonists of the Season 9 comic and the main antagonist of the sequel Season 10. Prue is the oldest daughter of Patty Halliwell and Victor Bennett, the older sister of Piper and Phoebe Halliwell, the half sister of Paige Matthews and the granddaughter of Penny and Allen Halliwell.
She was originally a witch and a member of the Charmed Ones, making her a heroic witch with a powerful light magic in the fight between Good and Evil. She had always been regarded as the bravest and most powerful of the four sisters, to the extent that she was granted the nicknames "Super Witch" and "Wicca Wonder".
In addition with being the sister-in-law of Leo Wyatt, posthunously, Prue became a sister-in-law to Paige's husband Henry Mitchell and Phoebe's husband Coop Halliwell. Through her sisters and their spouses, Prue became an aunt through Wyatt, Christopher and Melinda via Leo and Piper, Kat, Tamara, Henry Jr via Paige and Henry, and Phoebe and Coop's children, Prudence Johanna (who was named after her), Parker and Peyton.
Background[]
Biography[]
Prudence "Prue" Halliwell was the oldest of the four Halliwell sisters, taking care of her younger sisters Piper and Phoebe. Her Wiccan powers were focused on mind and movement: the ability to move objects with her mind, and the ability to project herself in an astral form. Besides this, Prue possessed the basic powers of a witch: the ability to cast spells, brew potions and scry for lost objects or people. She could also access The Power of Three, the collective power of the Charmed Ones.
Prue worked as a successful photo journalist at 415 Magazine, a career she wanted to pursue since her youth, but had given up until being introduced to the world of magic made her realize that her dreams were worth fighting for.
Despite her formidable powers and sharp intellect, Prue was tragically murdered on May 17, 2001, in her own home by the Source of All Evil's personal assassin, Shax, which temporarily severed The Power of Three altogether.
For years, her sisters thought that she was living happily in the afterlife with Andy, their mother and grandmother, though they were eventually told that Prue had been reincarnated. However, Prue had actually disappeared and Patty gave Cole Turner the task of finding her.[3] Cole eventually discovered that Prue had inhabited the body of a comatose witch, and taken the identity of Patience. As Patience, Prue lived in Salem, Massachusetts and runs "Salem Witch House", a tourist attraction.
Though Prue initially chose to keep her distance from her sisters out of fear of the cataclysmic consequences, she eventually decided to return to San Francisco when her youngest sister, Paige Matthews, arrived in search of a candidate for Magic School who worked at "Salem Witch House", and was happily reunited with Piper and Phoebe.
Ultimately, after vanquishing the Darklighter Rennek and absorbing the Empyreal Sword, the Grimoire and the All into herself, she became the host and the connection between Earth to the Upper Regions and to the Underworld. Over the course of the year, she began to pose a threat to her family and eventually, despite her best intentions and efforts, became a calamity to mankind before she rejoined her family in the afterlife.
Powers and abilities[]
Basic Powers[]
- Spell Casting: The ability to cast spells and perform rituals.
- Potion Brewing: The ability to brew potions.
- Scrying: The ability to locate a person or object by use of a scrying crystal, a map, and sometimes other tools.
- Mediumship: The ability to see and commune with spirits of the dead.
Active Powers[]
- Telekinesis: The ability to move objects and beings with the mind.
- Telematerialization: The ability to use telekinesis to teleport liquids.
- Deviation: The ability to use a power to deflect magical energies and objects back in the direction they came from.
- Enhanced Agility: The ability to enhance one's physical agility, speed, and balance.
- Super Strength: The power to exert a level of physical strength much greater than that of a normal person.
- Advanced Telekinesis: The power to produce powerful waves of telekinetic energy and to use telekinesis with potentially explosive force.
- Astral Projection: The ability to project the consciousness in an astral form outside of the body.
Former Powers[]
Banshee Sensing: Only dogs can hear the sound of a banshee's call. During Prue's time as a dog after asking a Banshee tracking spell, she had the canine ability to sense a banshee by tracking it down through sight and smell. She hunted down the unnamed banshee while helping saving a teenage girl, and later, tracked down a Banshee-turned Phoebe with relative ease. However, the Banshee tracking spell over Prue faded after Phoebe confronted the source of her pain, Cole (as she turned into the demon through the heartbreak when he betrayed her she get sisters). It turned Prue human once more, making her loose this ability.
Trivia[]
- When Wyatt was thought to be a girl, Piper considered naming her after Prue. Eventually, Phoebe's daughter and Piper's granddaughter (Prue 's niece and great-niece) were named after her.
- Prior to her death, many people saw Prue as the most powerful Halliwell sister. Even Prue's half-sister, Paige, felt she could never live up to her older sister's name, developing an inferior complex. However, she seems to have grown out of it.
- Prue has a very similar history with her nephew Chris: they're both stern and business-like, and have strained relationships with their fathers. They were both rested by their grandparents as well when their mother died (in the original Chris's dark future.
- Prue was named after her ancestor's daughter, Prudence Warren. Ironically, in turn, Phoebe's daughter, PJ and Piper's granddaughter were named after Prue.
- Had Wyatt been born a girl, Piper was going to name her child Prudence Melinda after her older sister and their ancestor Melinda Warren
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