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1. Player information
Name: DJ
Current characters: Sefton Lowell (polarisation), Zachary Finch (eternityunseen).
2. Character information
Name: Chris Halliwell
Username: greever
Fandom: Charmed (AU)
3. Character information II
Age / appearance: 23 years old. Chris stands at a respectable six feet 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... well. Yeah. Surprisingly, considering his lifestyle, he possesses only one noticeable scar: a fair-sized puncture near the center of his abdomen, a remnant of his fatal wound. It was healed over when he was pulled back to life.
In his ghost form (referred to as 'Phantom' or even 'Poltergeist' in public by Camilla or her friends to hide Chris's identity, going along with his family's theme of names starting with P), his coloration takes on a rather ghastly quality. His hair turns blond and his eyes a glowing, fierce red. He gains an ethereal, quiet echo to his voice. His outfit is fixed when in this form, a black jacket over a nicely-fitting dark red shirt, black pants and brown boots. As his ghost form was twisted by the world-shifting magic, much like how no one noticed when the worlds changed, identifying "Phantom" as Chris based on his voice or appearance alone is near impossible without prior knowledge or spiritual senses.
History: Since his wikia and wikipedia links are kind of a fanbrattish mess, I'll be writing this down on my own. 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. You should know once we've hit the AU, but I'll make it obvious when we get there anyway.
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 cut 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.
During the next episode demon-hunting experience, Chris ended up accidentally getting caught stealing a car (it was for a good cause, and totally the demon's fault). Initially Darryl, the family's cop-friend, got him out of jail, but then had a change of heart (being nearly executed a little while back might have something to do with it), and Chris ended up behind bars. In a surprising show of fatherly love, Leo offered to orb Chris out of jail and suddenly they were best of buds. Because that's totally how abolishing years and years of emotional issues and neglect works. Really!
Shortly before little Chris's due date, big Chris was beginning to panic. He and the sisters were beginning to consider that the one who turned Wyatt could actually be someone close to them, as Phoebe had been studying up on police statistics on crimes in the home. Chris was forced to explain that whatever happened to Wyatt happened before he was born, and that they were seriously running out of time. Gideon, who had overheard them getting startlingly close to the right track re: Wyatt, managed to get the sisters to focus on a series of witch-killings for the time being instead. Following a bunch of leads, Paige and Chris eventually saved a young witch from multiple demons attacking her, but not before her amulet was stolen. Seeing as it was a non-magical amulet, they were beginning to get very confused over the demons' strange actions. It wasn't until another demon was vanquished that the existence of Witch Wars was confirmed-a demonic, Survivor-type show that was gaining increasing popularity in the Underworld, where the winners would earn the powers of all the losers. Being the desperate, slimy Elder that he was, Gideon convinced the family that Witch Wars was a ploy building up to the producers stealing the Charmed Ones' powers, followed by Wyatt's. Thinking this a logical conclusion, they all focused their efforts and managed to pull Witch Wars off the air.
Chris's mission "complete" and Wyatt's safety "confirmed", the Halliwells soon began planning Chris's return to the future.
Only a few days before Chris's birthday, he was ready to go home. The police issued a warrant for his arrest (he did escape from jail, after all) seeing as Darryl still refused to help the sisters hide their magic, which made getting Chris home even more problematic. (What would happen if Chris went home and the cops showed up to arrest a newborn instead?) Regardless, the family said their goodbyes. Chris and Leo, who was chaperoning the time adventure in case of mishap at Gideon's urging, entered the portal... which had been sabotaged by Gideon to take them into an alternate reality, one made of Evil to balance out the Good world whence they came, instead of the future. Chris and Leo fled as soon as they realized their mistake - they attempted to contact the evil world's Darryl, only to be assaulted by the police and instead ran to the Underworld, now a place of peace and tranquility. There they met Barbas, the demon of hope, who is apparently just a creeper in any dimension. Phoebe and Paige (both Good and Evil flavors) showed up, had a standoff fight, and Barbas revealed that it was Gideon's hope to kill Wyatt. With Piper now in labor, Wyatt was completely unguarded. All of the Halliwells (and Leo) returned to the attic just in time to keep Gideon from murdering the baby.
With the "Power of Four", the Good versions were able to return to their world. Chris sent his and Leo's evil counterparts back before the portal closed and soon learned that their presences in each others' worlds had shifted the balance too far - the Good world was now too Good, every small infraction becoming capital offense. While the sisters went to check on Piper, Chris volunteered to watch after Wyatt while scrying for Gideon. Unfortunately for everyone, Piper (in the hospital by now) cast a spell on Paige and Phoebe to make them as happy and overly Good as everyone else in the world, making them... pretty damn useless in stopping Gideon. The girls left, Darryl tried arresting Chris for assaulting him (s'up evil!Chris, what'cha been up to?), and Chris magically punted him out the door. Leo left after getting an idea for tracking Gideon. This was, perhaps, a very, very big mistake.
Alone with Wyatt, Chris was made aware of another presence in the attic. When he attempted to retrieve his brother and leave for somewhere safer, Gideon appeared and stabbed Chris. By the time Leo arrived, it was too late - not only did Gideon make off with Wyatt, but Chris's wound was impossible to heal with magic thanks to the enchantment on the blade that stabbed him. Chris, on his deathbed, urged Leo to search for Gideon and Wyatt and save his brother before it was too late; even if Leo found Wyatt later, the trauma of being stuck in the Underworld for too long would be enough to turn him. Leo was reluctant, determined to save Chris, until he pointed out that finding Gideon in time would accomplish both goals if they could force him to reverse his magic. By the time Paige arrived to watch Chris in Leo's absence, the police had already arrived and were ready to take Chris into custody.
They were too late. Leo returned just in time to beg Chris to hold on and not give up, to which he simply returned with his final words that Leo should do the same. Here, Chris died, his body fading away in his father's arms.
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((This is where the universes (finally) diverge. In Charmed canon, Chris's death is the last we see of him. It's heavily implied that his memories live on in the Chris of the new timeline, yet nobody ever actually speaks of the old Chris to the new generation.))
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The AU truly begins when Leo went on to kill Gideon as the act of great evil in order to restore balance to the worlds. This great shift of both good and evil magic was enough to jolt Chris (whose soul was in limbo, waiting to join with his new self) back to life. Unfortunately, it was also enough to taint his soul in the process, giving it a warped look and solid form, and trapping him in a state of living ghostliness. When he came to, he was in New Orleans, Louisiana, and something was wrong. While he appeared human most of the time, he found himself occasionally fading into his ghost form, or otherwise accessing those powers without meaning to. Despite being more or less alive again, it felt like when he had been about to disappear from existence - although much more painful. In a stroke of either great luck or meddling fates, a clairvoyant witch had predicted his arrival and, assuming Chris (who introduced himself as Chris Perry, surprise of surprises) was an innocent, took him back to her place.
She introduced herself as Camilla, a witch who also practiced soothsaying. She usually used her powers to help settle the lost souls that gathered in the city - a "spiritual sinkhole", where lost souls gathered in great numbers - by finding out what could be used to calm them and entice them into the afterlife. Although Chris was quite the unique case, she was able to determine that Chris's magic was trying to escape from him and drag him back into the afterlife so that it could return to its true owner. (Unknown to Camilla, but easily guessed by Chris, this was his baby-self back in San Francisco who had not been tainted by the world-rebalancing magic, which his magic recognized as the real Chris more than it did its tainted owner.) As long as his magic remained unfettered, Chris would die again.
Camilla offered to write Chris a magic suppressing spell, one that would completely bury Chris's powers until his magic would come to recognize him as its rightful owner. Considering his options were either "powerless life" or "death", Chris went with the suppression spell. It was only after he had stripped his powers that they both came to realize something very, very important: his shifting in and out of the tangible plane hadn't been because he was on the verge of death, but instead because Chris had somehow merged with his own ghost, literally having become half-dead.
He took the news about as well as one might expect (read: yelling and denial, followed by shocked and perturbed silences). Camilla offered him a place to stay until they could sort the situation out. Obviously he couldn't use credit cards or anything that required ID if he was supposed to be a dead man, right? Unable to argue (and terrified of returning home), Chris accepted her offer for the time being. Over the next few weeks, he spent as much time as possible trying to learn to control his ghostly form and powers (more than just invisibility and phasing, he came to discover). He also met several of Camilla's friends: Peter, Liam and Raine. (All witches, although of them, only Peter had an active power: electrokinesis.) He avoided Camilla's whitelighter, Terry, whenever possible.
Not even three weeks later, Chris was dragged along to one of Camilla's exorcisms as an aide to pay her back for all his freeloading. When confronted with the ghost, it became violent and attacked the both of them. Chris jumped in with his new powers to beat the ghost back. After it was weakened enough, it disappeared, pulled into the mass collection of ambient spiritual energy at the center of the city, where it would hopefully take the time to reflect and move on to the afterlife from there. Unlikely, Camilla said, but definitely possible.
From then on, Chris used the violent ghosts as his training regime to get control of his powers, while he still accompanied Camilla to the exorcisms of more peaceful ghosts. Having landed himself in such a magically-rich culture, Chris decided to give himself one year to find a way to reintegrate his magic or return to the future before he would contact his family. His lack of magic and new, demonic-looking powers (along with the trauma of dying, coming back and the learning he was still thoroughly messed up) were enough make him wary of returning home in case of possible death or vanquishing.
Still, in the months that followed, Chris found himself dialing the manor and hanging up before anyone could answer. Not yet. He could solve this by himself without having to involve his family.
(Where I'm taking Chris from, it will have been three months since his revival, so about January, 2005.)
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.
At this point in his life, with all of his magic seemingly gone and replaced with powers straight from some twisted afterlife, Chris has to deal with the idea that the new timeline he worked so tirelessly to create might be something he won't get to see. Unconditional trust in his family is now confronted by an admittedly irrational fear that they won't be able to help him, or that they won't believe their son is who he says he is and would simply vanquish him on the spot. In a new town with a new, temporary goal, he tries to keep his new 'life' on track while desperately searching for a way to reintegrate his magic. To make matters worse, he has to deal with a bunch of strangers that have inserted themselves into his life, not to mention all of the ghosts that plague his new residence. Scared of what he'll find if he stops to think, he has once again fallen into old habits of abrasiveness and hyperfocus, leaving himself with little time to breathe, and even less to cope with his new traumas and figure out what he should eventually do with his third chance at life.
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.
Losing his magic in exchange for ghost powers has caused him no small amount of distress and a bit of an identity issue. He's still Chris, he knows that much, but who is he beyond someone who will help others and do what has to be done? He's not a Whitelighter, not a witch, just a half-dead man with some new and destructive capabilities. In some ways, this makes it easier for him to detach from his former life. In others, his resolve to do what comes naturally - that is, save innocents and help those that really need it - has been strengthened. The longer he stays in New Orleans, the less sure he is he'll be able to return home. His developing powers make it more and more apparent that he's changed into something that might no longer be welcome in the Halliwell manor as long as his old powers remain bound. His ghost powers present another unique challenge: being half-dead means he is half-free from the rules of the living, which also seems to include personal gain. Although he has yet to come up against a troubling enough situation that he's seriously considered it, the possibility for drastic power abuse is still there, knocking around inside his head. His only warnings against using his powers for the wrong reason are his conscience and the idea of what his family would say if he fell into the habit.
Sexual preferences / orientation: Chris loves the ladies. He made out with several during the first half of season six. Fortunately for me, real life tends to write television. Drew Fuller's girlfriend wasn't happy with how often the writers were having him make out with a bunch of women and complained.
Enter Bianca, his fiancée from the future. She was basically the writers' new excuse to push Chris into focusing on his mission after her death (in the same episode she was introduced, no less!) and to stop using sexuality as a tool in order to preserve her memory. Because yes, any instance of him making out with a woman in the show was prefaced by some sort of manipulation - he may have enjoyed it to some degree, but it wasn't done carelessly.
In the episode where Wyatt was temporarily erased from existence (along with his mission, and likely any reason he had for meeting Bianca), he had very few qualms in sleeping with a potential charge. Once Wyatt was restored to existence, Chris ended up turning down the potential charge's sexual advantages, and sent her away to be assigned to some other Whitelighter.
This evidence, coupled with his reaction to his fiancée's death later down the road, leads me to believe that he has no issue with one-night stands or dating in general. He is a strong believer in monogamy thanks to the values his mother and aunts raised him with. Betrayal hurts, but true love is beyond worth taking the risks. That romanticism has been a source of comfort and strength throughout his adulthood. If he were going to get into a serious relationship with someone, he would not cheat on her.
Now that Chris is faced with the possibility of not being able to integrate into the new timeline and meet Bianca again, thoughts of moving on and reaching out to someone else have entered his mind. He holds off, on the possibility that he'll be able to find a way to prove his identity to his family and gain their help in returning to his proper time.
Powers: After his death, Chris was pulled back to life by an extreme shift in magic, coupled with his unique situation in the timestream. The shifting magic kicked him back to life, while altering his spirit, allowing him access to his own ghost whenever he wants - although he isn't quite the standard ghost because of this and has gained a variety of powers. Most of these powers are, indeed, the standard for ghosts everywhere, only slightly different in that he can turn them on and off, more or less at will. These powers include: invisibility, intangibility, flight (up to about 150mph in ghost form, and 50mph in human form) and blasts of ectoplasm (either as ball or a stream). Due to the fact that he is still, technically, alive, Chris is unable to haunt other living beings and is just as susceptible to possession as he is capable of possessing others*.
While he can access most of his powers in human form, Chris is unable to use them to their full potential (aside from invisibility and intangibility, which are kind of just... on or off). Activating his powers while in human form, or even just when under emotional distress, will sometimes make his eyes to briefly glow red as he taps into his ghost half. In ghost form, the fact that he runs mostly off of his own energy more than any physical process grants him enhanced strength, stamina, agility and endurance. Actually injuring him in this form is quite difficult without using spiritual or magical means, but knocking him around until he simply can't hold onto his ghost form any longer is quite possible.
Obviously, many of these could be neutralized or warded against if someone were to look for the right technology or spells... and knew they needed to guard against a ghost in the first place.
His life as a magical being has given him a head start in learning to control these new powers, although he still has flubs where he might phase through a wall he's leaning on or turn invisible if he gets shy or frightened. As he continues to grow in his powers, this lack of control will be erased and, as he is still alive and growing, his powers may continue to evolve into things such as a personal shield or more sophisticated manipulation of his ectoplasmic energy. With the possibility of his magic reintegrating, his old powers may surface and eventually evolve into hybrid forms to work together with his ghost powers.
For the record, his old powers were orbing (a Whitelighter-specific type of teleportation), sensing the location of and hearing his charges' calls, telekinesis, telekinetic orbing, spellcasting, scrying and potion brewing. Being the son of a Charmed One, his innate power level is very strong. (Not that it means much to him when his brother is the single strongest force of good magic that will ever be and his mother and aunts are even stronger than that when together.) If any of these powers are to make an altered appearance at some point in the game, it would likely be orbing or telekinesis. Potion brewing and scrying may also return, although the ghostly tune of his voice would make spellcasting difficult and/or impossible no matter what.
Incidentally, he is inoculated against spider demon poison and, thanks to the blocking potion he drank early on, retains an immunity to empaths. Even with all of his powers, he is still half-human and that human side is no more resistant to damage than anyone else is; his ghost side means that he's susceptible to many of the things that would affect or draw in regular spirits or ghosts. The Whitelighter blood he still has makes him incredibly susceptible to Darklighter poison.
*Although Chris will most certainly use his ability for possession at varying points on unnamed NPCs, I don't think this will be an issue unless he tries it in a log with another player. All possible possessions will be hashed out OOC, and I will definitely take the option to have the city interfere and shove him out if it comes to that.
Name: DJ
Current characters: Sefton Lowell (polarisation), Zachary Finch (eternityunseen).
2. Character information
Name: Chris Halliwell
Username: greever
Fandom: Charmed (AU)
3. Character information II
Age / appearance: 23 years old. Chris stands at a respectable six feet 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... well. Yeah. Surprisingly, considering his lifestyle, he possesses only one noticeable scar: a fair-sized puncture near the center of his abdomen, a remnant of his fatal wound. It was healed over when he was pulled back to life.
In his ghost form (referred to as 'Phantom' or even 'Poltergeist' in public by Camilla or her friends to hide Chris's identity, going along with his family's theme of names starting with P), his coloration takes on a rather ghastly quality. His hair turns blond and his eyes a glowing, fierce red. He gains an ethereal, quiet echo to his voice. His outfit is fixed when in this form, a black jacket over a nicely-fitting dark red shirt, black pants and brown boots. As his ghost form was twisted by the world-shifting magic, much like how no one noticed when the worlds changed, identifying "Phantom" as Chris based on his voice or appearance alone is near impossible without prior knowledge or spiritual senses.
History: Since his wikia and wikipedia links are kind of a fanbrattish mess, I'll be writing this down on my own. 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. You should know once we've hit the AU, but I'll make it obvious when we get there anyway.
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 cut 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.
During the next episode demon-hunting experience, Chris ended up accidentally getting caught stealing a car (it was for a good cause, and totally the demon's fault). Initially Darryl, the family's cop-friend, got him out of jail, but then had a change of heart (being nearly executed a little while back might have something to do with it), and Chris ended up behind bars. In a surprising show of fatherly love, Leo offered to orb Chris out of jail and suddenly they were best of buds. Because that's totally how abolishing years and years of emotional issues and neglect works. Really!
Shortly before little Chris's due date, big Chris was beginning to panic. He and the sisters were beginning to consider that the one who turned Wyatt could actually be someone close to them, as Phoebe had been studying up on police statistics on crimes in the home. Chris was forced to explain that whatever happened to Wyatt happened before he was born, and that they were seriously running out of time. Gideon, who had overheard them getting startlingly close to the right track re: Wyatt, managed to get the sisters to focus on a series of witch-killings for the time being instead. Following a bunch of leads, Paige and Chris eventually saved a young witch from multiple demons attacking her, but not before her amulet was stolen. Seeing as it was a non-magical amulet, they were beginning to get very confused over the demons' strange actions. It wasn't until another demon was vanquished that the existence of Witch Wars was confirmed-a demonic, Survivor-type show that was gaining increasing popularity in the Underworld, where the winners would earn the powers of all the losers. Being the desperate, slimy Elder that he was, Gideon convinced the family that Witch Wars was a ploy building up to the producers stealing the Charmed Ones' powers, followed by Wyatt's. Thinking this a logical conclusion, they all focused their efforts and managed to pull Witch Wars off the air.
Chris's mission "complete" and Wyatt's safety "confirmed", the Halliwells soon began planning Chris's return to the future.
Only a few days before Chris's birthday, he was ready to go home. The police issued a warrant for his arrest (he did escape from jail, after all) seeing as Darryl still refused to help the sisters hide their magic, which made getting Chris home even more problematic. (What would happen if Chris went home and the cops showed up to arrest a newborn instead?) Regardless, the family said their goodbyes. Chris and Leo, who was chaperoning the time adventure in case of mishap at Gideon's urging, entered the portal... which had been sabotaged by Gideon to take them into an alternate reality, one made of Evil to balance out the Good world whence they came, instead of the future. Chris and Leo fled as soon as they realized their mistake - they attempted to contact the evil world's Darryl, only to be assaulted by the police and instead ran to the Underworld, now a place of peace and tranquility. There they met Barbas, the demon of hope, who is apparently just a creeper in any dimension. Phoebe and Paige (both Good and Evil flavors) showed up, had a standoff fight, and Barbas revealed that it was Gideon's hope to kill Wyatt. With Piper now in labor, Wyatt was completely unguarded. All of the Halliwells (and Leo) returned to the attic just in time to keep Gideon from murdering the baby.
With the "Power of Four", the Good versions were able to return to their world. Chris sent his and Leo's evil counterparts back before the portal closed and soon learned that their presences in each others' worlds had shifted the balance too far - the Good world was now too Good, every small infraction becoming capital offense. While the sisters went to check on Piper, Chris volunteered to watch after Wyatt while scrying for Gideon. Unfortunately for everyone, Piper (in the hospital by now) cast a spell on Paige and Phoebe to make them as happy and overly Good as everyone else in the world, making them... pretty damn useless in stopping Gideon. The girls left, Darryl tried arresting Chris for assaulting him (s'up evil!Chris, what'cha been up to?), and Chris magically punted him out the door. Leo left after getting an idea for tracking Gideon. This was, perhaps, a very, very big mistake.
Alone with Wyatt, Chris was made aware of another presence in the attic. When he attempted to retrieve his brother and leave for somewhere safer, Gideon appeared and stabbed Chris. By the time Leo arrived, it was too late - not only did Gideon make off with Wyatt, but Chris's wound was impossible to heal with magic thanks to the enchantment on the blade that stabbed him. Chris, on his deathbed, urged Leo to search for Gideon and Wyatt and save his brother before it was too late; even if Leo found Wyatt later, the trauma of being stuck in the Underworld for too long would be enough to turn him. Leo was reluctant, determined to save Chris, until he pointed out that finding Gideon in time would accomplish both goals if they could force him to reverse his magic. By the time Paige arrived to watch Chris in Leo's absence, the police had already arrived and were ready to take Chris into custody.
They were too late. Leo returned just in time to beg Chris to hold on and not give up, to which he simply returned with his final words that Leo should do the same. Here, Chris died, his body fading away in his father's arms.
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((This is where the universes (finally) diverge. In Charmed canon, Chris's death is the last we see of him. It's heavily implied that his memories live on in the Chris of the new timeline, yet nobody ever actually speaks of the old Chris to the new generation.))
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The AU truly begins when Leo went on to kill Gideon as the act of great evil in order to restore balance to the worlds. This great shift of both good and evil magic was enough to jolt Chris (whose soul was in limbo, waiting to join with his new self) back to life. Unfortunately, it was also enough to taint his soul in the process, giving it a warped look and solid form, and trapping him in a state of living ghostliness. When he came to, he was in New Orleans, Louisiana, and something was wrong. While he appeared human most of the time, he found himself occasionally fading into his ghost form, or otherwise accessing those powers without meaning to. Despite being more or less alive again, it felt like when he had been about to disappear from existence - although much more painful. In a stroke of either great luck or meddling fates, a clairvoyant witch had predicted his arrival and, assuming Chris (who introduced himself as Chris Perry, surprise of surprises) was an innocent, took him back to her place.
She introduced herself as Camilla, a witch who also practiced soothsaying. She usually used her powers to help settle the lost souls that gathered in the city - a "spiritual sinkhole", where lost souls gathered in great numbers - by finding out what could be used to calm them and entice them into the afterlife. Although Chris was quite the unique case, she was able to determine that Chris's magic was trying to escape from him and drag him back into the afterlife so that it could return to its true owner. (Unknown to Camilla, but easily guessed by Chris, this was his baby-self back in San Francisco who had not been tainted by the world-rebalancing magic, which his magic recognized as the real Chris more than it did its tainted owner.) As long as his magic remained unfettered, Chris would die again.
Camilla offered to write Chris a magic suppressing spell, one that would completely bury Chris's powers until his magic would come to recognize him as its rightful owner. Considering his options were either "powerless life" or "death", Chris went with the suppression spell. It was only after he had stripped his powers that they both came to realize something very, very important: his shifting in and out of the tangible plane hadn't been because he was on the verge of death, but instead because Chris had somehow merged with his own ghost, literally having become half-dead.
He took the news about as well as one might expect (read: yelling and denial, followed by shocked and perturbed silences). Camilla offered him a place to stay until they could sort the situation out. Obviously he couldn't use credit cards or anything that required ID if he was supposed to be a dead man, right? Unable to argue (and terrified of returning home), Chris accepted her offer for the time being. Over the next few weeks, he spent as much time as possible trying to learn to control his ghostly form and powers (more than just invisibility and phasing, he came to discover). He also met several of Camilla's friends: Peter, Liam and Raine. (All witches, although of them, only Peter had an active power: electrokinesis.) He avoided Camilla's whitelighter, Terry, whenever possible.
Not even three weeks later, Chris was dragged along to one of Camilla's exorcisms as an aide to pay her back for all his freeloading. When confronted with the ghost, it became violent and attacked the both of them. Chris jumped in with his new powers to beat the ghost back. After it was weakened enough, it disappeared, pulled into the mass collection of ambient spiritual energy at the center of the city, where it would hopefully take the time to reflect and move on to the afterlife from there. Unlikely, Camilla said, but definitely possible.
From then on, Chris used the violent ghosts as his training regime to get control of his powers, while he still accompanied Camilla to the exorcisms of more peaceful ghosts. Having landed himself in such a magically-rich culture, Chris decided to give himself one year to find a way to reintegrate his magic or return to the future before he would contact his family. His lack of magic and new, demonic-looking powers (along with the trauma of dying, coming back and the learning he was still thoroughly messed up) were enough make him wary of returning home in case of possible death or vanquishing.
Still, in the months that followed, Chris found himself dialing the manor and hanging up before anyone could answer. Not yet. He could solve this by himself without having to involve his family.
(Where I'm taking Chris from, it will have been three months since his revival, so about January, 2005.)
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.
At this point in his life, with all of his magic seemingly gone and replaced with powers straight from some twisted afterlife, Chris has to deal with the idea that the new timeline he worked so tirelessly to create might be something he won't get to see. Unconditional trust in his family is now confronted by an admittedly irrational fear that they won't be able to help him, or that they won't believe their son is who he says he is and would simply vanquish him on the spot. In a new town with a new, temporary goal, he tries to keep his new 'life' on track while desperately searching for a way to reintegrate his magic. To make matters worse, he has to deal with a bunch of strangers that have inserted themselves into his life, not to mention all of the ghosts that plague his new residence. Scared of what he'll find if he stops to think, he has once again fallen into old habits of abrasiveness and hyperfocus, leaving himself with little time to breathe, and even less to cope with his new traumas and figure out what he should eventually do with his third chance at life.
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.
Losing his magic in exchange for ghost powers has caused him no small amount of distress and a bit of an identity issue. He's still Chris, he knows that much, but who is he beyond someone who will help others and do what has to be done? He's not a Whitelighter, not a witch, just a half-dead man with some new and destructive capabilities. In some ways, this makes it easier for him to detach from his former life. In others, his resolve to do what comes naturally - that is, save innocents and help those that really need it - has been strengthened. The longer he stays in New Orleans, the less sure he is he'll be able to return home. His developing powers make it more and more apparent that he's changed into something that might no longer be welcome in the Halliwell manor as long as his old powers remain bound. His ghost powers present another unique challenge: being half-dead means he is half-free from the rules of the living, which also seems to include personal gain. Although he has yet to come up against a troubling enough situation that he's seriously considered it, the possibility for drastic power abuse is still there, knocking around inside his head. His only warnings against using his powers for the wrong reason are his conscience and the idea of what his family would say if he fell into the habit.
Sexual preferences / orientation: Chris loves the ladies. He made out with several during the first half of season six. Fortunately for me, real life tends to write television. Drew Fuller's girlfriend wasn't happy with how often the writers were having him make out with a bunch of women and complained.
Enter Bianca, his fiancée from the future. She was basically the writers' new excuse to push Chris into focusing on his mission after her death (in the same episode she was introduced, no less!) and to stop using sexuality as a tool in order to preserve her memory. Because yes, any instance of him making out with a woman in the show was prefaced by some sort of manipulation - he may have enjoyed it to some degree, but it wasn't done carelessly.
In the episode where Wyatt was temporarily erased from existence (along with his mission, and likely any reason he had for meeting Bianca), he had very few qualms in sleeping with a potential charge. Once Wyatt was restored to existence, Chris ended up turning down the potential charge's sexual advantages, and sent her away to be assigned to some other Whitelighter.
This evidence, coupled with his reaction to his fiancée's death later down the road, leads me to believe that he has no issue with one-night stands or dating in general. He is a strong believer in monogamy thanks to the values his mother and aunts raised him with. Betrayal hurts, but true love is beyond worth taking the risks. That romanticism has been a source of comfort and strength throughout his adulthood. If he were going to get into a serious relationship with someone, he would not cheat on her.
Now that Chris is faced with the possibility of not being able to integrate into the new timeline and meet Bianca again, thoughts of moving on and reaching out to someone else have entered his mind. He holds off, on the possibility that he'll be able to find a way to prove his identity to his family and gain their help in returning to his proper time.
Powers: After his death, Chris was pulled back to life by an extreme shift in magic, coupled with his unique situation in the timestream. The shifting magic kicked him back to life, while altering his spirit, allowing him access to his own ghost whenever he wants - although he isn't quite the standard ghost because of this and has gained a variety of powers. Most of these powers are, indeed, the standard for ghosts everywhere, only slightly different in that he can turn them on and off, more or less at will. These powers include: invisibility, intangibility, flight (up to about 150mph in ghost form, and 50mph in human form) and blasts of ectoplasm (either as ball or a stream). Due to the fact that he is still, technically, alive, Chris is unable to haunt other living beings and is just as susceptible to possession as he is capable of possessing others*.
While he can access most of his powers in human form, Chris is unable to use them to their full potential (aside from invisibility and intangibility, which are kind of just... on or off). Activating his powers while in human form, or even just when under emotional distress, will sometimes make his eyes to briefly glow red as he taps into his ghost half. In ghost form, the fact that he runs mostly off of his own energy more than any physical process grants him enhanced strength, stamina, agility and endurance. Actually injuring him in this form is quite difficult without using spiritual or magical means, but knocking him around until he simply can't hold onto his ghost form any longer is quite possible.
Obviously, many of these could be neutralized or warded against if someone were to look for the right technology or spells... and knew they needed to guard against a ghost in the first place.
His life as a magical being has given him a head start in learning to control these new powers, although he still has flubs where he might phase through a wall he's leaning on or turn invisible if he gets shy or frightened. As he continues to grow in his powers, this lack of control will be erased and, as he is still alive and growing, his powers may continue to evolve into things such as a personal shield or more sophisticated manipulation of his ectoplasmic energy. With the possibility of his magic reintegrating, his old powers may surface and eventually evolve into hybrid forms to work together with his ghost powers.
For the record, his old powers were orbing (a Whitelighter-specific type of teleportation), sensing the location of and hearing his charges' calls, telekinesis, telekinetic orbing, spellcasting, scrying and potion brewing. Being the son of a Charmed One, his innate power level is very strong. (Not that it means much to him when his brother is the single strongest force of good magic that will ever be and his mother and aunts are even stronger than that when together.) If any of these powers are to make an altered appearance at some point in the game, it would likely be orbing or telekinesis. Potion brewing and scrying may also return, although the ghostly tune of his voice would make spellcasting difficult and/or impossible no matter what.
Incidentally, he is inoculated against spider demon poison and, thanks to the blocking potion he drank early on, retains an immunity to empaths. Even with all of his powers, he is still half-human and that human side is no more resistant to damage than anyone else is; his ghost side means that he's susceptible to many of the things that would affect or draw in regular spirits or ghosts. The Whitelighter blood he still has makes him incredibly susceptible to Darklighter poison.
*Although Chris will most certainly use his ability for possession at varying points on unnamed NPCs, I don't think this will be an issue unless he tries it in a log with another player. All possible possessions will be hashed out OOC, and I will definitely take the option to have the city interfere and shove him out if it comes to that.