Post by StoryGirl83 on Jun 19, 2010 21:41:46 GMT -5
Blinking. Is it is a warlock power or a witch power? Charmed didn’t mention it much, but even in those few episodes they couldn’t make up their minds. In the season one episode “The Witch is Back” it was clearly stated that blinking was a witch power. Melinda didn’t even consider that it might be a warlock power.
In order to make these two opposing statements work I made blinking a rare ability, seen naturally in good witches and on even rarer occasions in warlocks. I figure warlocks have a good chance of getting a witch ability since they are essentially the same with the exception of one being good and one evil (and apparently full warlocks are also strange in the fact that they don't bleed or age past a certain point).
With it being a rare ability and a good witch one at that, the next question is "How is it commonly associated with warlocks and why did the sister get it when they started turning into warlocks?"
With my explanation the answer to the first part of that is that warlocks go after witches for their powers and thus either kill for them or gain them by other means (such as a power like Matthew's). However, that still only means a small number would have it, and many did, so I figured that being warlocks and not caring about the lives of others, they would find a magical way to pass on this ability to their offspiring if they had any. Of course if they were born with it, naturally they might pass is on, but if they weren't and got it some other way, they couldn't because it isn't a natural ability. They would capture a witch, one with any ability and they would kill him or her with an athame followed by a spell. The spell would somehow add the ability to blink to the natural ability of the murdered witch, and it would pass it on to the child. I have several warlocks in my stories and offspring of warlocks.
My main one is Steve Kessler, a full warlock, who would have gained this ability through this method. I honestly have no clue what his natural ability is, but that ability will show up when he fights the boys, because he will fight them.
He also had a sister, Angel, who married a witch. Yeah, kind of weird. She also would have gained this ability through this method, but she's dead, so she won't come up.
Steve has a daughter, Devia, with his dead nonmagical wife, Sylvia. Devia has two abilities. One is the ability to blink and the other is telekinesis, so one assumes she got the blinking ability through this same method. She is not a warlock, because with a nonmagical mother, she is must actually do something to become a full warlock. She is what (according to a definition I read that makes sense) is called an evil witch, but could eventually become either a warlock or a good witch. She could stay an evil witch, but it is unlikely with the influences in her life. She's ten when the series begins.
Angel also had a daughter. Her name is Brianna and due to her mother's death, she was raised by her witch father, Sean. As with Devia she could go either way, but she has made her choice. It is a little unclear on some fronts, but I think that she qualifies as a good witch. She, like her cousin, has two abilities. One is Empathy (which admittedly was not gained through the same method as the original empath in "Primrose Empath", but is much closer to it than the form of empathy that Phoebe showed (though sometimes Phoebe's empathy seemed to be the same.) The other is the ability to blink. With her, I think I have decided that she came by blinking naturally, though her mother died when she was three, so it could be the other way.
Lynn and Bianca didn't really seem to have blinking in "Chris Crossed", but I decided I was going to ignore this since Phoenix are an elite group of witches, not demons who shimmer and do some odd form of dark orbing. It's been a while, so I could have that wrong, but I do think it seemed that way at times. Both would have gotten this ability through this method.
Likewise Vera and her daughter, Nina, would have gotten this ability this way.
Ashlyn did not, because Bianca refused to let someone die so that her daughter could get this ability.
This does still leave the other, more difficult part of the question. I do not know why the girls would gain the ability to blink, but from what I saw on the episode, their abilities did change. Or Piper's did, since she froze with ice instead of stopping time. So I have to surmise that somehow blinking was a change of some sort, though not (as they believed) because they were turning warlock. Or at least not fully. It had to be a changing of some ability they already had, but what, I know not. Perhaps they had some latent ability for blinking within their genetics, but they only tapped into it when they were being evil. As they did this on accident, this should have allowed them to tap into it later on, so that is likely wrong. Another idea is that there was something in the sorceress' spell that did this. Perhaps knowing that Prue did not have this, Zile wanted to have this spell cast on Prue, but the only way for it to work (with Prue's connection to her sisters) was to cast it on all three. And it was connected to the ceremony, so when that failed with Zile's death, so did the ability. As to a sacrifice, maybe Piper and Phoebe were supposed to be that sacrifice or something.
But this is all using a theory I came up with to explain something that wasn't explained.
Prue: How? Matthew is so strong and he has this wild power. He can be at one place and then another.Matthew Tate had one power, the power to copy the abilities of good witches. Therefore, the power of blinking was an ability that good witches had, not warlocks. This is not to say that warlocks could not have this ability, for clearly it was decided that they could and did. This is from the season three episode "Bride and Gloom":
Melinda: In the blink of an eye?
Prue: Exactly.
Melinda: It’s called blinking. He must've copied it from another witch. I stripped him of all the powers he copied from me but who knows what other powers he still has?
Phoebe: What you mean copied from you?
Melinda: Matthew’s gift is to copy the power of a good witch when it’s used against him.
(Piper blinks out of the room and blinks back in the kitchen.)Despite what Melinda said, Piper believed this to be a warlock power. And she wasn't the only one.
Leo: Piper?
Piper: In here, somehow.
(Leo walks in the kitchen.)
Leo: You blinked.
Piper: I did not. Only warlocks do that.
Leo: Piper, you did it.
Leo: Your sister's blinking.First off, let me state that I am pretty sure someone goofed big time and messed this up. However, I am one who likes to make things work, so I decided to find a way to make this work. In order for these two episodes to both be right the ability had to prevalent with warlocks, and we did see other warlocks blink, such as the collectors. But Melinda, clearly said that Matthew's ability gave him the ability gain abilities from good witches, which seems to imply he couldn't get it from warlocks. Also, if this was something known to be a warlock ability she would not have been surprised that he had it and would have said that he probably got it from another warlock, or else that he was born with it. I hope that makes sense.
Phoebe: I-I'm, I'm sorry, what?
Piper: Okay, I admit it, it was definitely weird, but it was kinda fun. I was, I was in there and I was thinking about the kitchen and then suddenly, boom! Here I was.
Phoebe: That is so cool.
Leo: Except that it's a warlocks power.
Phoebe: So what? They're always trying to get one of ours, it's about time we got one of theirs.
In order to make these two opposing statements work I made blinking a rare ability, seen naturally in good witches and on even rarer occasions in warlocks. I figure warlocks have a good chance of getting a witch ability since they are essentially the same with the exception of one being good and one evil (and apparently full warlocks are also strange in the fact that they don't bleed or age past a certain point).
With it being a rare ability and a good witch one at that, the next question is "How is it commonly associated with warlocks and why did the sister get it when they started turning into warlocks?"
With my explanation the answer to the first part of that is that warlocks go after witches for their powers and thus either kill for them or gain them by other means (such as a power like Matthew's). However, that still only means a small number would have it, and many did, so I figured that being warlocks and not caring about the lives of others, they would find a magical way to pass on this ability to their offspiring if they had any. Of course if they were born with it, naturally they might pass is on, but if they weren't and got it some other way, they couldn't because it isn't a natural ability. They would capture a witch, one with any ability and they would kill him or her with an athame followed by a spell. The spell would somehow add the ability to blink to the natural ability of the murdered witch, and it would pass it on to the child. I have several warlocks in my stories and offspring of warlocks.
My main one is Steve Kessler, a full warlock, who would have gained this ability through this method. I honestly have no clue what his natural ability is, but that ability will show up when he fights the boys, because he will fight them.
He also had a sister, Angel, who married a witch. Yeah, kind of weird. She also would have gained this ability through this method, but she's dead, so she won't come up.
Steve has a daughter, Devia, with his dead nonmagical wife, Sylvia. Devia has two abilities. One is the ability to blink and the other is telekinesis, so one assumes she got the blinking ability through this same method. She is not a warlock, because with a nonmagical mother, she is must actually do something to become a full warlock. She is what (according to a definition I read that makes sense) is called an evil witch, but could eventually become either a warlock or a good witch. She could stay an evil witch, but it is unlikely with the influences in her life. She's ten when the series begins.
Angel also had a daughter. Her name is Brianna and due to her mother's death, she was raised by her witch father, Sean. As with Devia she could go either way, but she has made her choice. It is a little unclear on some fronts, but I think that she qualifies as a good witch. She, like her cousin, has two abilities. One is Empathy (which admittedly was not gained through the same method as the original empath in "Primrose Empath", but is much closer to it than the form of empathy that Phoebe showed (though sometimes Phoebe's empathy seemed to be the same.) The other is the ability to blink. With her, I think I have decided that she came by blinking naturally, though her mother died when she was three, so it could be the other way.
Lynn and Bianca didn't really seem to have blinking in "Chris Crossed", but I decided I was going to ignore this since Phoenix are an elite group of witches, not demons who shimmer and do some odd form of dark orbing. It's been a while, so I could have that wrong, but I do think it seemed that way at times. Both would have gotten this ability through this method.
Likewise Vera and her daughter, Nina, would have gotten this ability this way.
Ashlyn did not, because Bianca refused to let someone die so that her daughter could get this ability.
This does still leave the other, more difficult part of the question. I do not know why the girls would gain the ability to blink, but from what I saw on the episode, their abilities did change. Or Piper's did, since she froze with ice instead of stopping time. So I have to surmise that somehow blinking was a change of some sort, though not (as they believed) because they were turning warlock. Or at least not fully. It had to be a changing of some ability they already had, but what, I know not. Perhaps they had some latent ability for blinking within their genetics, but they only tapped into it when they were being evil. As they did this on accident, this should have allowed them to tap into it later on, so that is likely wrong. Another idea is that there was something in the sorceress' spell that did this. Perhaps knowing that Prue did not have this, Zile wanted to have this spell cast on Prue, but the only way for it to work (with Prue's connection to her sisters) was to cast it on all three. And it was connected to the ceremony, so when that failed with Zile's death, so did the ability. As to a sacrifice, maybe Piper and Phoebe were supposed to be that sacrifice or something.
But this is all using a theory I came up with to explain something that wasn't explained.