Prue Halliwell

**Prudence "Prue" Halliwell** was the oldest Charmed One, and had always been regarded as the bravest and most powerful of the four sisters, to the extent that she was granted the nicknames "Super Witch" and "Wicca Wonder".

She is the wife of Andy Trudeau and the mother of Andrew, Allen, and Penelope Trudeau . She is the older sister of Piper, Phoebe and the older half-sister of Paige Matthews.

Her Wiccan powers were focused on mind and movement: the ability to move objects with her mind, and the ability to project herself in an astral form. Besides this, Prue possessed the basic powers of a witch: the ability to cast spells, brew potions and scry for lost objects or people. She could also access The Power of Three, the collective power of the Charmed Ones.

Prue worked as a successful photojournalist at 415 Magazine, a career she wanted to pursue since her youth, but had given up until being introduced to the world of magic made her realize that her dreams were worth fighting for.

Despite her formidable powers and sharp intellect, Prue was tragically murdered on May 17, 2001, in her own home by the Source of All Evil's personal assassin, Shax, which temporarily severed The Power of Three altogether.

In 2007, she was given the choice to become a Whitelighter and help other young witches which she agreed to. She soon reunited with Andy and the two started their relationship. The two had their first son in December of 2007.

## Biography

Prue was born October 28, 1970 to Patty Halliwell and Victor Bennett. When she was six, her father saved her from the ice cream truck. Two years later her mother was killed by a demon, and it had a devastating effect on her, as unlike her sisters she was old enough to understand what had happened. Victor initially remained part of his daughters' lives, but left after a demonic attack, which took place on Piper's fifth birthday. Prue and her sisters were raised by their grandmother. Since they quarreled a lot, Penny erased all their magic-related memories and blocked their powers.

Over time, Prue developed a grudge against her father for leaving the family, while as the eldest, she looked after Piper and Phoebe, more like a mother than a sister. In high school, Prue was very popular and began an on-off relationship with a childhood friend Andy Trudeau.

After their grandmother's death, Phoebe returned from New York, and found the Book of Shadows in the attic, unlocking her and her sisters' powers. Initially Prue didn't believe she was a witch, but she soon had to surrender to the evidence. She also rekindled her relationship with Andy, but magic interfered numerous times.

In the end, through a spell Prue discovered that Andy would never accept her witch nature. She suffered worse pain when in an attempt to protect her and her sisters from a demon, Andy was killed. His death had a devastating effect on Prue, who felt guilty and even wanted to stop being a witch. Eventually she managed to get over her grief, but she could never find true love again.

Some time later she became a photographer, and devoted herself to the study of witchcraft, achieving great results. However, this made her obsessed with fighting evil, so much so that she almost killed Phoebe's new boyfriend, Cole Turner. Prue's suspicions were not far-fetched since Cole was a half-demon sent by the Triad to kill the sisters, but her obsession and her continual suppression of emotions led her not to notice that a mad mortal was plotting against her, and lose control of her astral projection power.

In their third year as a witches, the sisters clashed with the demon Shax. After magic was exposed, Phoebe went to the Underworld with Cole to make a deal with the Source of All Evil. He would have Tempus reverse time if Phoebe remained in the Underworld. Without Phoebe there to help them, Prue and Piper were powerless against Shax, who killed Prue by blasting her through a wall with a gust of wind.

Six months after the Ultimate Battle, Prue assisted the young witch Billie Jenkins by flipping the pages of the Book of Shadows like her grandmother used to. When the sisters later asked Billie about it, Piper suspected it was Prue who helped her out. She later used the spell to summon a spirit and Prue appeared before her for the first time after her death.

In 2007, Prue agreed to become a Whitelighter after she helped several witches as a spirit. While Prue was helping her charges, she would orb in and check on her sister but the half-whitelighter children would see her. She soon reunited with Andy and started their relationship against the Elders orders.

## Physical Appearance

Prue had dark hair that become lighter then darker as time went by. Her clothing style changes from classy professional clothing to more casual clothing. Prue showed a decided preference for more revealing clothes, often wearing crop tops, tube tops, and low cut blouses. When the whitelighter Natalie suggested a costume change because she deemed the Charmed Ones' fashion sense too "fearless", Prue claimed that then she would have 'nothing to wear'. When Prue became a whitelighter, she dressed more professional again and casual at home.

## Personality

As the oldest sister, Prue saw herself as the maternal figure of the household, especially after her mother died and her father left. In fact, Piper and Phoebe once agreed that Prue had actually sacrificed her own childhood to help raise them, which made her become responsible and determined, but also caused her to develop a sense of caution as well as a dislike of surprises that made her slow to trust people.

## Powers & Abilities

### Witch

##### Basic Powers

* **Spell Casting:** The ability to cast spells and perform rituals.
* **Potion Making:** The ability to brew magical potions.
* **Scrying:** The ability to locate beings or objects with a crystal and a map.

##### Active Powers

* **Telekinesis**: The ability to move objects and beings with the mind. Prue could use this power to increase her physical strength and agility and redirect magical attacks. She initially channeled it through her eyes, but later became able to use her hands. In an alternate future, Prue's power advanced further, allowing her to fire blasts of concussive kinetic energy that easily destroyed the manor attic.
* **Astral Projectio**n: The ability to project the consciousness outside of the body in astral form. It first manifested when Prue felt a strong desire to be at two places at once and was quite exhausting at first. Prue could not use her powers in astral mode, though she was trying to learn this shortly before her death.

##### Passive Powers

* **High Resistance:** The ability to be highly resistant to physical and magical harm.

### Whitelighter

##### Basic Powers

* **Spell Casting:** The ability to cast a spells and perform rituals.
* **Potion Brewing:** The ability to brew potions.
* **Scrying:** The ability to locate an object or person by use of a crystal and a map.

##### Active Powers

* **Orbing:** The ability to teleport through the use of orbs.
* **Hovering:** The ability to rise a few feet in the air, with or without orbs.
* **Glamouring:** The ability to change one's appearance to look like another human being.
* **Healing:** The ability to heal physical wounds and different injuries.
* **Photokinesis:** The ability to create and manipulate light and orbs.
* **Thermokinesis:** The ability to mentally control and manipulate heat.
* **Mind Manipulation:** The ability to enter one's mind via telepathic charge connection.

##### Other Powers

* **Sensing:** The ability to locate and find their charges.
* **Cloaking:** The ability to hide yourself or others from magical detection. Limited to charges.
* **High Resistance:** The power to be resistant to potentially lethal powers.
* **Reconstitution:** The ability to reform the body after it was destroyed.
* **Regeneration:** The ability to instantly heal oneself after being injured.
* **Immortality:** The ability to have an infinite lifespan and an arrested aging process.
* **Omnilingualism:** The ability to understand, speak, and read any language without training in it. Limited to the language of their charges.
* **Mediumship:** The ability to see and commune with spirits of the dead.

## Romantic Life

###### Andy Trudeau

had been involved with Prue and her family since childhood. They even dated in high school, but the relationship ended when he moved to Portland. They were reunited years later, around the same time Prue became a Charmed One. However, though they did truly love each other, Prue's witchcraft responsibilities caused their romance to become an on-again-off-again relationship, and he eventually found out about her and her sisters being witches shortly before he sacrificed his own life to protect them. Prue and Andy were presumably each other's greatest loves, and hence his death was one of her greatest losses, evidenced by the fact that she never had any permanent boyfriend after him. Prue reunited with Andy after her death. When both was reborn as whitelighters, the two married and had children.

###### **Eric**

Sometime before 1998, Prue traveled to London, England where she had a relationship with this man. Nothing else is known about Eric or Prue's relationship with him. He was mentioned by Cupid in the episode Heartbreak City.

###### **Alan**

Alan was a love interest of Prue's during her time in college. Nothing else is known about Alan or Prue's relationship with him. He was mentioned by Cupid in the episode Heartbreak City.

###### **Tom Peters**

Prue started dating Tom sometime between 1990, her junior year in college and 1992, her senior year. He was a star wide receiver and captain of the Gold State football team while Prue was head cheerleader. In the episode Wrestling with Demons, Prue discovered Tom was preparing to become a demon. Prue, not wanting to have to vanquish Tom, helped him deal with his issues and become mortal again before he murdered an innocent.

###### **Roger**

In her twenties, Prue became engaged to Roger, who was her boss at the Museum of Natural History. However, Roger kept coming on to Phoebe secretly, then claimed that it was Phoebe who went after him. Though she believed Roger, Prue still broke off their engagement, and later quit her job to get away from him, since their relationship had deteriorated to the point where they cannot even work as colleagues, without being hostile or mean to each other.

###### **Alan Stanton**

They were both colleagues at Buckland's. Alan was the first person that Prue showed interest in since Andy died. They went on a couple of dates, but Alan kept his distance. Prue suspected that he was not interested, but he was merely giving her space, knowing she was still healing from her loss. When a spell turned Prue into a man, they held a conversation and Prue learned how he really felt about her. Once the spell reversed, they went on another date.

###### **Jack Sheridan**

They met during a TV Auction where Jack snatched away Prue's auction. He later developed an interest in Prue and transferred to Buckland to get closer to her. Although she initially hated him, she began to warm up and they became good friends, and eventually started a short relationship before she discovered that he wasn't right for her and ended their relationship the same day she quit her job.

###### **Bane Jessup**

When Prue went undercover as the assassin Ms. Hellfire to find out who was behind an assassination attempt on her and her sisters, she met Bane Jessup, a suave crime boss. Eventually, she discovered that the demon Barbas had hired Bane to kill the sisters along with 10 other witches. Bane then hired Ms. Hellfire to complete the job. Seduced by lust and his romance, Prue started to fall for Bane, but had to have him arrested for conspiracy to commit murder once the entire plot was discovered and Barbas was banished back to the Underworld. Bane Jessup later escaped prison trying to get Prue to help him fight off the demon Litvack, who wanted Bane dead. During this time, Prue and Bane fell for each other and consummated their relationship. However, Bane returned to jail willingly and the two never saw each other again after this.

###### **Brendan Rowe**

Prue briefly fell for Brendan, a pure-hearted half-warlock who she helped to rid himself of his evil nature. His warlock brothers Greg and Paul saw how much Brendan was starting to feel for Prue, and tried to make him sacrifice her as part of their last attempt to turn him evil. Their relationship would be ultimately short-lived due to Brendan finally fulfilling his dream of becoming a priest.

###### **Dick**

Dick was a boring guy who worked in an office not far from Café Le Blue, where he had a date with Prue. He didn't like taking long lunches. On his date, the Genie appeared three inches tall, distracted Dick, and dived into his mouth. Controlled by the genie, Dick dipped his fingers in the butter and greedily licked it off. He then asked Prue what she wanted in a man, she replied she wanted to be excited by love again, totally unaware that her "boyfriend" was actually the genie speaking to her. The genie, as Dick, granted her wish. We later heard at the end of the episode, that Prue had dumped Dick.

###### **Micah/Mitch**

Micah was a member of the witch-hunter troupe that patrolled the Virginia village where Melinda Warren was born. Though he worked as a witch hunter, he was actually riding with them to undo their work and protect good magic. It appeared that he also knew the troupe's commander, Ruth Cobb, was actually an evil witch herself. He encountered the Halliwell sisters and helped them twice. However, his cover was blown after he released the sisters and he was killed by Cole. At the end of the episode, a man who looks identical to Micah, called Mitch, shows interest in Prue at P3.

###### **Sean**

Sean was a man that Prue dated in late 2000. However, due to her obsession with tracking down the demons who continuously sent demons after her and his sisters Piper and Phoebe, Prue stood Sean up on many dates. At the same time, a new manager at P3 named Abbey began to stalk Prue in hopes of taking over her identity and broke into Halliwell Manor. After this breaking and entering took place, Sean ended up being one of the many suspects thought to be the stalker. In the end, Abbey was proven to be the stalker.

###### **Justin Harper**

Justin Harper was Prue and Piper's friend from high school. He had a crush on Prue, but they never dated. During their tenth year reunion, he reunited with Piper and Prue, and finally started dating Prue. After a couple of dates, the relationship deteriorated slowly. A warlock named Zile then shape-shifted into him to lure Prue with him to turn herself and her sisters into warlocks, thus turning the Power of Three evil for a short time. At the end of it, Prue ultimately broke up with Justin because he was just too "boring".

###### **T.J.**

Prue started regularly astral projecting to a bar unconsciously in her sleep. At the bar, she met T.J., with whom she flirted. On the day of Piper and Leo's wedding, Prue was wanted for murder, and T.J. denied knowing her. When Prue projected herself back to the bar at noon, he tries to take her away, only to be stopped by the cops. He then crashes Piper and Leo's wedding and Prue immediately astral projects and leaves with him. That same night, T.J. and Prue are enjoying themselves in the woods when Phoebe suddenly casts a spell to bring her back. They never met again after this.

## Family Relationships

###### Victor Bennett

As a child, Prue had a healthy, loving relationship with her father. He would often read her bedtime stories before going for her nap. However, in her early childhood, Victor was forced to leave the family, due to the constant demonic attacks on his girls. It caused Prue to have a hatred towards him that lasted well into her late 20's. After not seeing him or communicating with him for over 20 years, he mysteriously comes back to San Francisco and decides to go see Prue, who at the time was working at Buckland Auction House. He brings a Protection Ring with him.

Although, at the time she didn't know who he was and treated him like any other client, that was until she looked up at him and noticed who he really was. A furious Prue demands he leave right now and tells him not to come near her or her sisters. However unknown to any of them, he was working with three shapeshifters to protect his girls.

After her encounter with Victor, she immediately meets up with her sisters and tells them the father that abandoned them is back and wants to have dinner with them. An intrigued Phoebe, meets up with him beforehand where he accidentally mistook her for Piper. They hug and she suddenly receives a premonition of Victor stealing the Book of Shadows. She leaves distraught and goes back to the manor to get ready for dinner with him tonight. Prue however, is reluctant to go and almost misses out on it until Andy convinces her to go. Once there, she confronts him about his past and about how he left his family.

Victor then puts out his leg, making a waiter trip over with a flambe for them but Piper freezes the room and saves it from falling. The room unfreezes and he notices Piper has changed positions and admits to them he knows that they are witches. They go back to the Manor, where Victor insists on seeing the Book of Shadows again, however Prue furiously tells him no and flings him across the room. Phoebe then tells the truth about her father and what she saw to Piper and Prue, saying Prue was right all along. The next morning, Phoebe finds Victor outside the manor, asking for her trust. He grabs onto her and has another premonition, of "Victor" stealing the Book of Shadows, however, Victor shapeshifts into Marshall, their next-door neighbor. She runs back inside and meets her sisters there, with two more of the shapeshifters in tack.

She makes up an excuse and goes up to the attic and finds a spell to vanquish shapeshifters. However when she comes back down, one of them has changed his appearance to look like Victor, confusing her. Both of them try to convince that the other one is fake, until the real Victor calls Prue, "Prudence." Prue telekinetically moves the protection ring to Victor and Phoebe starts to chant the spell. It works and leaves Victor unharmed. After everything was set straight, the sisters were meant to have lunch with him, however he was forced to go back to New York, but he left the girls a videotape of their first Christmas all together.

A couple years later, he returned, but Prue's feelings towards him were harsh again. The ice-cream truck from which Victor had saved Prue when she was little returned, and Prue, along with her sisters, knew they had to stop it once and for all; but they didn't count with demonic children escaping the truck and causing troubles in the city.

The Halliwell family had to put their issues aside if they wanted to get rid of the demons. Prue relied on her father in fixing the truck so they could trap the demons in. But in the process, Prue almost got sucked by the vanquishing entity known as the Nothing that lived inside the truck; Victor managed to pull her away and saved her.

In the end, Prue and Victor solved their differences and started having an almost normal father-daughter relationship.

###### Piper Halliwell

Prue was very protective of Piper. When they were in high school, Prue would usually be the one to overshadow Piper, while still being the one to come to her defense. Piper tried running for freshman secretary in high school, but was so nervous that Prue got up on stage and finished her speech for her.

Prue, along with Phoebe, would normally put Piper in the middle of their arguments. While Phoebe would often challenge some of Prue's decisions, Piper was the one who always accepted these rules instead of objecting them. Prue would do nearly anything to ensure Piper's safety, including attacking innocents just in order to take her to the hospital. Piper looked up to Prue as her role model which led to them having the seemingly closest bond between all of the sisters. Even in the future, Prue realized her evildoings and trusted Piper enough to take away everyone's pain and to be the one to kill her and to save the world.

###### Phoebe Halliwell

Prue relationship with Phoebe was the opposed to the one she shared with Piper, Prue often found herself at odds with her younger sister, these discussions often ended with the two furiously arguing with each other. The two have had furious arguments with each other, more than once. Unlike Prue, Phoebe has a loud, outspoken personality that would normally put the two at odds with one another. Prue and Phoebe's relationship was in a rocky state until they became witches, and that relationship slowly improved over time. Prue was also somewhat intimidating towards Phoebe when Phoebe worried about disappointing her, such as neglecting to tell Prue bad news like when she ran Prue's car into a poll, or telling Prue last about Cole being alive. This is probably due to the fact that Prue acted as her mother throughout her childhood. Still, Prue loves Phoebe, was open to listening to Phoebe if she had any problems whether magic-related or not. Prue would be willing to do anything to protect her.

###### Paige Matthews

Prue later formed a close relationship with Paige after she became a whitelighter and was allowed to met with her sisters again. Their relationship at first was awkward and tense due to Prue feeling awkward, having a sister she didn't know and Paige feeling like her sisters would quit talking to her now that they had Prue back as she felt like a replacement sister for Prue.

## Etymology

* Prudence -
* Halliwell -

## Trivia

* Prue was in the afterlife for six years before she became a whitelighter.