Paige Matthews

**Paige Laurel Matthews** is the only daughter born to Patty Halliwell and Sam Wilder.

## History

### **Background**

Paige Matthews is the only child born to Patty Halliwell, a Witch and Sam Wilder, a Guardian Angel. Though when Patty and Sam had to give her up at a Church in San Francisco. They asked the nun at the church to make sure her name started with the leter 'P'. Mark and Hellen Matthews adopted her raising her until they died in a car accident when Paige was a teenager.

Penny Halliwell bound her powers after she was born before Patty and Sam gave her up. Her powers became unbound when she, Piper, and Phoebe reconstituted the power of three in May of 2001.

## Personality

**Phoebe**: "*Defiant, clever, and independent.That kinda describes Paige, don't you think?*"
**Piper**: "*Yeah, along with stubborn, stubborn, and more stubborn.*"
— Phoebe and Piper Halliwell about Paige

Paige is very similar to her deceased oldest sister, Prue Halliwell, in terms of personality. She is stubborn, strong-willed, and has issues with her (biological) father. One of Paige's main personality traits and something that she struggled with after becoming Charmed was her independence. For over 20 years, Paige went through life as an only child and attempted to retain her independence after finding her sisters, though she still loved them and considered them a blessing to her even if she sometimes had little disagreements with Piper because of how different they are much like Prue and Phoebe had.

During her teens, Paige was a rebel like her older sister Phoebe. She used to smoke and at one time was an alcoholic. However, she matured heavily when both her adoptive parents died in a car accident.

With Whitelighter blood inside of her, Paige has an inherent need and ability to help others, which led her to wanting to become a social worker.

Paige is not one for tradition or mainstream things. She prides herself on what she calls her "weirdness," and usually desires for her love interests to be "weird" as well. Paige also takes pride in being a witch, and wants to be with men who fully accept her heritage.

## Physical Appearance

* Paige during her teenage years
1/1Paige's appearance changes quite a lot, although not anywhere near as often as her older sister Phoebe.

* **Hair:** For her entire childhood and going into her twenties, Paige sports long dark brown hair, sometimes with bangs. She usually fixed her hair with loose curls. She also frequently puts her hair in ponytails. In 2004, Paige turns her hair red when a potion accidentally blows up in her face and cuts it into a bob. She straightened and curled her hair in equal proportions. Then in 2005, she lets her hair grow and turns it strawberry blonde. Her hair is usually in loose curls, and on occasion is very straight.
* **Wardrobe:** Her fashion sense changes considerably from her early to late twenties. In her early twenties, her style had a "party girl" look, wearing slightly provocative clothing. She often wore shades of pink, green and red. During her mid twenties her dress style became somewhat more grownup, wearing jeans more often, and wearing slightly less revealing tops. She often wore shades of yellow, blue, and pink. During her mid twenties, Paige starts to wear more pant suits and clothes with lace and looks more professional then in her early twenties. Also, she favors dark colors when wearing professional clothing.
* **Make-up:** Paige is naturally pale and only tanned once. She wears more make-up then her older sister, Piper regularly does and often chooses a bright red lipstick, sometimes dark purple.

## Magic Characteristics

* Powers

Paige possesses the basic powers of a Witch. Every Witch is able to channel other witches or objects, brew potions, and cast spells.
After Paige found out she was a Witch her older sister Phoebe taught her about witchcraft.

**Active Powers**
Paige inherited her primary wiccan power from her ancestor Melinda Warren.

* **Telekinetic Orbing:** The ability to move or teleport objects through the use of blue and white orbs.
	+ **Telekinetic Maneuver:** The ability to alter an object's directional course, by calling for them and sending them back mid air.

**Guardian Angel Powers**
* **​Orbing:** The ability to teleport oneself from one place to another with the use of orbs.
* **Sensing:** The ability to locate charges or others.

Paige along with her sister possess the Power of Three and inactive power that enhances her powers when combined with her sisters. Originally it was Prue, Piper, and there younger sister Phoebe that made up the power of three. Then after Prue was murdered it became Piper, phoebe, and there long lost younger sister Paige.

**Inaxtive Powers**
* **The Power of Three:** The collective powers of the Charmed Ones.

## Love Life

* Philip
* Shane

**Philip Lewicky**

Paige's first love. He gave her a necklace in 1994.

**Shane**

Sometime in mid 2000, Paige starts to date Shane. After she went to Prue's funeral, Paige met Shane at P3. After a little dancing the couple sneaks onto a helipad of a high building.
## Career

* South Bay Social Services

Paige's first job was a social assistant. She worked for Bob Cowan and dreamt of being promoted to social worker. Paige got promoted to social worker twice: she turned down the first one. Though she accepted the second promotion. While also being taught witchcraft on the side by her older half sister, Phoebe Halliwell.
## Weaknesses

* Witch
* Guardian Angel

Paige has all the weaknesses of a typical Witch.

* **Disbelief:** The act of denying or disbelieving in one's potential could cause a witch to inadvertently suppress their magical power.
* **Distraction:** Denying a witch from concentrating or giving full attention to their spells, may render them ineffective. Since most spells are spoken verbally and take time to take effect, witches are vulnerable to attack before their completion.
* **Emotions:** A witch's magic is subject to the influence of their emotional state and may fluctuate according to them when untrained.
* **Herbs:** Ingestion of certain herbs can cause a witch to lose consciousness and prevent them from using magic for an undetermined amount of time.
* **Magic:** Witches are still susceptible to the powers of witchcraft.
* **Mortality:** Despite their mystical attributes, witches are still human and share many of the same weaknesses as non-supernatural beings (e.g. age, decapitation, disease, heart-failure, suffocation, snapped neck, etc.).
* **Overexertion:** The excessive use of magic could lead to disorientation, nose bleeds, unconsciousness, and if taken to the extreme, death.
* **Nature:** It is said that nature will always find a balance when witchcraft is performed and spells will always have loopholes. This means, among other things, that no being can be truly immortal.

## Name's Meaning

* **Paige:**From the English surname meaning "servant, page" in Middle English. It is ultimately derived (via Old French and Italian) from Greek παιδιον (paidion) meaning "little boy".
* **Matthews:**Derived from the given name Matthew (meaning "gift of YAHWEH". Matthew, also called Levi, was one of the twelve apostles. He was a tax collector, and supposedly the author of the first gospel in the New Testament. He is considered a saint in many Christian traditions).

## Notes

* Paige's zodiac sign is Leo
* Paige has a knack for singing
* Paige is a really good artist. She used to paint frequently during her early twenties but stopped because of being a witch.
* Paige discovered that a vanquishing haiku could be used instead of a vanquishing spell.
* Paige was good at Chemistry during High School
* Paige is ticklish on her third toe on left foot and right below the neck, only salts her popcorn on the right side of the bag, and cries every time she watches "The Wizard of Oz".
* Like her older sisters, Prue and Phoebe Halliwell, Paige has gone through a rebellious stage as a teenager.
* Both Prue and Paige's true loves were police officers.
* Paige is the only sister that is a kind of Angel (Guardian Angel) at birth instead a transformation.
* Paige is claustrophobic.
* Out of all sisters, Paige has the most powers due to her Angelic side. Out of all witches of the Warren Line, she has the second most powers, the first being her oldest nephew, Wyatt Halliwell.
* Paige seems to have a good intuition and is an excellent Tarot reader.
* Both Paige and Phoebe's past lives were evil.
* Paige's past life isn't connected to the Warren Line of witches. However, she does have an entry in the Warren Book of Shadows.
* As a child, Paige owned a clown puppet named Slappy, which once manifested in the real world as a real clown.