Paige Matthews

**Paige Matthews** is the biological daughter born to Patty Halliwell and her Guardian Angel, Sam Wilder. Through her mother she has three older maternal sisters Prue, Piper, and Phoebe Halliwell. She is the wife to Henry Mitchell. The mother to their twin daughters Tamora and Kat Mitchell and adoptive son Henry Mitchell Jr.

## History

### Childhood

Paige Matthews was born on August 2, 1980 at the Halliwell Manor to a witch, Patty Halliwell and her guardian angel, Sam Wilder. Originally Patty wanted to keep her and raise her along with her three other daughters Prue, Piper, and Phoebe Halliwell. However it was forbidden for any Angel to be in a relationship let alone with a witch. Patty kept her pregnancy and birth a secret. Once she was born Penny bound her magic making her human. Sam orbed him and Patty to a Catholic Church in virginia, where they gave their baby to a nun. All they requested was she would have a good loving home and her name to begin with a 'P'. Paige was soon adopted by David and Julia Matthews in early 1981.

She was given a normal childhood by David and Julia. But in her teenage years she began hanging out with the wrong crowd. Which led to Paige becoming a drug addict and an alcoholic.

### Life Before a Charmed One

In May of 1996 Paige was drinking with friends and got behind the wheel. She got in a car accident with the Gilberts car. The Gilberts went over the bridge they were on into the water. The car Paige was driving hit the railing and caught on fire, before it ignited Paige was thrown from the car. She was in a coma for two and a half months.

## Powers

**Guardian Angel Powers**

* **Accelerated Healing:** The ability to
* **Enhanced Durability:** The ability to withstand damage due to physical and magical conditions or factors surviving otherwise lethal attacks.
* **Healing:** The ability to heal physical wounds and injuries.
* **Hovering:** The ability to rise a few feet into the air with cyan and white orbs.
* **Orbing:** The ability to teleport through cyan and white orbs.
* **Photokinesis:** The ability to create and manipulate light.

**Individual Powers**

* **Force Field:** The ability to create a cyan translucent barrier or spheres from orbs that can protect anyone within, by deflecting or absorbing magical attacks and repelling enemy's. She can also use this shield as a way to contain an explosion.
* **Telekinetic Orbing:** The ability to move and teleport objects with the mind via cyan and white orbs. As she got stronger with this power she was eventually able to move people as well.
	+ **Remote Orbing:** The ability to orb people or objects from one place to another.

**The Power of Three**

* **Channeling:** The ability to draw power from Piper and Phoebe to her advantage.
* **Enhanced Resistance:** The ability to be resistant to physical and magical condition and factors, surviving otherwise lethal attacks.
* **Magical Enhancement:** The ability to enhance powers, effects, and objects that originate from magic.
	+ **Spell Amplification:** The ability to increase the strength, duration, and potential of a spell.
	+ **Power Augmentation:** The ability to enhance her powers through her connection Piper and Phoebe.

**Wiccan Powers**

* **Divination:** The ability to gain insight on the future, the present, and the past through divination tools.
* **Glamour:** The ability to create an illusion to change her appearance into another person.
* **Potion Brewing:** The ability to brew and concoct supernatural elixirs and potions that contain magical properties.
* **Spell Casting:** The ability to change and control events with magical influence.

## Personality

Paige is very similar to her older maternal sister Prue personality wise. She is stubborn, strong willed, and has issues with her biological father,

Something she struggled with after becoming *Charmed* is her independence and identity. Though she still loved them and considered them a blessing to her even if they had disagreements, mostly with Piper because of how different they are. Similar to Prue and Phoebe often arguing,

Paige is not one for traditional things. She prides herself on what she refers to as her "weirdness" and usually desires for her significant other to be "weird" as well. Paige also takes pride in being a witch and wants to be with men who embrace her heritage as well.

## Name's Meaning

* **Paige:** From an English surname meaning 'servant', 'page' in Middle English.
* **Matthews:** Derived from the given name Matthew. English form of Matthaios, which was a Greek form of the Hebrew name Mattityahu meaning 'gift of Yahweh' from the roots rattan meaning 'gift' and yah referring to the Hebrew God.

## Notes

* As a teenager she was a drug addict and an alcoholic.