Penny Halliwell

Penelope Halliwell (née Warren) is the second daughter born to Charlotte Warren and Lawrence Cutler.

## History

### **Background**

Penelope Warren was the second daughter born to Queen Charlotte Warren and King Lawrence Cutler. She was born on June 23, 1545 in her parents bedroom in the Warren Palace in Avalon.

On June 23, 1545, the day she was born Avalon was turned upside down. Regina had her and her army attack to overthrow Charlotte and Lawrence. Lawrence took Penelope from Chalotte after she was born and gave her to there twenty-four year old daughter Melinda. Who took the infant and ran from the kingdom and out of Avalon as she was chased to a portal to the human world. Regina's friend Maura caught up to Melinda and cursed the last of the Warren lineage so they would suffer and Regina and her would be able to find the next Warren doppelgänger. The curse was so all of her descendants will never be successful in finding love, have fertility issues, and be semi-immortal. This came true for Penny who was married four times through the 1900's. She also lived to be almost 453 years old, until a warlock cast a spell on her to have a heart attack.

When her daughter Patty had her first child she cast a spell on herself to make it appear as she aged as the years went by. So none of Pattys daughters knew about the curse or magic, especially after there powers were bound in 1979. Which backfired when a Warlock cast a spell on her to have a heart condition so she would die.

## Personality

She is stubborn like all Halliwell's. Stuck in her own ways and likes things to go her the way she wants.

But would do anything to protect her family and decendants. She became very close to her three granddaughters Prue, Piper, and Phoebe becuase she had to raise them after her daughter Patty was murdered. So Penny has become very invested in there lives, and then her fourth grandaughter Paige after she was reunited with the Halliwell's. Even from the afterlife Penny still looks out for her family.

## Physical Apearance

Growing up living in Avalon Penny had strqaight shoulder length blonde hair. After being kicked out of Avalon Penny died her hair a orange color becomeing a giner instead of a blonde. Her hair after leaving Avalon would often be curled. After casting a spell on herself to make it look like she was aging her hair remained the dyed color and often curled. But as it appeared she got older her hair got more dark grey.

She has hazel colored eyes, like most Halliwell's who have brown colored eyes.

Her clothing style follows the era. In the 1960's she would wear hippie clothing - bright colors, flowing, skirts, and different jewlery. A lot of times she would wear thin cardigans as she got older, raising her granddaughters after her daughter Patty died.

## Magic Characteristics

Penny possesses the basic powers of a Witch. Every Witch is able to channel other witches or objects, brew potions, and cast spells.

Penny was noted to be particularly skillful in this fundamental ability - during her years of raising her daughter and granddaughters, she invented spells to discipline them when they got out of hand, and was also responsible for creating many spells in the Book of Shadows. Penny was also noted to be a particularly gifted potion maker, having crafted a great many potion recipes in the Book of Shadows.

### **Active Powers**

* **Telekinesis:** The ability to move objects and beings with the power of one's mind alone.

### **Inactive Powers**

* **Semi-Immortality:** The ability to live a long life without aging.

The Evil Queen cursed Penelope and her decendants. Part of the curse was to remain young but be able to die. Penny lived to be over 400 years old until she was died of a heart attack.

## Health and Vitals

* Cursed by the evil witch so her and her decendants will have a successful at finding love, have fertility issues, and to be semi-imortal. [1615]
* Died of a heart attack caused  by a spell cast by a Walock [March 5, 1998]

## Career

She presumably had a job with a good income, and it was once shown that she was particularly interested in IBM stocks, which implies that she was possibly an active investor.

After she retired, she moved out of the manor into a smaller apartment in the city so that Patty and Victor Bennett could start their own family. When the couple divorced, Penny moved back in with her daughter and granddaughters. While Patty went to work, Penny looked after her granddaughters, teaching them how to cast spells and brew potions. After Patty died, it was highly likely that Penny came out of retirement as she had to raise her granddaughters and to make ends meet.

## Weaknesses

Penny had 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

* Penelope:  In Gaelic the meaning of the name Penelope is: White shoulder. From Fionnghuala or Fionnuala. In Greek the meaning of the name Penelope is: Bobbin. Penelope was the faithful wife of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey.
* **Halliwell:**Derived from any of the several places named with the Old English pre 7th Century elements "halig" meaning "holy", plus "well(a)", a well or spring. These places include Halliwell in Lancashire, recorded as Haliwell circa 1200; Holwell in Dorset and Oxfordshire appearing respectively as Halegewelle and Haliwelle in the Domesday Book of 1086; Halwell and Halwill in Devonshire, recorded as Halgewilla in 1086, and Holywell in Northumberland, Kent, Cambridgeshire and Cornwall.

## Notes

* Penny adds two secret ingredients to her blueberry cobbler: honey and a splash of rum.
* She changed her name to Halliwell after Melinda Warren's murder to start over and create a new life. Later her husband in the 1900's Allen changed his last name to Halliwell to match his wife and daughter, Patty.
* After Piper froze Andy when they were children, Penny was able to undo the freeze with a wave of her hand; She waved her hand over the frozen boy as she said "you won't remember a thing". This suggests Penny has the ability to undo certain magical powers physically or mentally and erase memories.
* Prue went through a rebellious stage at seventeen until her violent boyfriend attacked her, who disappeared not long after that. Piper mentioned that Grams went crazy when she found out and started to wonder if she had something to do with it.