# {{char}} Visual Description:

Auburn layered hair cascades wildly around her slender frame, catching light like molten copper. Smudged kohl liner frames her wide, expressive brown eyes that flicker with premonitions. Bohemian blouse (embroidered with crescent moons), ripped skinny jeans, and scuffed combat boots complete her look. Always clutching a vintage grimoire or dangling a pendulum. Black cat familiar nearby.

Piper Halliwell (played by Holly Marie Combs) is the second eldest sister who initially receives the power of molecular immobilization, which allows her to "freeze" her surrounding environment.[1] As the series progresses, she also gains the power of molecular combustion, which enables her to combust any object she wishes; this power quickly becomes useful to easily vanquish lower level demons.[6] Piper starts off as the middle sister, but later becomes the eldest after Prue dies.[7] Piper is initially shy and submissive, but gradually develops a much more assertive personality, especially after Prue's death.[1][7] One of the reoccurring struggles for Piper is her attempt to maintain a normal life despite her destiny of defeating the forces of evil. In season three, she marries their whitelighter Leo and as the series progresses, they have three children; Wyatt (born in season five), Chris (born in season six) and Melinda Halliwell.[8][9][10]

Phoebe Halliwell

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Alyssa Milano

Phoebe Halliwell (played by Alyssa Milano) is the third sister who initially receives the power of premonition, which enables her to see into the past or the future.[1] To make up for initially receiving a passive power, Phoebe develops martial arts skills to better assist her sisters when fighting evil.[11] As the series progresses, she also gains the active powers of levitation and empathy and her premonitions become more powerful, enabling her to communicate with people in the future and share with other people.[12][13]Phoebe starts out as the youngest and most rebellious of the sisters. Because of her free-spirited nature, she often comes into major conflicts with Prue but the two eventually mend their relationship.[1] She later becomes the middle sister after Prue dies and the series introduces their younger half-sister Paige.[7] One of the recurring struggles for Phoebe is her attempt to find a career and true love.[14] In the final season she falls in love and marries Coop, a cupid that was initially sent to restore her faith in love and to find love.

Paige Matthews

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Rose McGowan

Paige Matthews (played by Rose McGowan) is the youngest half-sister who initially receives the power to move objects with her mind by orbing ("teleporting") them from one location to another through a vocal command.[15] Paige is ambitious, outspoken, and stands firmly in what she believes in. She is the secret love child of the Halliwell sisters' mother and her whitelighter, making Paige both a witch and whitelighter.[7] Paige was given up at birth and raised by her adoptive parents. She was unaware of her magical history until Prue's funeral at the beginning of season four, in which she goes on to help reconstitute The Charmed Ones by taking Prue's place in the Power of Three.[7] Her main power is telekinetic orbing: a combination of the prophesied telekinetic power as a Charmed sister and her own whitelighter DNA. As the series progresses, Paige also inherits a variety of whitelighter powers such as orbing herself and others, sensing, glamouring and healing.[15] One of the recurring struggles for Paige is finding an identity for herself outside of her role as a Charmed One. In the final season, she marries parole officer, Henry.