Paige Matthews
Paige Matthews is a character from the television series Charmed. She is played by actress Rose McGowan.
Paige's Story Paige enters the Charmed storyline at the beginning of series four, after the death of her elder half sister Prudence. Paige is the illegitimate child of the Charmed mother Patricia Halliwell and her whitelighter Sam.
Paige did not come into her powers in full until Prudence died and was born to ensure the Charmed destiny was completed.
As the youngest sister, Paige tends to be adventurous, independent, and strong willed.
Paige has the power to "orb" herself and items in her environment... that is, cause them or herself to dematerialise in a glow of white light (commonly referred to as "orbs") and move at them or herself great speed (almost instantaneous.) For items in her environment she can orb the item but maintain its momentum, which is often used as a method of turning energy balls or Dark Lighter bolts against their wielder. Orbing is generally a power only associated with whitelighters, or their magical offspring.
Paige meets her new sisters at Prudence's funeral, despite never knowing Prudence.
After a shakey start with her other sisters, Paige learns quickly to use her new power to great effect. She particularly runs into difficulty with the distrustful Piper, who has a great deal of difficulty to coming to terms with Prudence's death. Phoebe, naturally more trusting, regularly represents Paige when Piper becomes overly distrustful.
Having to deal with harassing co-workers, Paige tried to turn to magic to make things better. She borrowed the Book of Shadows, but found it difficult to control. She cured a co-worker of his acne and did other minor spells, which worked okay. When she cursed a harassing co-worker with unwanted attention from women, the spell backfired and made her breasts grow to enormous size, giving her the same unwanted attention. Phoebe was able to reverse the effects in time for the two of them to confront Piper, who was being turned into a Fury.
Paige then started her witch training. She learned potion basics under Piper, but when practicing a potion she accidentally created a spell that swapped her soul with Phoebe's. Although they tried to keep it a secret while they swapped souls back again, they had to confront the evil zen student Yenlo trying to kill his former master. They traveled to limbo and defeated Yenlo after swapping souls back.
Having learned that magic and supernatural evil were real, Paige decided to investigate an old house that had always creeped her out. In doing so she learned it was really the home of the demon Gammill and that her friend Finn was Gammill's golem creation. She tired to protect Finn, but Gammill killed his creation for helping Paige. The demon was a collector of ceramic figurines made of shrunken women. He shrunk Phoebe and later got Piper and Paige too, but the three sisters were able to defeat and vanquish him, which returned them to their original size.
Paige then started dating a man named Glen, who she told a story she thought she remembered from her childhood about an Evil Enchantress who stole the love of a prince with magic. Meanwhile a Shocker demon started hunting the Charmed Ones. When Paige looked the Evil Enchantress up in the Book of Shadows, she discovered an entry on her and the spell used to control the prince. Upon speaking the spell the prince was called forward in time to be with Paige, who he thought was the Enchantress, and he loved dearly because of the spell. Phoebe and Piper then reasoned that Paige was the Enchantress reincarnated. The Evil Enchantress then went forward in time, following her prince. She attacked the Charmed Ones and took the prince back to her time, but followed by Phoebe and Piper. Phoebe and Piper were captured because they lacked powers in the past. Paige was able to craft a spell to bring herself and Leo back to their time. Leo freed Piper and Phoebe as Paige used the Enchantresses powers against her. The sisters then bound the Enchantresses powers and returned to their own time.
Despite being turned into a vampire, Paige survives her first year as a member of the Halliwell family relatively unscathed, and eventually moves into the Halliwell Manor
Paige begins to truly feel like a member of a family after being whisked through Piper and Leo's (Piper's whitelighter husband) history by a spell gone awry.
During this series Paige naturalises somewhat to being a witch, quits her full time career as a social worker and turns her attentions to full time witchcraft, determined to play catch up on her more experienced sisters.
When the Halliwell home started to suffer from hauntings due to all the past evil killed there, Piper summoned a witch doctor to cleanse the home. Although the witch doctor did his job, he was worried about the power the sisters commanded and their susceptibility to all that evil. The council of witch doctors decided it was best for the world if they got rid of the sisters, so they cast a voodoo spell on them, hoping their obsessions would destroy them. Paige became obsessed with marrying her old boyfriend Glen, going so far as to kidnap his bride to be and impersonating her.
She also helps Piper deliver her newphew Wyatt Matthew Halliwell, with his middle name being taken from Paige after she went to great lengths to save him from a demonic attack.
Leo makes Paige the Charmed Goddess of War, like Eris and Enyo, to battle the Titans.
After being temporarily turned into the godess of war at the end of series five, Paige decides to stop being a full time witch and decides to take on temping work. In this capacity she comes across innocents to help in most of her positions.
She also forms a strong bond with Chris Halliwell, her nephew who had travelled back from the future to prevent his older brother Wyatt from being turned to evil.
Realizing that there is not much excitement in her life and that Magic School was about to be closed, Paige decided to dedicate her time to saving it, as well as teaching the students the values and responsibility of magic. In doing that, the Elders had made her the headmistress of Magic School.
Paige has a romantic interest in Agent Kyle Brody.
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