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seethem-dancing replied to your post: on That Scene in 06x10 “Chris-Crossed”

In regards to PL situation it was Piper using a spell that helped her switch powers with Leo who was a full Whitelighter. It was stated by Prue (and, later, Piper herself) that she needed to find LEO’S trigger in order to heal him. Leo’s trigger being love doesn’t mean every other whitelighter/half whitelighter has to have the same one. In 6X01 Chris specifically compared himself to Paige & her inability to heal (nearly breaking his half-Whitelighter cover) and neither Chris nor Paige at the time was able to heal their loved ones (when Paige develops her healing powers after healing Henry she is able to effortlessly heal Piper. But she was not able to do that in Used Karma when they were tending to each other’s wounds. Paige also had to get Phoebe to hospital in the Courtship of Wyatt’s Father & get Leo to heal her when Phoebe was shot by a patrol-man in 6X23. She couldn’t heal Leo & Chris when the latter was shot twice either not excluding after finding out Chris was her nephew. And it was established they were close in either timeline as Chris confirmed in Spin City. Chris was also not able to heal Paige in that scene in 6X01 and even during a particularly shocking & triggering moment in I Dream of Phoebe when Chris witnessed his aunts be killed in front of him again, like they were in the Dark Future. Chris was willing to go up against an entire Demonatrix assassin clan to save Phoebe & Paige - including confronting Vincent/Evil Mr Right who tried to kill him earlier; he was only stopped by Leo - therefore it’s not up for a debate that Chris loved & would do anything to save his aunts. Leo, conversely, was able to heal Piper in the already mentioned I Dream of Phoebe scene because he WAS a full Whitelighter & had already navigated his healing power). Even when Piper received Leo’s powers it took her an entire day to find his trigger and Leo nearly died. Chris had seconds before Wyatt comes to & tries to kill him again whereas Bianca was already terminally wounded & dying from internal bleeding (probably having less than a minute left to live given the table leg pierced her upper abdomen and chest). I don’t necessarily think Chris loved Bianca any less than she did him - if anything, his love was more aware, mature & healthy (which is ironic given Chris was younger than her). Bianca idealized Chris because he was the first person to treat her like an individual rather than object and/or means to end which is how she was treated by her mom, her coven and, later, Wyatt. Chris also inspired her to act on Bianca’s already persistent desire to abandon her toxic murderous assassin lifestyle (“[that’s] who I used to be, Chris. Before I met you”). While Bianca knew & accepted that she & Chris might not see each other again as the result of defying Wyatt & sending Chris back to past to fulfill their mission of saving Wyatt’s baby self from becoming a tyrant (“if I make it back”, “if [Wyatt] knows you betrayed him he’ll kill you”) she was willing to take away Chris’ agency & practice an outright violence on him & his family in a misguided attempt to save him. Knowing that A) Wyatt only “gave her his word” not to hurt Chris on a condition that Bianca turns Chris to his side. It took Chris to remind Bianca of the cause THEY had both been fighting & encourage her to not give up on it regardless of whether they’re together or not (highlighting that you have to be a good person for your own sake rather than for your partner - it was a subversion of Phoebe/Cole narrative in Look Who’s Barking where Cole admitted he was only good for Phoebe & that if she gives up on HIM he gives up on being good), to stand his ground even when powerless that they ever find their way back to each other in the new timeline or that she ever remembers the events of the original one). Chris always treated Bianca like an equal while remaining mindful of her checkered past, addressing his discomfort with it at one point and STILL respecting her as a partner (Chris doesn’t initiate any of their romantic moments until Bianca makes the first move & lets her take the lead when they sneak into the manor’s attic to send Chris back. He runs every step of the plan with her - and later highlights it was the mission THEY were both trying to accomplish “for their future” and that he doesn’t buy into Bianca’s sudden willingness to give up on it. Chris also does not question her when Bianca assures him she can take care of Wyatt’s demonic guards). In fact, it is Bianca who - twice - uses a manipulative tactic of “you come back to me, safely” and “you have to make it back. If you wanna marry me”. Conversely, as already stated, Chris always encouraged Bianca to remain true to her redemption and her principles regardless of whether they are involved or not. I don’t think they would have lasted as a long term relationship in either timeline because in the original one they evidently rushed their engagement due to not knowing whether they live to see another day. And additionally, there was an obvious power imbalance between 21-22 year old Chris (he spent approximately sixteen months in the past - going off of the six months of Piper not having any serious relationship after Leo as stated in Prince Charmed & Piper’s pregnancy - and died on his 23d b-day. So he had to be 21 when he & Bianca got engaged) vs 28/29 y/o Bianca. When they have their intimate “goodbye” moment in the basement it’s initiated by Bianca whereas Chris is momentarily caught off guard when she starts undressing. Their next kiss in the attic is a part of Bianca’s baiting, “you have to make it back” tactic to motivate him & Chris is shown to momentarily sway on the spot after that. So either they were never sexually involved before that day or their experiences in that department were vastly different. Bianca deserves to get her memories of the UF back - she and Chris BOTH died to make it better The people who aspire to invalidate the feelings they had for one another are typically the representatives of Bianca-hating, Cole-loving subset & their misogynistic double standards are glaring. In turn, this compels other people (i.e myself) to actively defend Bianca (which can be confusing to some) despite her only being on the show for one episode. IMO it’s not mandatory to ship Chris/Bianca to recognize that unlike Cole she DID genuinely redeem herself & went out as a hero.

Well, first of all, the original post was a meta for my interpretation of Chris on this blog, which is why it was just tagged with my meta tag and was not in the general tags. And if you’re going to write out an entire essay in the comments... it might just be easier to form a new post with a link back to the original and tag me in it. Otherwise, please stop coming onto my meta/headcanon posts that are meant for my roleplay muse and are not specifically canon to the show.

Second, Leo writes out an entire guide/letter addressed to Wyatt and Chris (+ future Whitelighters) on how to use their powers and states that “love is the key to your healing hands”. So, yes, I would say that love is the trigger for the healing power for all Whielighters and half-Whitelighters—and Chris does say it (healing) “is big and takes a while to learn how to do”. Paige was able to heal Leo in “Charmed & Dangerous” by tapping into Leo’s healing ability—that was the first time she’d ever tried healing. But basically, (as you noted with Piper/Leo and Paige/Henry) it seems that if a person isn’t a full Whitelighter, (to quote the TV Tropes’ Charmed Fridge page) they don’t have the same strength of love in them to use the Whitelighter healing power until they’ve found the love of their life and admitted it—either out loud or to themselves.

Yes, it’s true that Chris didn’t really have a whole lot of time to try to heal Bianca even if he’d wanted to, so I’ll give you that. I’ve already stated my thoughts on Chris/Bianca and the issues I have with their relationship from an out-of-universe perspective (which I need to do in a more concise meta/post at some point) so I’m not going to get into it again here other than to state that there was probably some subtle manipulation on both their parts, definitely a power imbalance, and Chris in general doesn’t seem all that interested in sex—which is why I headcanon him as greyasexual—and his reaction to Natalie in “Forget Me...Not” was out-of-character—one could argue that the way his relationship with Bianca was portrayed was also OOC, since his characterization in the flashbacks did not mesh with his prior characterization. As much as I like Bianca and think she’s an incredibly interesting character... it’s odd seeing Chris reduced solely to the love interest (which, I am all for subverting typical romantic tropes, but...).

As for Chris saying he and Paige are close in the future....

I tend to take anything he says regarding his aunts in the future with a huge grain of salt. Chris lies. A lot.

we already know from “Chris-Crossed” and “Hyde School Reunion” that Piper was killed on Chris’s 14th birthday, Victor raised him, and that all three of the Charmed Ones were dead by the time Chris was 21. True we don’t really know when Phoebe and Paige were killed, but if Victor was the one raising Chris after Piper died and Leo was busy with Elder duties. . . not to mention if one of the Charmed Ones are killed then the other two don’t last very long... I don’t think Paige and Phoebe would have lasted long after Piper was killed. A year, maybe two. And granted, this is all speculation, but...

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