cyma
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Post by cyma on Jul 9, 2014 2:01:29 GMT -5
From both their father's and mother's side? Unless Piper was being sarcastic, we got hint of them in the very first episode:
We got the invisible father, but what about the rest?
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Jul 9, 2014 7:44:39 GMT -5
You had Aunt Gale from season 2 'How To Make A Quilt' who got the sisters powers for the demon 'Cryto' so she and her friends could be young. Think she was related to Grams maybe as a sister don't know for certain.
And there was a mention of an Aunt Pearl who's couch Piper blew up in season 5 'Sense And Sensibility'. Not sure which side of the family she came from though.
Can't think of any others at moment unless I rewatched episodes again.
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Post by Astral Vision on Jul 9, 2014 8:34:49 GMT -5
As far as I remember, Aunt Gail was just a friend of Grams'. The only reason the sisters called her "aunt" was because she was a close family friend while they were growing up.
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Jul 9, 2014 13:15:33 GMT -5
Oh your probably right Astral Vision. Forgot that most likely knowing me. Ha, ha.
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Post by Deano on Jul 9, 2014 16:45:01 GMT -5
Piper mentioned a 'Great Aunt Sylvia' in Size Matters. She collected Hummel figurines.
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Post by Esmeralda on Jul 11, 2014 14:02:39 GMT -5
Well, keep in mind that in Season One, Victor was Victor Halliwell. As soon as he became Victor Bennett and and Halliwell women kept their maiden names (when Penny Johnson Halliwell didn't...), Patty suddenly became an only child, so we didn't see any aunts or cousins. But that's similar to whitelighters who could be/do anything their charges needed suddenly becoming magical doctor/taxicabs.
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Post by robert123 on Jul 16, 2014 20:42:33 GMT -5
I think that the family they mention is their mortal family, and since the sisters don't have much contact with their dad, I don't see why they could have just met the cousins, aunts and everything while they were little, and after Victor was out of the picture, also lost contact with all of their mortal family. So it makes sense that there are all these names of relatives who we don't know.
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Post by Esmeralda on Jul 17, 2014 8:19:20 GMT -5
You're probably right, except for the fact that since their father left when they were young they probably knew very little about their non-magical family. I hate calling non-magicals mortals. After all, Melinda Warren, Grams, Patty and Prue all prove that witches are mortal, too.
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Post by robert123 on Jul 17, 2014 12:57:54 GMT -5
Yeah, you're right,witches indeed ARE mortal too, I just got used to call anyone who wasn't a witch or supernatural being a mortal. And yes, they probably knew very little about them, but since Prue was around 8 years old when Victor left, she could remember a lot, and even if she didn't know a lot about her non-magical familiy, she most likely talked about it with Piper and Phoebe at some point, and since she was the oldest, she probably met a relative, so she could have mentioned their aunt Pearl, for example.
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Post by Esmeralda on Jul 17, 2014 13:30:44 GMT -5
The only aunt we know for sure is Patty's Aunt Phoebe who she named Phoebe for, but since according to the family tree, Grams only had a brother, Gordon, she probably meant her Great Aunt, who also would've actually been her second cousin once-removed, since again according to the tree, those three cousins from the 20's were all only children, so their children (Grams and the other children) would be second-cousins, making the two Phoebes second-cousins, once removed - but if they were all only children, I can see how Patty would consider her her aunt.
We only know that those first names started with a P; we don't know what their first names were. They might be named in books, but since they weren't named on the show, they're not canon. Most fans think one of them was Pearl and one was Patience (those are the names I hear the most often), but they're fanon, not canon.
And if the only place you read this is the Charmed wiki, for SURE it's just fanon!
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Post by robert123 on Jul 17, 2014 13:37:21 GMT -5
Yes, I know that, but I'm pretty sure that in an episode they mentioned an Aunt Pearl, I really don't remember why, but I do recall Phoebe (I think) saying something about an Aunt Pearl, its not something I picked up from the books or from the fans. I really remember it being said on the show. If I'm not right about the Aunt Pearl, then I'm sorry.
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Jul 17, 2014 13:41:58 GMT -5
You are right about Aunt Pearl robert123. In the season 5 episode 'Sense And Sensibility' when the sisters lost their senses after the monkey totem stole them Piper blew up 'Aunt Pearl's' couch which she thought was a Kazi demon at the time.
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Post by robert123 on Jul 17, 2014 14:49:55 GMT -5
Oh! Then that probably means she is from Patty's side of the family, it seems unlikely that there's a couch that belonged to a relative of Victor on the attic. Besides the fact that her name begins with a P, but it may have been just a coincidence. Although now I know that she probably was a witch
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Post by Esmeralda on Jul 17, 2014 15:01:09 GMT -5
You are right about Aunt Pearl robert123. In the season 5 episode 'Sense And Sensibility' when the sisters lost their senses after the monkey totem stole them Piper blew up 'Aunt Pearl's' couch which she thought was a Kazi demon at the time. Thank you so very much, melindahalliwell! I've heard other fans talk about Aunt Pearl's couch and wonder how they came up with the fact that it was hers. Although as I pointed out, despite being a "P", in order to be Aunt Pearl (just like Aunt Phoebe), since according to the family tree, Patty, Grams (except for her brother) and her mother, P. Baxter, were all only children, any aunts had to be on the other side. The other cousins couldn't be Aunt Pearl because they were Grams' mother's cousins, not sisters.
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Post by robert123 on Jul 17, 2014 21:37:32 GMT -5
Yes, thank you, melindahalliwell, for clearing that up. But like you said, Esmeralda, since P. Baxter was an only child, it's possible that Grams saw a cousin of her mother as Aunt.
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Post by ljones on Jul 28, 2014 17:37:51 GMT -5
Keeping their maiden names was a "tradition" that began with Patty . . . against her will, thanks to her mother who was a Johnson.
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Post by Chrisaholic on Jul 29, 2014 5:54:05 GMT -5
Wasn't there also an aunt mentioned in S8, I think, who only had one leg? I can be wrong since I can't remember exactly where and when it was. Correct if need be.
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Jul 29, 2014 13:19:19 GMT -5
There was the sister Alan Halliwell had who Paige looked like which he remarked on in 'Witchstock' if that counts.
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