Post by Esmeralda on Sept 6, 2016 13:11:49 GMT -5
Well, as I said, I really don't think it fits the topic that well - and I love what Sol set up - but if you're curious, here's how I see Season Six:
I wrote this the summer after S6, when all the Chris-fans were writing these fics about Chris' backstory and that were supposed to show why Chris was the way he was. Although some of those fics are amongst my all-time favorite fics, they didn't quite sit right with me...none of them seemed to truly explain why Chris was the way he was or why the things that happened during "Oh, My Goddess!" and S6 happened or let Chris, Leo, Gideon, Wyatt, Bianca, Piper, Phoebe and Paige be the characters I saw during "Oh, My Goddess" and S6, since I never saw any of them as heroic, especially Chris, and most of those stories made him out to be the ultimate Gary Stu.
So I decided to write my own fic.... And although S7 & S8 proved that there's no way my ideas could be true, hence the reason why these are ideas would be for an alternate reality fanfic only, it's still what I would've liked to have seen as Chris' true backstory, but a fic I never did write - I couldn't figure out how to do this, but remains
FAIR WARNING! Any hardcore Chris-fan will probably want to stop right here; I can practically guarantee that you're not going to like it.
Well, whatcha think? I warned you it was long! But wouldn't that have made a much more dramatic, interesting *CONSISTENT* backstory for Chris? Although as I said - I do like Sol's ideas better.
I wrote this the summer after S6, when all the Chris-fans were writing these fics about Chris' backstory and that were supposed to show why Chris was the way he was. Although some of those fics are amongst my all-time favorite fics, they didn't quite sit right with me...none of them seemed to truly explain why Chris was the way he was or why the things that happened during "Oh, My Goddess!" and S6 happened or let Chris, Leo, Gideon, Wyatt, Bianca, Piper, Phoebe and Paige be the characters I saw during "Oh, My Goddess" and S6, since I never saw any of them as heroic, especially Chris, and most of those stories made him out to be the ultimate Gary Stu.
So I decided to write my own fic.... And although S7 & S8 proved that there's no way my ideas could be true, hence the reason why these are ideas would be for an alternate reality fanfic only, it's still what I would've liked to have seen as Chris' true backstory, but a fic I never did write - I couldn't figure out how to do this, but remains
FAIR WARNING! Any hardcore Chris-fan will probably want to stop right here; I can practically guarantee that you're not going to like it.
In my version, in the original timeline, Piper saves Paige from the Titans when she comes running into the attic, exploding the Titan before either Paige or Phoebe look her in the eyes (the reason Chris remembers Paige giving him money - Paige's death was a lie, just like just about everything else Chris told them in "Oh, My Goddess."). The sisters figure out who the Titans are really after and since they aren't distracted by Chris, Leo is able to go Up There and warn the Elders before they are murdered, so it is *those* Elders (including Gideon) who turn the girls into goddesses, who are able to vanquish the Titans with their whitelighter's (Leo) help. After their great victory, Piper and Leo celebrate, conceiving Chris. That’s why S6 Chris came back to that time.
What’s different? Keep reading!
With Leo not vanquished to Valhalla and not an Elder, but still The Charmed Ones' whitelighter and with his family and not distracted by wondering who vanquished him to Valhalla (all Chris ever was was a huge distraction), Leo is able to pick up on what Gideon is up to and is able to bring it up to the Elder Council, who agree that Gideon's idea to kill Wyatt for the sake of the Cosmic Good is not a good one, but an evil one, and they recycle Gideon’s soul, rather than Leo’s as Gideon suggested, also allowing Leo to remain a whitelighter.
Hence, no evil Wyatt or absentee father - instead, just a jealous Chris, who feels that his whitelighter father loves and gives attention to everyone except him, and that he especially gives more attention to his older brother, the Twice-Blessed Child. (He's right--Leo does. Since Chris only has TK, Leo spends a lot more time with Wyatt, making sure that his older son knows how to properly handle his Twice-Blessed powers.)
Chris' mother is still alive, so are his aunts, and his brother is good. The only one with a problem is a very jealous younger brother, who lied when he said he was in his 20's - he's just 14 and acts it, just like he did in S6. The fact that he is heavily influenced by his Phoenix assassin girlfriend--who is the one who's 21 (remember how old she is in "ChrisCrossed", and that's before Chris was even conceived) and who he doesn’t love, but who he started going with because his parents, especially his father, didn’t want him to - doesn’t help one bit.
Bianca thinks the solution is easy - she'll kill Wyatt.
But Chris doesn’t like that idea - he figures his family would figure it out and hate him, Chris, worse.
So he does something else.
And *that’s* the *first* time that Chris goes back in time, wanting to be sure that Gideon will survive, so Gideon can turn Chris' brother evil, so everyone will hate his brother and love him, Chris, instead.
Like S6 Chris, he decides the best way to do this is to become the Charmed Ones' whitelighter, but unlike S6 Chris, he does it more to keep the sisters busy chasing demons, so they won’t be aware of what Gideon is doing - Chris knows his family history; he knows it will be Gideon who tries to turn Wyatt, not a demon. So he decides to use the Titans' attack as an excuse to turn his father into an Elder, so Leo won’t be around. Then, to be sure that his father doesn’t catch on to what Gideon is up to, as Leo would if he were Up There, Bianca suggests vanquishing Leo to Valhalla, which is where Wyatt has been training.
Chris agrees to go back earlier, so he can arrange that with the Valkyries. Chris and Bianca figure out their cover story (including his using her last name - Perry - as his own - his full name is Christopher Victor Halliwell) and she also uses a spell to make Chris *look* and *sound* older, figuring no one will believe a 14-year-old.
So Chris goes back.
However, things didn't go the way he planned (I know, so what else is new; the reason the original title for this story was "Chris Halliwell--Screwup").
First, of course, turning his father into an Elder means that Leo and Piper can’t celebrate the victory and conceive Little Chris. (I'm using a different version of time travel, one that makes more sense to me than the one used during S6 but not used during in other seasons, where you continue to live even if something happens to a younger version of yourself - it only affects that younger version, not the current version. The only time you fade is when your actions in the past change the future *so* much that your own future is no longer possible, so you can't return to it.)
Instead Little Chris is conceived in the Ghostly Plane, the only time Piper an Leo get a chance to be together. That’s why S6 Chris - this Little Chris grown up - came back to the time of the Titans. Only after Chris turned Leo into an Elder, putting Leo Up There telling Piper that he couldn't come back, when he should've been busy conceiving Chris with Piper, did the timeline change, so Baby Chris was conceived later - the reason S6 Chris had to do so much checking to find out.
Also, Chris underestimates the Charmed Ones, who like their S6 versions, manage to rescue Leo from Valhalla. Also, like S6 Chris, he ends up loving his "little big brother" and tries to stop what he’s put into motion, acting pretty much like S6 Chris, except he never hates his father, who is starting to distrust him for sending him to Valhalla, since unlike S6 Leo, he and the sisters *do* figure that out - they're much smarter and much less dense than the S6 versions.
Because thanks to that visit to Valhalla, where Leo was taught how to hate and how to fight and how to kill, Leo turns evil when he murders Gideon thanks to Chris' death and it's HE who turns Wyatt evil! When Gideon tells Leo that Leo doesn’t understand what he’s doing, Gideon is absolutely right! (It was that line of Gideon's that inspired that idea).
Leo doesn't turn Chris evil - Chris is too much his mother's son and Leo wants Wyatt's Twice-Blessed (not Twice-Cursed) powers, so the evil father and son start setting up their kingdom while appearing to be good to the rest of the family - when it comes to family, the Halliwells are very dense, just think Cole...
However, Chris finally catches on when he's 14 and when Leo tries to turn Chris evil, Piper finds out. She tries to protect her younger son from her husband and Leo ends up murdering Piper! Chris manages to escape and ends up hooking up with Bianca. When Leo and Wyatt go on a killing spree - killing the other Charmed Ones, killing the Elders, trying to find and kill Chris - Chris goes back again, once more under a spell to look older because he's still 14, not in his 20's, trying to either save or destroy both his father and his brother.
This is why Chris hates his father and his brother - the father and brother he remembers are truly evil, but he doesn't want to tell his mothers or aunts because he doesn't think they'd ever believe him.
THIS is the start of Season Six.
A few months after Chris' death, Phoebe and Paige (who are smarter than their S6-S8 TV counterparts) realize that Leo has turned evil, and try to figure out how to change it. They realize that if Chris hadn’t come back and vanquished Leo to Valhalla (unlike the show, they know about that; as I said, they're smarter and less dense than their TV counterparts), no way Leo would’ve been changed and gone against his own whitelighter/Elder nature and murder. (This is how I knew that this couldn't be part of S7 - not with how evil *those* Elders are - even more demonic than the demons!)
That’s when they decide to use the time-spell to go to the future and tell Chris the whole story just before he goes back. Bianca talks him into listening to them first and after hearing it, they both agree - even knowing what that it means sacrificing himself (or so he thinks), Chris agrees not to go back - true heroism, because *THAT'S* when Chris fades, because *that's* why he has absolutely no chance of becoming the S5/S6 version of himself.
Instead, a different, nicer, non-lying, non-whiney, non-self-centered version of Chris appears, and Paige and Phoebe know that they will succeed, so they use the spell to go back to just before the Titans' attack.
By Chris agreeing to not go back, the original timeline is restored, with one major difference, the difference that allowed that new Chris to appear.
Since Paige and Phoebe stuck around until after that version appeared, although they blend back into the original versions of themselves, they retain the memory of everything that has happened and are able to tell their sister and brother-in-law what could happen if Leo and Piper lavish all of their attention on one son, and not the other.
So Piper and Leo make sure that Chris gets just as much attention as his brother despite not being the Twice-Blessed Child, so the two brothers are friends the way brothers are supposed to be, and the Halliwells go back to fighting evil and rescuing innocents, rather than just worrying about their own family, all thanks to Chris' ultimate sacrifice.
What’s different? Keep reading!
With Leo not vanquished to Valhalla and not an Elder, but still The Charmed Ones' whitelighter and with his family and not distracted by wondering who vanquished him to Valhalla (all Chris ever was was a huge distraction), Leo is able to pick up on what Gideon is up to and is able to bring it up to the Elder Council, who agree that Gideon's idea to kill Wyatt for the sake of the Cosmic Good is not a good one, but an evil one, and they recycle Gideon’s soul, rather than Leo’s as Gideon suggested, also allowing Leo to remain a whitelighter.
Hence, no evil Wyatt or absentee father - instead, just a jealous Chris, who feels that his whitelighter father loves and gives attention to everyone except him, and that he especially gives more attention to his older brother, the Twice-Blessed Child. (He's right--Leo does. Since Chris only has TK, Leo spends a lot more time with Wyatt, making sure that his older son knows how to properly handle his Twice-Blessed powers.)
Chris' mother is still alive, so are his aunts, and his brother is good. The only one with a problem is a very jealous younger brother, who lied when he said he was in his 20's - he's just 14 and acts it, just like he did in S6. The fact that he is heavily influenced by his Phoenix assassin girlfriend--who is the one who's 21 (remember how old she is in "ChrisCrossed", and that's before Chris was even conceived) and who he doesn’t love, but who he started going with because his parents, especially his father, didn’t want him to - doesn’t help one bit.
Bianca thinks the solution is easy - she'll kill Wyatt.
But Chris doesn’t like that idea - he figures his family would figure it out and hate him, Chris, worse.
So he does something else.
And *that’s* the *first* time that Chris goes back in time, wanting to be sure that Gideon will survive, so Gideon can turn Chris' brother evil, so everyone will hate his brother and love him, Chris, instead.
Like S6 Chris, he decides the best way to do this is to become the Charmed Ones' whitelighter, but unlike S6 Chris, he does it more to keep the sisters busy chasing demons, so they won’t be aware of what Gideon is doing - Chris knows his family history; he knows it will be Gideon who tries to turn Wyatt, not a demon. So he decides to use the Titans' attack as an excuse to turn his father into an Elder, so Leo won’t be around. Then, to be sure that his father doesn’t catch on to what Gideon is up to, as Leo would if he were Up There, Bianca suggests vanquishing Leo to Valhalla, which is where Wyatt has been training.
Chris agrees to go back earlier, so he can arrange that with the Valkyries. Chris and Bianca figure out their cover story (including his using her last name - Perry - as his own - his full name is Christopher Victor Halliwell) and she also uses a spell to make Chris *look* and *sound* older, figuring no one will believe a 14-year-old.
So Chris goes back.
However, things didn't go the way he planned (I know, so what else is new; the reason the original title for this story was "Chris Halliwell--Screwup").
First, of course, turning his father into an Elder means that Leo and Piper can’t celebrate the victory and conceive Little Chris. (I'm using a different version of time travel, one that makes more sense to me than the one used during S6 but not used during in other seasons, where you continue to live even if something happens to a younger version of yourself - it only affects that younger version, not the current version. The only time you fade is when your actions in the past change the future *so* much that your own future is no longer possible, so you can't return to it.)
Instead Little Chris is conceived in the Ghostly Plane, the only time Piper an Leo get a chance to be together. That’s why S6 Chris - this Little Chris grown up - came back to the time of the Titans. Only after Chris turned Leo into an Elder, putting Leo Up There telling Piper that he couldn't come back, when he should've been busy conceiving Chris with Piper, did the timeline change, so Baby Chris was conceived later - the reason S6 Chris had to do so much checking to find out.
Also, Chris underestimates the Charmed Ones, who like their S6 versions, manage to rescue Leo from Valhalla. Also, like S6 Chris, he ends up loving his "little big brother" and tries to stop what he’s put into motion, acting pretty much like S6 Chris, except he never hates his father, who is starting to distrust him for sending him to Valhalla, since unlike S6 Leo, he and the sisters *do* figure that out - they're much smarter and much less dense than the S6 versions.
Because thanks to that visit to Valhalla, where Leo was taught how to hate and how to fight and how to kill, Leo turns evil when he murders Gideon thanks to Chris' death and it's HE who turns Wyatt evil! When Gideon tells Leo that Leo doesn’t understand what he’s doing, Gideon is absolutely right! (It was that line of Gideon's that inspired that idea).
Leo doesn't turn Chris evil - Chris is too much his mother's son and Leo wants Wyatt's Twice-Blessed (not Twice-Cursed) powers, so the evil father and son start setting up their kingdom while appearing to be good to the rest of the family - when it comes to family, the Halliwells are very dense, just think Cole...
However, Chris finally catches on when he's 14 and when Leo tries to turn Chris evil, Piper finds out. She tries to protect her younger son from her husband and Leo ends up murdering Piper! Chris manages to escape and ends up hooking up with Bianca. When Leo and Wyatt go on a killing spree - killing the other Charmed Ones, killing the Elders, trying to find and kill Chris - Chris goes back again, once more under a spell to look older because he's still 14, not in his 20's, trying to either save or destroy both his father and his brother.
This is why Chris hates his father and his brother - the father and brother he remembers are truly evil, but he doesn't want to tell his mothers or aunts because he doesn't think they'd ever believe him.
THIS is the start of Season Six.
A few months after Chris' death, Phoebe and Paige (who are smarter than their S6-S8 TV counterparts) realize that Leo has turned evil, and try to figure out how to change it. They realize that if Chris hadn’t come back and vanquished Leo to Valhalla (unlike the show, they know about that; as I said, they're smarter and less dense than their TV counterparts), no way Leo would’ve been changed and gone against his own whitelighter/Elder nature and murder. (This is how I knew that this couldn't be part of S7 - not with how evil *those* Elders are - even more demonic than the demons!)
That’s when they decide to use the time-spell to go to the future and tell Chris the whole story just before he goes back. Bianca talks him into listening to them first and after hearing it, they both agree - even knowing what that it means sacrificing himself (or so he thinks), Chris agrees not to go back - true heroism, because *THAT'S* when Chris fades, because *that's* why he has absolutely no chance of becoming the S5/S6 version of himself.
Instead, a different, nicer, non-lying, non-whiney, non-self-centered version of Chris appears, and Paige and Phoebe know that they will succeed, so they use the spell to go back to just before the Titans' attack.
By Chris agreeing to not go back, the original timeline is restored, with one major difference, the difference that allowed that new Chris to appear.
Since Paige and Phoebe stuck around until after that version appeared, although they blend back into the original versions of themselves, they retain the memory of everything that has happened and are able to tell their sister and brother-in-law what could happen if Leo and Piper lavish all of their attention on one son, and not the other.
So Piper and Leo make sure that Chris gets just as much attention as his brother despite not being the Twice-Blessed Child, so the two brothers are friends the way brothers are supposed to be, and the Halliwells go back to fighting evil and rescuing innocents, rather than just worrying about their own family, all thanks to Chris' ultimate sacrifice.
Well, whatcha think? I warned you it was long! But wouldn't that have made a much more dramatic, interesting *CONSISTENT* backstory for Chris? Although as I said - I do like Sol's ideas better.
