katikat | 30 Days Relationship Challenge #14

Wyatt & Chris Halliwell, Charmed

Before Sam and Dean came around, Chris and Wyatt were my favorite TV brothers. They were in just two episodes together, their adult selves, I mean, one S6 ep and one S8 ep, IIRC, but their relationship fascinated me to no end.

When Wyatt went bad, like really Evil Incarnate bad, he killed or enslaved every witch out there, his family included. Everyone but his younger brother Chris. Sure, he put Chris under surveillance but he let him lose. And even after Chris escaped into the past, Wyatt sent Bianca not to kill him but to bring him back. And even THEN, when she did bring him back, Wyatt didn't try all that hard to kill Chris, even after Chris refused to side with him again. I mean, Wyatt was Twice Blessed, he could've wiped the floor clean with Chris if he wanted. But did he? No, of course not. I wonder why he wanted so badly for Chris to join him, it felt like he was above the whole friends and family thing...

And Chris. Chris was the woobie to end all woobies. His story, his first death... they made me cry like a baby. He was my favorite character. He risked his life and died to save his brother and the whole future - the scene in which Chris was killed and Leo totally lost it is still my favorite! - but he was definitely no push-over. He did what he had to, sometimes even bad things, but knowing what was to come, he couldn't stop. I loved that he loved, no, adored his brother but he wasn't blind to Wyatt's faults. As he said, "If I can't save you, I swear to God I'll stop you." Even though I think it would've destroyed him, emotionally, I mean.

The last episode of the series, where they both appeared, coming back from the future, was all I could wish for, regarding them, I mean. Though it looked like Chris remembered what happened to him, didn't he? He remembered grams, after all. And he did seem... older, wiser than Wyatt despite being younger, didn't he? Like he has lived his life twice already...

Yeah, these two give me FEELINGS! *hands*