Christy Jenkins


 * "Please. What do you know? You were raised by Demons, for God's sake." - Phoebe Halliwell to Christy

Christy Jenkins and her younger sister Billie (daughters of Helen and Carl Jenkins) were both witches, albeit ones that manifested their powers later in life than normal. Both of their parents (ordinary mortals with no magical powers) were the product of unions between a witch and a mortal, resulting in normal human children with latent witch genes; this caused the delay in gaining their powers. Christy is also a separate magical species known as a Firestarter.

Captivity
When she was seven years old, Christy was kidnapped by a demon named Reinhardt and placed under the supervision of Scather Demons. The Scathers kept Christy safe in the Underworld in preparation for the return of the Triad, a trio of powerful upper-level demons. The Triad masterminded Christy's kidnapping because they believed that she and her younger sister were the key to the "Ultimate Power ." They believed that if they were somehow able to harness the Jenkinses' power, it would be enough to tip the scales from good to evil. They brainwashed her, and trained to believe that evil was good and vice versa, with the help of Dumain, a demon who had been Christy's imaginary friend.

After rescue
Billie had been searching for Christy for the better part of 15 years before finding her in the underworld in 2006. With the help of the Charmed Ones, Billie begins teaching Christy how to control her powers. At one point Christy seemed to have been re-kidnapped by the same Scather demons sent by the Triad while in Billie's care, but Billie goes back after her to save her. While they are both down in the Underworld, Billie convinces Christy to use her powers to vanquish the demons. Together, with Christy's pyrokinetic powers and Billie's telekinetic powers, they kill the demons.

Working with the Triad
What neither Billie nor the Charmed Ones know is that Christy is working hand in glove with the Triad. Over the years, the Triad and the Source made numerous attempts to kill the Charmed Ones, most notably by sending Cole Turner/Belthazor after them. Sometime before Christy's "release," Dumain, an upper-level demon who had been an "imaginary friend" of the Jenkins sisters during their childhood, persuaded the Triad to let Christy be rescued, with the goal of turning Billie against the Charmed Ones. He believed that if Christy succeeded in convincing Billie that the Charmed Ones were evil, their magic combined with the Triad's would be more than the Charmed Ones could handle. He also believed both sets of sisters would die in the ensuing battle, allowing the Triad to return. The Triad liked this audacious idea enough that they promised to make Dumain one of them should it succeed.

It is originally believed that the Triad are the major threat the Halliwell sisters are supposed to face. This is not the case, as Leo Wyatt, Piper's husband, is not returned by the Angel of Destiny after two of them are vanquished. The remaining Triad member, Candor, reminds Christy that Billie is the 'ultimate power,' and she must "save" her (in other words, turn her against the Charmed Ones). When Candor suspects that Christy is wavering, he sends Noxon Demons to kill her parents. When Christy finds this out, she angrily kills them. Before Candor dies, he tells Christy that she has passed her "final test."

Christy sees an opening to turn Billie against the Charmed Ones when it seems that they are more concerned with finding Leo than tracking down the Noxons. With Dumain's help, she convinces Billie that the Charmed Ones need to be stopped before their powers corrupt them.

Ultimate Power
Billie and Christy face the Charmed Ones in the manor with both sides empowered by the supernatural force called the Hollow. It takes "Charmed power" to summon the Hollow, so Billie and Christy have Piper and Leo's baby son, Wyatt, hold hands with them while they chant the summoning spell. The Jenkinses then took Wyatt's powers. As a result, both sets of sisters are evenly matched. The power between them shoots out in all directions, blowing the manor to bits and killing Phoebe, Paige, and Christy. Billie and Piper are the only survivors. After the battle, The Hollow returns to its containment.

Following this destruction, the Angel of Destiny brings back Leo, who stopped Piper from killing Billie. Piper goes into the past to fix the present. After leaving the destroyed manor, Billie returns to Magic School, with Dumain. He suggests that she project herself into the past so they can get the Hollow before the Charmed Ones do. When Dumain tries to get her to focus on the Triad rather than her sister, however, Billie realizes that she and Christy have been tricked and returns to the side of the Charmed Ones.

Leo and Piper travel through time to fix what happened, and with the help of Piper's grandmother Penny and mother Patty recreate the Power of Three to send away the Hollow just as the battle starts. Billie tells Christy that they are being used, and tries to persuade her to reverse their course. Christy refuses and goes back to Magic School, even after Billie tells her Dumain tried to get her to go to the Triad first. A disillusioned Billie realizes her sister has turned into a killer, and that Christy has been manipulating her as well.



Dumain steals Coop's ring, and he and Christy use it to travel back in time to warn the Triad about the possibility of the Charmed Ones getting the Hollow. Just as they arrive, Billie and the Charmed Ones arrive using Billie's projection power, and vanquish the Triad and both past and present Dumain. Billie tries one last time to convince Christy to reject evil. In an act of rage, Christy launches a huge fireball at Billie and the Charmed Ones. Billie telekinetically deflects it back at Christy in self-defense, vaporizing her. After killing her sister, Billie immediately breaks down since her entire family is now gone.

Powers and Abilities
Christy possesses two very rare and coveted active powers: Telepathy and Pyrokinesis.

Telepathy
Her telepathic powers allows her to hear thoughts and project her own, and was one of the most advanced versions of that power shown on the show. Like the Source she can use it to communicate mentally between dimensions, maintaining constant contact with her demon masters, and sense incoming demonic attacks, as seen when she started screaming and demons intent on capturing her shimmered in. She was able to use it to eavesdrop on the Charmed Ones' thoughts from Magic School, and even channel the effects of the spell they were casting through it.

Pyrokinesis
As a Firestarter, her pyrokinetic powers allow her to mentally cause objects and beings to burst into flame. Her ability is advanced enough that she can cause beings to heat up from the inside and blow up. She is shown to have enough control to reduce a demon to ash while not harming the surrounding area with her flame, and burn a rope tying her hands behind her back while blindfolded, and not burn herself. She was also able to free herself from a demonic crystal cage by focusing her fire powers, kill a nearby demon, and throw a former Triad member a considerable distance from the resulting blast. In later episodes of the season, she displayed the ability to not only generate but also manipulate flame. She could generate fireballs by focusing her power midair, and later still to propel her fireballs without the aid of her telekinetic sister Billie, propelling one of her own.

It is possible Christy might have possessed enhanced strength, as she killed an upper-level Triad demon by impaling him with her arm, through his abdomen - a power never demonstrated by another witch during the show's run. By comparison, it took Piper three attempts to vanquish one Triad member with her power of molecular combustion.

True nature
Unlike most of the evil beings the Charmed Ones faced over the years, Christy appears to sincerely believe she is doing good. During her fifteen years in captivity, the Scather Demons, the Triad and Dumain managed to severely warp Christy's sense of good and evil--much like the Source of All Evil tried to do with Paige Matthews when she first came into her powers. By the time she was freed, she thought that the Triad were actually on the side of good and the Charmed Ones were evil. She briefly turned Billie against the Charmed Ones by making her think that the Charmed Ones were no longer concerned about the greater good, and were in fact on the verge of being corrupted by their power. This makes it appear that Christy still had some good left in her.

Also supporting this theory is that the Triad was concerned they might lose their hold on her after she was rescued. The Triad warned her not to get too close to the Charmed Ones, even though she seemed to be visibly uncomfortable with the affection they were showering on her. They also seemed to be concerned that she was getting too close to her parents when they came over from San Francisco. Ultimately, they sent the Noxon Demons to murder her parents. Christy seemed to be genuinely outraged at this, enough that she killed the surviving Triad member, Candor. Additionally, Dumain believed all along that Billie and Christy would die in the battle with the Charmed Ones. This doesn't seem to track, as it would seem that if the Triad wanted to return to power, it wouldn't make sense for them not to want a powerful evil witch on their side.

Toward the end, however, Christy's personality does show signs of darkening. She didn't appear to have any qualms about taking Wyatt's powers, unlike Billie. As mentioned above, she was still determined to kill the Charmed Ones even when Billie told her the Triad and Dumain had been using them as pawns all along. Ultimately, she was willing to kill her own sister for her perceived betrayal.

Appearances
Christy Jenkins appeared in a total of 10 episodes throughout the course of the series.

References and External Links
Christy Jenkins Profile at Wikipedia