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“ I'm trying to help you avoid the error of my ways. Tell yourself a different story. You can shred, Maggie. ”
— Parker inspiring Maggie to believe in herself


Parker Wagner-Caine[8] is the once half-demon son of the demon Alastor and the mortal Julia Wagner, and was the younger paternal half-brother of Hunter Caine and Abigael Jameson-Caine. Since he was a demon born of a human, Parker was a potential candidate to become the host for the Source of All Evil. Therefore, Parker's father wanted to release the Source so that Parker could host him, making their family the most powerful in the Underworld. However, Parker became conflicted because of his feelings for Maggie Vera since releasing the Source involved hurting the Charmed Ones. Alastor's plan ultimately failed, when Macy Vaughn took on the Source instead. Parker later became the Demon Overlord, and his goal as the Overlord was to conclude the war between witches and demons once and for all.

To everyone else, Parker was a former student at Hilltowne University and the former president of the Phi Delta Upsilon fraternity. Parker was the ex-boyfriend of Lucy. He and Maggie were engaged, but Maggie broke off the engagement shortly after. Parker, who believed Maggie was cheating on him, went berserk and attempted to kill Jordan Chase before he was imprisoned by his half-sister in part of her scheme to take over as the Demon Overlord, left presumed to have been killed. He was later released from the dungeon, gave up his powers, and decided to live a mortal life away from demons and magic.

Parker was a member of the Caine Family.

History[]

Early Life[]

Parker was born to a demon father Alastor and a mortal mother Julia Wagner. He joined Hilltowne University where he became the president of the Phi Delta Upsilon fraternity and started dating the president of Kappa Tau Kappa, Lucy. When the Charmed Ones were constituted, Parker and his half-brother were assigned various roles to help in his father's mission to raise The Source of All Evil. Part of Parker's role was to infiltrate the Charmed Ones through Maggie.

Throughout the Series[]

In Sweet Tooth, Parker runs into Maggie at a restaurant and defends her from a rude customer. During the Halloween party at the Vera Manor, Lucy introduces Parker as her boyfriend.

In Exorcise Your Demons, Parker is asked by Lucy to help Maggie study so that she can focus on Kappa. Parker and Maggie start developing feelings for each other. Later on, Parker mysteriously shows up when the Charmed Ones are exorcizing the Harbinger of Hell. Without time to think, Maggie quickly kisses Parker to distract him from finding out what the sisters are up to.

In Other Women, Lucy starts suspecting that Parker is cheating on her. She asks Maggie to help figure it out, not knowing that Maggie is the other woman. So, Maggie asks Parker to stay apart but Parker makes it clear that he wants her and not Lucy. This leads to Parker and Lucy's break up.

In Out of Scythe, Maggie starts having romantic dreams with Parker. When she meets up with Parker, Parker tells her that Lucy gave them an okay to date because she has already moved on. However, Maggie overhears Parker's thinking that he doesn't want Maggie to find out the truth about him. This gets Maggie concerned. She starts investigating to figure out what Parker is hiding. She goes to the fraternity house and finds Parker injecting himself with a needle. She assumes that he is doing drugs and runs away. Later on, Parker comes to explain himself to Maggie. He says that he was taking medicine because of a rare disease that he does not want people to find out about. Maggie concludes that is the secret Parker was keeping from her. They both share a passionate kiss.

It turns out, Parker set up the entire thing to manipulate Maggie from finding the real truth that he's hiding from her. It is revealed that he is the shadow demon that the Charmed Ones had been trying to stop from stealing the Scythe of Tartarus. He was on a mission from his father, Alastor to retrieve the scythe from the sisters so that they can use it to open the can holding the Harbinger of Hell in order to help raise The Source of All Evil. But he failed. And his father is very angry about it. He keeps comparing Parker to his overachieving full-demon brother, Hunter. Parker apologizes to his father and promises to try better.

In Bug a Boo, Alastor is angry at Parker because he keeps failing all the missions assigned to him. He has issues with the fact that Parker is only half-demon and is afraid that Parker's human side is affecting his performance. Hunter defends Parker from their father's harshness. Alastor sends Parker on a mission to retrieve the blood of a Charmed One as part of their mission. He asks him to manipulate Maggie's telepathy. Parker tries to convince Maggie to take an internship at his father's company since all interns must submit a blood sample for testing. He fails to convince Maggie. Later, Hunter (in the guise of a waitress) is visiting Parker in the restaurant and instructs him to find a way to complete his mission. Eventually, he comes up with a better idea—He tells Maggie that he needs a plasma transplant for his condition but he doesn't have many potential blood donors since he's keeping the condition a secret. So, he asks Maggie if she could get tested to see if she could donate blood to him. Maggie agrees to get tested and give her blood to Parker.

In Jingle Hell, Parker and his older brother go to Bucharest to find the amulet on their father's order. He gives the amulet to Maggie as a Christmas present in his ploy to steal the Charmed Ones' powers, but upon realizing his own feelings for Maggie, he removes the amulet, thus restoring their powers. When Hunter breaks out a fight in the manor's backyard, Parker exposes his powers and identity in front of the sisters in an attempt to protect them. He then tries to explain to Maggie, but she refuses to listen. Hunter later returns to settle the score, but Parker comes to their rescue and tries to banish Hunter to hell. However, he grows weaker with each attempt and the sisters help out. Though they succeed in banishing Hunter, Harry is pulled in as well.

In Keep Calm and Harry On, within a week after the events of spoiled Christmas, Parker kept deceiving his father about the real whereabouts of his brother (he said that Hunter had stolen the amulet and now doesn't want to be found). Alastor doesn't believe this obvious lie and doesn't care about the deteriorating state of Parker continues to ask him where Hunter actually. Julia helps Parker hide from his father that Hunter is in Tartarus.

Later, Parker helps Macy and Mel to steal Harbinger from his father's office.

In Witch Perfect, Parker doesn't show up, but he's mentioned by his ex-girlfriends. Lucy knows that he and Maggie broke up, and Maggie says that he's a monster and she wants nothing to do with him.

In You're Dead to Me, at the party at Phi Delt Maggie and Lucy talking about Parker when he and Maggie look at each other for a brief second.

When Maggie gets two skinny margaritas for her and Lucy, she is forced to talk to Parker as he is the one serving the drinks. Maggie mentions how Parker has ruined dating for her as he is the only one she can be completely honest with, know who she really is, and why he is a terrible person for lying to her.

Later, Maggie is held hostage by another witch, Cyd in the bathroom to lure Macy there in order to kill Knansie. As Macy arrives at the party, she spots Parker and asks where the bathroom is, so she can save her sister. Parker and Macy look in each stall and shower hoping to find Maggie who is trapped. They shared two hugs after she was saved. When Cyd finally revealed necromancer's deception to Parker and two Vera sisters, Knansie tried to escape. Parker was able to stop her, and in trying to get rid of him, she hit him in his face with a hammer. This blow didn't hurt him in any way, as he used his power. Knansie realized in her horror that she had attacked a member of a demonic bloodline, but it was too late and demonic pact had been terminated.

The next day, Maggie tells Parker she doesn’t hate him.

In Manic Pixie Nightmare, Parker asks Maggie to look into a classmate’s suicide, only to have the same thing happen to another man in front of the sisters. The culprit is Chloe, a pixie in human form; Harry remarks that pixies are typically benevolent. Chloe goes after Parker, whose powers have been suppressed by his mother, and Maggie narrowly saves him from walking in front of a bus. The sisters try to trap Chloe, but she hypnotizes Harry, using him to escape. Zack, a luckless film student, is controlling Chloe to dispose of his classmates, and intends to sacrifice Harry and steal his magic. Maggie and Parker break Chloe's hold over Harry, while Mel frees her from Zack's control. After sending Chloe on her way, Mel uses a Sarcana hex to compel Zack to turn himself in. Maggie kisses Parker, admitting she is ready to forgive him, but still fears his demon half. However, she's willing to give their relationship another try

In Touched by a Demon, after rekindling their relationship Maggie and Parker decided they're ready for sex, but Maggie's guard is internally still up blasting Parker annoying him. After getting advice that sex does mean something even to a 'bad boy'. They finally have sex, only for Parker's powers to transport them to a chamber beneath the house, while a mysterious woman awakens beside a raven.

In Switches & Stones, The sisters discover a pledge named Daphne summoned Medusa to take revenge on the people who slut-shamed her who are from Parker's frat. Macy realizes Medusa does not curse those who look at her, only those who look away, and convinces her to restore her victims and leave the mortal realm. Mel gets Parker and Lucy to expel the frat boys responsible for Daphne's shaming.

In Memento Mori, Lucy under mind control poisons Parker to force him to seek his father's help.

In Surrender, Maggie tries to convince herself that Parker will be fine and goes to ask his mother for permission to see him, but she denies it, telling him that the last time he was in that condition, he lost control and tried to kill her. Realizing that to get better, Parker needs demon blood, and since Macy's isn't good, Maggie decides to get some for him. Having discovered the presence of Viralis, Maggie decides to face him to prevent him from killing innocent women and to be able to obtain blood to cure Parker. While under Viralis' control, Maggie admits that she is afraid Parker will die and leave her alone. In the end, Macy kills Viralis and takes his blood, so Maggie takes it to Dr. Wagner.

In Source Material, Parker is doing better, but wants to wait to have sex with Maggie until he is fully human. Unfortunately, Hunter kills his mother and deceives his half-brother with his shapeshifting powers, first making him believe he killed her, then breaking up with him after taking Maggie's form and "finding out" about Julia's death. With nowhere else to go, Parker returns to his father and agrees to welcome the Source. After reading Parker's farewell letter to Maggie, Macy realizes that Hunter must have deceived him, prompting him to turn to his father. The latter begins the ritual to awaken the Source.

In Ambush, Macy tells Mel and Maggie that they should help themselves and find Parker. Mel later admits that it is essential to find him before he turns into the Source of All Evil. However the locator spell they used to find Fiona only works for witches, so they can't use it. Maggie later realizes that Lucy was obsessed with her and Parker is that she was the last person they met before he got sick and that she offered them a drink, realizing that she must have something to do with it. Maggie then realizes that Alastor must have met Lucy when she was with her son and that he hypnotized her to use her as a spy and becomes even more determined to find Parker in time. Mel speculates that Alastor wants Maggie to not make it to fight Parker if necessary. After the death of the last Elder, Maggie fears that Parker is about to be united with the Source, but Mel is certain that they will find him and Harry states that if he can no longer be helped, she knows what must be done. Niko later manages to trace the calls Lucy received through the cell towers her phone hooked up to, giving Maggie a lead to finding her boyfriend.

In Red Rain, Maggie telepathically hears Parker's plea for help. Maggie is happy about it because she thinks she can still help him and would like to go look for him at the address Niko found for her, but Harry convinces her to wait because they need a strategy. After the outbreak of the epidemic caused by the Harbinger, preventing Parker from becoming the Source's conduit becomes imperative and Harry decides to act, with Maggie hoping to convince him by telling him that he didn't kill his mother. Maggie continues to hear his calls for help and through a psychometry spell discovers that the Source is almost there to awaken.

Maggie tries to connect to Parker on the empathic level and ends up in a mindscape where Parker tells her that they have to stop her father from killing Charity too, since she still has Elder status. She and Harry reach Charity to protect her, but are joined by Parker who had set a trap for her to find the last Elder. The two sisters fight him and Maggie tells him that he didn't kill her mother, which leads him to ask her to kill him, but she can't and he runs away. Alastor kidnaps Maggie to use her as bait to force his son to act as a conduit to the Source. He manages to attract it, but it is Macy and not Parker who absorbs the Source into herself. Afraid of hurting Maggie, Parker leaves again.

In The Source Awakens, Parker, decides to get rid of his father's torture tools, when Maggie comes to him, he says he wants to stay away from her, believing himself to be a danger to her, but she asks him for advice on how the possession of the Source could affect Macy. He also reveals to her that there was a spell linked to the Source and Maggie realizes that it might be written on the page Lucy stole, later explaining to Parker what had happened to her. The two then find the page. After Macy's release from the Source, Maggie hopes that she and Parker can have a normal relationship, but he has decided to leave Hilltowne. She asks her to go with him, but Maggie doesn't want to leave her sisters. Parker understands this and promises her that when she can control her demonic side, he will return.

In Spectral Healing, TBA

In Chaos Theory, TBA

Personality[]

Parker appears as a confident, outgoing college student. He acts kindly towards Maggie Vera and feels sorrow when attacking the Charmed Ones, despite his demonic half and being tasked to do so by his father. He appears to follow his father's orders reluctantly but is still guided by a moral compass, as seen when he ultimately allows his victims to live after Parker gets what he wants from them, as what happened to both Leon and Sela when Parker came to collect their shards of the Scythe of Tartarus. Parker seems conflicted between his human side and his demonic side.

Physical Appearance[]

Parker's human appearance is a young white male in his early twenties, with wavy brown hair and dark gray eyes. He has a lean build and is cleanly shaven.

In his demonic form, he is very similar to his dad (a bald skull, yellow glowing eyes and sharp fangs) with the only difference that Parker's body has black smoky skin, not red magma.[7] In his human form, he can make his eyes glow red.

Powers and Abilities[]

Former Powers[]

All of Parker's powers before Abigael Jameson-Caine removed his demonic side in "The Enemy of My Frenemy":

Basic Powers
Active Powers
  • Shadow Form: The power to cover one's body in a mass of shadows. Parker could extend this field to another being or object he is touching, and could also apply it to only part of his body. This shadow form granted him several abilities:
    • Light Negation: While in his shadow form, Parker seemed able to negate the light in an area. This ability seemed to work on spells as well since Parker was able to temporarily stop the Candlelight Enchantment as he walked by several candles.
      • Electromagnetic Interference: Parker was shown capable of causing power outages and blackouts, as well as disable alarm and surveillance systems.
    • Phase-Shifting: While in shadow form, Parker was able to pass through solid objects. He could phase other solid objects and beings and could selectively apply his shadow form to only part of his body, allowing this part of himself to phase. This aspect of his powers could be accessed without fully accessing the shadow form.
    • Supernatural Stealth: His shadow form canceled out the noise of his movements so he remained unheard and obscured his identity.
  • Smoking: Parker had the ability to teleport through black smoke.[9]
  • Limited Shapeshifting: The ability to assume another physical form. After he got a transfusion of Viralis' blood, Parker assumed a form more demonic appearance. It is unknown whether he can do so willingly. After he left to find himself[11] and took over the role of Demon Overlord from his sister[10], Parker was shown to be able to make his eyes glow a deep red.
  • Supernatural Strength: Parker had enhanced physical strength sufficient to hurl an adult man across a room. Later, he was able to easily crush the Amulet of Archangels with one hand. He was able to effortlessly severely strangle his half-sister, Abigael, who is, apparently, even more durable than Whitelighters.
  • Energy Ball Generation: After becoming the Demon Overlord, Parker exhibited the ability to generate and project balls of electrical energy.
  • Mind Melding: By the side of his father, he had the telepathic ability to enter into the depths of people's minds to extract information.
Passive Powers
  • Resistance to Empathic Telepathy: Parker was adept at concealing his thoughts from an empath, ensuring they only read what he would like them to.
  • Immunity: Due to his demonic genes, Parker was immune to the effects of pixie dust. However, under the effect of  his mother's treatments to suppress his demon half, Parker temporarily became vulnerable to pixie dust.
  • Enhanced Durability: Parker was able to withstand being impaled and absorbing the Origin Dagger into his body, then was later able to withstand the dagger being telekinetically pulled from within him by Macy Vaughn. When Jordan Chase attacked him in order to protect Maggie, Parker didn't seem affected at all by his punches.

Weaknesses[]

  • Light of Theia: Being part Shadow Demon, Parker could be harmed (and possibly destroyed) by this spell.
  • Supernatural Autoimmune Disease: Parker suffered from a sort of supernatural autoimmune disease where his demon half was attacking his human half. This weakened him greatly at times and gave him a life expectancy of forty years. His failing health resulted in the weakening of his powers as well, so he couldn't use his powers properly while he was suffering from one of his weakening seizures. After having taken treatments for his condition and having briefly absorbed the Origin Dagger, it is presumed that Parker was no longer affected by the disease, as he wasn't shown to suffer any more seizures.
  • Dr. Wagner's Experimental Treatment: Parker's mother created an experimental treatment to suppress his demonic genes. This treatment worked in suppressing his demon side. Нowever, the effects of the treatment were only temporarily.
    • Pixie Dust: While under the effects of Julia's medication, Parker lost his immunity to pixie dust and thus could be zombified by any pixie.
  • Demonic Infection: His father infected him twice with a demonic disease which can only be cured via a transfusion of a full demon's blood.
  • Full Demon's Blood: When Parker was a child, a transfusion of Alastor's blood awakened his demon half. Also, a transfusion of Viralis' blood apparently made his demonic half much more dominant.

Relationships[]

Romantic Life[]

  • Parker and Maggie Vera: Maggie is Parker's ex-fiance. They were attracted to each other when they first met and had immediate chemistry. For many months, their relationship went through the highs and lows, but eventually, in "The Rules of Engagement," Parker succumbed to the temptation of his demonic side and Maggie decided that their relationship should be ended when she ran away from him from their wedding. Maggie thought he was dead, but she quickly began to cope with the loss, because she believes that if they continued to be together, his demonic side would still always stand between them. Later, Maggie found out that Parker was alive, but she was not happy with the news and continued to be very angry at him for the bad things he had done to her. In "The Enemy of My Frenemy," Maggie says that she does not want to return their relationship and even though he is now a mortal, it does not change anything between them. Parker agrees to her wishes and leaves her life.
  • Parker and Lucy: They met and began dating before his father instructed him to seduce one of Vera sisters. After Maggie kissed Parker, he dumped Lucy due to his conflicted feelings for Maggie. Parker stopped thinking about Lucy immediately after the kiss with Maggie (that tells about the weakness of his initial feelings for Lucy). Now Lucy has moved on from him thus does not feel any old romantic feelings for Parker.

Family[]

  • Parker and Alastor: A complicated father-son relationship. At the moment, the father and the son are enemies, since Parker has betrayed his dad several times and clearly doesn't want anything to do with him, and Alastor knows about the betrayals of the son in relation to him and Hunter.
  • Parker and Hunter Caine: Parker was on good terms with his half-brother until he went against him to protect Vera sisters at Christmas. Now Hunter most likely hates Parker for his betrayal.
  • Parker and Julia Wagner: Julia loves her son enough to sacrifice anything for him. Parker trusts his mother more than his dad. Despite small discontent towards each other, Parker and Julia have good relations.
  • Parker and Abigael: A hostile sibling relationship. It is not known if he knew of his sister's existence before their father's death, but when Parker found out about her, he was not happy with the fact that Abigael was trying to take away his rule and making attempts to kill him. Parker has no problem with constantly subjecting his sister to torture and public humiliation, but so far he does not feel ready to kill Abigael personally or force someone else to do it. After escaping from Godric, he tried to show warmth to his sister, but she rejected his attempts. After being deprived of his powers, Parker became mortal and severed all ties with her and the Charmed Ones. Later, when Abigael needed help at the Perfecti's trial, he refused to come and speak in her defense.

Appearances[]

Trivia[]

  • Parker was the first hybrid to appear in the rebooted 'Charmed' series.
  • Parker's shadow form was portrayed by Timothy Wallace.
  • Parker is the reboot counterpart of Cole Turner from the original 'Charmed' series. In the original series, Cole was a half-demon and the most prevalent love interest of Phoebe Halliwell. Similarly, Parker is a half-demon that has an on again off again relationship with Maggie Vera, the reboot counterpart of Phoebe, that lasts throughout the first two seasons.
    • Parker seems to essentially be an amalgamation of Cole Turner and the Shadow Demon, the demon from the original series that worked as a messenger between Cole and his bosses, the Triad, before beginning to work with Sykes for the Source of All Evil after Cole fell in love with Phoebe and betrayed demonkind. The Shadow Demon is one of several enemies from the original series whose ultimate fate is left unknown.
  • Parker also shares his name with Parker Halliwell, the middle daughter of Phoebe Halliwell and her third husband, Coop Halliwell, from the original.
    • It is possible that Parker was named after Craig Parker, the actor who portrays his father, Alastor, in the reboot.
  • According to his half-sister, Abigael Jameson-Caine, Parker was initially being prepared by their father in order to eventually lead the Primordials bloodline of demons, but he was "too weak" to do so.
    • This was likely a reference to the fact that Alastor was trying to ensure Parker would take on the Source, which would move him to the top of the demon hierarchy and would presumably allow him to claim the title of the Demon Overlord.
    • It can be theorized that Alastor, being aware of the prophecy about the Source and that it would "possess a demon born of a human", had Abigael and Parker as his forced attempts to having the Source within the Caine dynasty.
      • Since Abigael is older than Parker, it is possible that she was Alastor's first attempt, but being a woman and a witch, he could not accept her and disowned her. If that is true, it would make sense that he moved on to have a second child with a human, hoping for it to be a son, resulting in Parker being the chosen one to take on the Source.
  • Unlike other Shadow Demons, Parker can also be killed by other ways and not just Light Of Theia. This is probably coming from his nature as a half-demon.
  • According to Joey Falco in an interview after the series finale, Parker did not have a happy ending and was killed by a demon in some college bar. However, since this did not come to pass onscreen, the character was never shown again after The Enemy of My Frenemy and the fact that this statement seems to spawned from Joey's own personal disliking of the character, this is considered noncanonical.

Quotes[]

“ Half-demon. But who's counting? ”
— Parker's making fun of Knansie after she hit him with a hammer[src]


“ Oh, the question is, why aren't you skipping? Don't you remember that feeling when we were kids, our bodies light as air, skipping along without a care? I made a rhyme! ”
— Parker on pixie dust[src]


Gallery[]

References[]

  1. ↑ Sweet Tooth
  2. ↑ Exorcise Your Demons
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Switches & Stones
  4. ↑ Memento Mori
  5. ↑ Sudden Death
  6. ↑ You're Dead to Me
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Surrender
  8. ↑ The fans attributed to Parker the surname "Caine". But officially it is not yet known whether he carries his father's surname in the series or not. Most likely, he has either a double surname or he bears only the surname of his mother after the divorce of his parents, since the Vera-Vaughn Charmed Ones (before "Keep Calm and Harry On") didn't notice any relation between Parker and Alastor.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Jingle Hell
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Past is Present
  11. ↑ The Source Awakens
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