Talk:It Lives Beneath/@comment-34296592-20181013110918/@comment-3452092-20181017164339

Whoops! I checked and figured out what I did wrong. The link works now. Sorry about that. Apparently it didn't want www.

I agree with you 100% on the taking powers away actually being binding, because otherwise how would Phoebe have gotten her powers back? She couldn't, but because they were part of her, she was able to eventually get them back.

The not healing yourself for big things makes sense to me, because I assume that healing takes something out of you and if you are already weakened by something big, I can see you not being able to heal yourself and since there are very few things that can actually injure them (they do self heal on everything else such as if they are blown up, they reform, if they are cut, they heal. I'm know we have examples of the first since Piper has blown Leo up more than once and Paige blew him up at least once and I'm pretty sure we have examples of the second, but at the very least, I'm pretty sure it was discussed). So the not healing themselves is a very specific thing, darklighter arrows which poison them. . . have we seen any examples of them healing anyone while poisoned with a darklighter arrow, because I think they lose the ability to access that ability entirely unless they are healed (not lose it entirely since Piper could still swap powers with Leo and heal him).

Agreed on the fireball thing. I could probably make something up if I wanted, but if they can't (was it ever stated that they couldn't or did they just not do it?), then that is just silly. I would say unless it is explicedly stated that they can't (and if it it was, I don't recall), then they can. They just don't, because why bother. Lighting up a room never killed anyone (well, not unless you are a vampire or something and alergic to light) and I think everyone with that ability was a demon attacking them or pretty nearly everyone.

That reminds me of another whitelighter power. . . lighting up a room with orb lights.