Cause Someone You Don't Know Is Someone You Don't Know

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It's been a few months now since Cordelia first arrived here in the hotel. Things have eased up a little, after that rather public argument of theirs he did give her more space, which she's appreciated. It's given her time to adjust to life in the hotel, to occasionally branch out and talk to other people.

Not that she doesn't still spend a lot of time with him anyway, because she does. In all this time neither one of them have even suggested the idea of her getting her own room -- or at least her own bed. He still sleeps on the fold out sometimes but it's not that uncommon for them to end up asleep in the same bed.

Or he sleeps, anyway. Months later and Cordelia still has trouble sleeping. Maybe it's because after being in a coma so long, after dying in one there's an irrational fear that if she falls asleep she might not wake up.

Which is why she's lying here in the dark, staring at the ceiling and thinking about things a little too much. She's not the brooder of the two of them, preferring to live in the moment then the past but sometimes it's easier not to. It's easier to not think about how they shouldn't let whatever is going on here end up in their long list of missed opportunities. To just indulge the irrational fear that if actually talks to the man she loves about things she'd probably just end up disappearing again.

He had once suggested that maybe they were supposed to miss their moment -- but Cordelia rejects that idea. She has problems with the idea of thinking it was all up to fate or how things were "supposed" to be -- like their choices don't even matter. Because they do. Skip might of taken all the credit for how her life shaped out, how it was all supposedly manipulated so Jasmine could hijack her but she refuses to give them that much credit. To believe that their choices, what they want or feel don't matter. It does.

"Angel?" She calls out quietly, as if testing to see if he's fallen asleep yet. It's a little strange, sometimes, that they have the same sleep schedules now. Or at least they do in theory with him being human and all.

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Character Name: Cordelia Chase
Character Canon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel the Series
Canon Type: tv show

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Cordelia starts out as your typical mean girl queen bee -- she runs Sunnydale High and is generally an antagonist and reluctant helper to Buffy and the Scoobies during her time there. She's generally more of a pain than help but her straight forward attitude often provides insight that the others might not have thought of. Her desires are generally fairly shallow -- so when she starts fooling around with Xander Harris it's a big deal because he's low on the social totem pole. The lowest. But she decides she doesn't want to just be a sheep and dates him anyway.

If she's the queen she can make up the rules, right?

During her relationship with Xander she works with the Scoobies more -- until she discovers he had been cheating on her with Xander. Discovering this results in her literally being impaled with rebar. During this time her parents have also lost all their money. Cordelia was smart, she got into good schools for college but could no longer afford to go to them. All of her original goals and aspirations go out the door. So she high tails it out of Sunnydale and goes to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.

It's there that she meets Angel -- and her life pretty much changes course completely. She starts working for him a secretary but she doesn't truly get invested until Doyle dies and passes the visions on her. After being plagued with all of the suffering in Los Angeles Cordelia stops seeing the visions as merely a burden. She can help people. That's important. In many ways, Cordy becomes the heart of Angel Investigations.

When Angel alienates himself from the rest of his group it's Cordelia, Wesley and Gunn who decide they're going to keep trying to help people. Angel may have turned his back on the mission but Cordelia doesn't get that luxury. Not when she's plagued with visions of those who are suffering. Not when she knows she can prevent it. Eventually, Angel rejoins the group and begins to try to patch things up with Cordelia. She is probably the one who it takes the longest for him to patch things with Cordelia -- trust isn't something that always comes easy to her. From there, she gets a series of visions about a girl which leads her to landing in another dimension. Pylea. On the plus side, they made her a princess. On the minus side? They wanted to kill her. She has a short fling with the champion of that realm, Groo.

During all of this Cordelia's growing sick, though she doesn't tell anyone about it. The visions are taking a toll on her, and eventually it nearly kills her. After her own version of It's a Wonderful Life Cordy chooses to become part demon so she can handle still having the visions. At the end of the season she's told she's been chosen to work for the Powers That Be.

She eventually gets sent back to earth but she has amnesia! And when she gets her memories back it's no longer her in the driver's seat but an evil being known as Jasmine. Jasmine uses her to get pregnant and give birth to herself, sending Cordelia into a long term coma.

She's given one last day on earth to fix things with Angel working for Wolfram and Gart. She gets her guy on track. She reminds him of the mission. And that's it, it's her off ramp.

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My choice of exit is Cordelia's last appearance in Angel the Series, You're Welcome. I chose this point for a few reasons. For one, her work back home was considered over/finished, she'd have an easier time adjusting to be stuck in some new world or nexus because of this. She literally tells Angel that this her exit -- her off ramp. The other reason is because in the latter half of the series a lot of Cordelia's agency and choices are ripped away from her and I'd like to get the chance to play her from a time where she can work through some of that. Get her sense of self back.

Not to mention it'd give her a chance to see people like Angel again who she thought she had been saying goodbye to for good. It'd be like a do over in some ways. Cordelia's gotten some rotten hands in life, no one is more aware of this than Cordelia herself but she's not someone who overtly dwells on it. There's no point. What's done is done and all she can do now is try to live this new extension of her life as well as she possibly can.


She'd be surprised to wake up in a hotel, to say the least. Because she's supposed to be working with the Powers That Be, finally. Or that's what she had thought, anyway. Cordelia's generally a pretty friendly person, if a bit abrasive, so finding people she can befriend within AI probably wouldn't be a huge issue for her. She'd also pretty easily fall into trying to help the other people there -- as that's become one of the things she cares about the most in her life.


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Cordelia Chase is above everything else confident. She thinks very highly of herself, she always has and she always will. She may doubt things in life, but one thing she won't doubt is her worth. The few times she has have been very hard on her, and often results in cold grudges (like when Xander cheated on her with Willow, and then acted like he did nothing wrong, this may be the prime example of her behavior when her sense of self has been shattered.)

When she was younger she was a very typical high school queen. She was self absorbed and only cared about herself. But as time went on and she became more aware of what was really going on in Sunnydale, she becomes more willing, though still very reluctant to help. Her relationship with Xander Harris, and how it falls apart ends up humbling greatly, as does her family losing everything. She no longer has the world at her fingertips, but she finds a way to come above it, and doesn't let it knock her down. But it does help her to not look down on other people like the way she always used to. She's still pretty judgmental at this point, but it's definitely her stepping in the right direction.

Her relationship with Xander and the fact that he cheats on her (and with Willow, someone she sees as beneath her) is important because despite herself, she had really fallen for Xander. And she's used to getting whatever she wants, and it becomes very clear by his callous behavior after they break up that he never cared about her the way she did about him. She's not used to rejection.

But the really turning point in Cordy's personality is when she comes to live in Los Angeles. She helps Angel turn his work into a business, and befriends both him and a demon named Doyle. She dislikes Doyle at first, dismissing him and thinking he's a loser, but as she gets closer to him, she realizes there's a lot more to him. She begins to consider a relationship with him despite the fact that he was part demon. This is particularly important because before this she had been very prejudice against all demons, considering them to be evil and nothing else. Her friendship and almost romance with Doyle helps expand her world view, much like relationship with Xander did, but on a much larger scale.

When Doyle dies and passes his visions onto her, she's frightened and scared at first. They're painful, and she doesn't want the responsibility that comes along with them. But she soon realizes just how many people in the world are suffering, and she becomes determined to help them. Despite the fact that the visions hurt her, she refuses to give them up, though she gets several opportunities to do so. She knows that they make her who she is, a hero. And even when she knew they might kill her, she knew if she accepted Skip's offer to live in a world where she never got them, her friends, and specifically Angel would suffer greatly, and she couldn't do that for them. So instead, she insisted on being turned into a half demon, despite having previously been judgmental against demons, so she could help her friends and not die.

Another big aspect of Cordelia's personality is that she says what she's thinking more often than not. Being tactful is not one of her skills she uses often. She doesn't believe in beating around the bush or sugar coating things. She says what she means and she means what she says. Even you're a friend or loved one, she's not afraid of telling you you're wrong. She's honest to a fault.

The closest she gets to really lying are lies of omission. If something's wrong with her (like when her visions were slowly killing her), she's likely to just keep it to herself and not tell her friends about it. Part of this comes from the belief that she can overcome things without help, part of this also comes from the fact that she doesn't want to cause her friends worries.

Despite the fact that Cordelia develops and becomes a true Champion of good, she never looses her femininity. She still get excited about new clothes, the chance to dress up, and the idea of a whirlwind romance (like she has with Groo). She becomes a strong balance between hero and woman, and wears both roles like a glove. Despite becoming a much deeper person throughout the two series, some of her old shallowness still shines through, like getting super excited over presents for her Birthday, or new clothes being a means to mending her friendship with Angel.

She also develops very motherly instincts later on in the series. We see it with Connor, Angel's son, but we also see it with her relationship with Fred. She puts a lot of effort into helping the other girl assimilate back into the real world. This probably is due to her own time in Pylea helping her to empathize with Fred's situation.

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Cordelia felt a wave of nausea hit her as she picked herself up from the ground. She would never, ever get used to the whole traveling between different planes, worlds, whatever thing. It sucked. This was worse than normal though. Her head swam as she straightened into a standing position, and her whole body was sore. She had figured that after that last stint in L.A. she was finally ascending to a higher plane. That's what the powers had told her when she had asked for one last chance to put Angel back on track.

But something was off.

There was this big archway, a doorway of sorts, behind her. She rose to her feet to try to give it a better look. It looked old. Not quite as old as the stuff in Pylea (which was frankly a relief because as much fun as the whole princess ordeal had been she didn't really want to repeat that any time soon) but definitely not like the stuff back in L.A. either.

She supposed it could be the Higher Realm, as she had never really properly been there before (when she "ascended" the first time Jasmine had trapped her in this weird floaty dimension place but she had a feeling that was a far cry from the real thing) but something told her it wasn't.

Which brought up a question: where was she?

And if the Powers were pulling her off course again, couldn't they have at least given her some warning? Seriously, would that be so much to ask for? Considering everything they had put her through before, they owed her at least that much.

But since when did that ever matter?

Seemed to her that if she wanted answers? She would probably have to go find them herself. She could just hope that this time? Nobody tried to enslave her or call her a cow. Though really, if they want to repeat the Princess gig for him, well who is she to say no to some royal treatment?

As she was about to walk away she noticed something at her feet. A small communication device. Well, wasn't that handy. That at least meant it shouldn't be too hard to get a hold of some other people here and get some answers.

Which would at least be a start.

So with that in mind she picked the device and after a few minutes of fiddling around figured out how to send a message and typed one up.

It was better than waiting around for someone to show up and spew exposition at her. Though knowing her life, she wouldn't be surprised if that one happened at all.

Of all the inmates I had to be assigned, it had to be that little brat, didn't it? I wonder if this is punishment for being such a catty bitch back in Sunnydale. Well, at the very least, she should be a challenge. And if I can deal with demons and vampires and all that, I can certainly handle a teenage girl. We don't have an understanding just yet, but she'll come around to my point of view eventually. They always do.

Speaking of vampires and demons and things that go bump in the night, Buffy's here. Of all the people from home, I didn't expect to see her. Apparently Angel used to be here too. I wish he still was. She showed me around and stuff, so I guess I can't complain too much. There are definitely worse people from our world who could be in this place.

Do people always freak out during the floods so much? I mean, I guess it would have been weird not being in my body, but weirder things have happened. I mean, at least no one else was having control of you or anything. Because that sucks. Someone mentioned it was one of the tamer floods, but I guess after Sunnydale and Los Angeles, it just doesn't seem that weird. I mean, there's only so many times you can freak out about things.