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Character Name: Cordelia Chase
Series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel the Series
Timeline: 5x12, You’re Welcome
Canon Resource Link: http://buffy.wikia.com/wiki/Cordelia_Chase
Character History:

The Sunnydale Years

Cordelia starts off in Buffy as a very shallow sort of character. She's the cheerleader bully who's often seen putting down Buffy and her friends. She's presented as very shallow and self centered and because of that early on she's often targeted by the monsters of the week. In the first episodes new vampire Jesse targets her and though she rejected him many times before she's attracted to his newfound confidence as a vampire. Luckily, Buffy saves her before she gets eaten but much like most Sunnydale residents she remains in denial for most of that first year until finally when she's being stalked by an invisible girl who wants revenge on Cordelia for being a bully. At this point she realizes Buffy is the one who takes care of all the weird things that happen in Sunnydale so she goes to her for help. This is the first step towards her becoming a part of the Scooby gang -- or as much of one as she ever becomes, anyway. When the Master kills Buffy and the Hellmouth is unleased Cordelia is among the people who help fight off the vampires -- she even bites one to show it how it feels.

She still remains one of the more targeted members of their little group throughout their junior year -- like when her head is decided to be the perfect topping to an assembled person -- but she continues to help them all the same. During her time helping them she and Xander bicker more and more -- until suddenly they're not just bickering but also making out. A lot. Dating someone like Xander is practically social suicide for someone like Cordelia and she breaks it off with him for that reason alone. And then he tries to cast a love spell on her and instead casts in on the whole school who hunts her down. It's kind of a mess. But at the end of it she realizes that she's a leader, not a follower, so if she wants to date a loser? She's going to. And nobody is going to stop her or try to take her down for it.

And they don't. Cordelia remains queen bee even as she dates Xander well into her senior year. Although Cordelia is often seen as shallow her blunt, astute way of thinking becomes an asset on more than one occasion. Not that her shallowness doesn't rears it's head sometimes -- it most certainly does. Like when she and Buffy fight over Homecoming campaigns -- and Cordelia is mistaken for the second the second Slayer and is taken to Slayerfest 99. Cordelia manages to hold her own, scaring some of the vampires off by her confidence and manner of speaking alone. They make it out alive, and neither one of them get to be queen. What a gyp, right? It is around this time that her boyfriend, Xander, starts cheating on her. She doesn't catch him until episodes later where she ends up then falling as she tries to escape from the scene and is impaled by rebar.

Cordelia is considerably more bitter when she goes back to school. She even wishes Buffy never came to Sunnydale because if she hadn't none of these terrible things would have happened to her!! Except that alternate reality went badly and things get reversed and Cordelia continues to push on. She gets into really good colleges except her dad gets arrested for tax fraud and now she can't afford to go to any of them. She can't even afford her prom dress -- but Xander buys it for her and it's a nice note for their relationship to end off on. During this time she also befriends Buffy's new watcher, Wesley, and they flirt a lot but they share an awful kiss and that's that.


The Los Angeles Years

With no college and no money in her future Cordelia goes to LA to become an actress -- not because she really has a passion for acting so much as she knows that's a good way to make money. And she misses being rich. But every actor needs a day job, right? She runs into Angel in Los Angeles and after he saves her from a vampire she decides she's going to start working for him and Doyle. The three them grow to be a good little team -- they even help her when her new apartment is possessed. But Doyle dies, and he passes the visions onto Cordelia and that's where the trajection of her life drastically changes.

At first she desperately tries to push the visions on anyone and everyone she can find -- she doesn't want the responsibility, the pain, none of it. It's too much. This isn't what she signed up for. But when Wolfram and Hart overloads her in visions and she sees how much Los Angeles is really suffering her tune begins to finally change. She wants to help people. She has to. That's the mission. This is when Cordelia really begins to start growing up, when she stops being the shallow self centered girl she had once been and becomes a champion.

When Angel fires them (due to going to a dark place with his sire, Darla, back in town), Cordelia is probably the one who takes the most personally. Because he's her best friend -- or so she thought. She doesn't trust a lot of people but she did trust him and he turned his back on her. Well fine. Who needs him. She works with Wes and Gunn to try to keep up the mission. It's harder without the help of a vampire, but they try their best. Because even if Angel has decided to take a break she doesn't get that luxury. Not with vision after painful vision being broadcast into her head. When he rejoins the group she is the one most stubborn about forgiving him -- but him buying her a lot of clothes goes a long way to help with this.

One of those visions of her leads her on a trail of a girl named Fred who had ended up in a hell dimension about five years ago. Cordelia ends up pulled there first and she gets enslaved. But when she has a vision they make her a princess which is pretty cool in her books, honestly. Well except for the part where they wanted to steal her visions and kill her. That part? Not so cool. And like how they treated humans in general. But they overthrow the Pylean government, they get back home and...Buffy's dead.

So Angel goes away for a while and Cordelia and everyone else holds the fort, so to speak. And he comes back and they start to help the helpless again, business as usual. Except the visions are taking a heavier hold on her, and once Wolfram and Hart even hijacks her visions leaving her rather physically scarred and injured. Angel released a bad guy to free her and eventually Cordelia helps chase him down because she feels responsible for him being released. And then Darla shows back up into town pregnant. Darla dies to give birth to Connor and Cordelia helps Angel take care of the baby as much as she can.

Until one day a vision knocks her out and she nearly dies. Her spirit guide, Skip, tells her she can either live a different life or die. Cordelia ultimately chooses a third option -- she becomes a part demon. She and Angel grow closer to one another and make out a lot thanks to some ghosts but before anything else happens her beau from Pylea, Groo, shows up. So she goes off on vacation with him and when she gets back Wesley has kidnapped Connor and everything has gone wrong. Connor shows back up as a teenager and Cordelia tries to help Angel with him. Angel is her priority. And she eventually realizes she's in love with Angel -- but the Powers need her, or so she thinks. So she descends up into the heavens and that's where things take a dark turn for Cordelia.

While Cordelia is in the higher realm she gets hijacked by a Higher Being known as Jasmine. When she gets back to LA she has amnesia -- and when her memories are "restored" it isn't her in the driver's seat anymore. Jasmine uses her body to get her impregnated so she can give birth to herself and the end result of all that is Cordelia ends up in a coma. It seems like she might not ever wake up.

Until she does.

She gets one shot to put Angel back on the right path and she does. She spends her last day or so on earth helping Angel where she can, and giving him a vision on how to take Wolfram and Hart as a parting gift. It's a bittersweet affair overall but she at least tog to say goodbye. She disappears and it's revealed she never woke up at all and she's off working for the Powers That Be somewhere now.



Abilities/Special Powers:

-She’s a direct link to the Powers that Be so she gets visions about things that are going to happen – generally crimes, especially violent ones.

So it’s never confirmed whether Cordelia still has her demon abilities when she wakes up from the coma so I’m going to list them anyway, just in case:

-Levitation
-Photokinesis
-Empathy
-Astral Projection
-The ability to purify the souls of those who have been infected by demons

Third-Person Sample:

She's pretty sure this is not her off ramp.

Don't get her wrong, she loves a mansion as much as the next girl and as she wanders around the Entrance Hall it's hard not be a little taken in with how nice and fancy everything here seems to be. She's been poor for years now but a part of her will always appreciate the finer things. So yeah, mansions are kind of cool but that doesn't change the fact that she's definitely not supposed to be here.

It's supposed to be a one shot deal. She helps Angel, puts him on the right track and then it's off to work with the Higher Powers on the spiritual plane and all that jazz. But someone interfered. Maybe Wolfram and Hart? But what good would keeping her around do them -- she'd only continue to lure Angel away from the darkness. And them. So probably not one their schemes.

Which brings back the question of the hour. If it's not their plans then whose it?

Well, standing around wondering isn't going to do her any good, is it? If she wants answers she has to find them herself. That's always the case, isn't it? She begins to wander down the hallways, looking for someone she can ask questions to, get answers from.

Once she has some basic information she can work out how to get home. One step at a time.

"Hey! So do you know who's running this whole kidnapping mansion deal? I mean it's a nice mansion and all and believe me, I know a good one when I see it but no matter how nice the place being kidnapped is bad news. So it'd be nice to at least get a heads up on what's going on this place."

So she knows how to best go about fighting it.




First-Person Sample:

[A voice feed opens.]

Is this thing on? [Nobody responds to her, but she's pretty sure it, so moving forward:]

I'm not going to ask why or how I got here. I've talked to people, I've figured it out, why bore you all by making you explain it to me? That's just a waste of everyone's time, really.

[She pauses for a moment and then adds:]

I just wanted to introduce myself. I'm Cordelia Chase and I tried to help people as much as I could back home. I want to keep up the pattern here -- I figure if I am really stuck I need to find something to do here.

So reaching out? Seems like a pretty smart start. I've been know to have good ideas, just other people are scared to admit it is all.

[And the feed cuts.]