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Name: Cordelia Chase
Fandom: Angel / Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Gender: Female
Age: 21.
Time Period: Angel: 3x06 ‘Billy’ (end).
Wing Color: Plum
History: Here @ the Buffy wiki.
Personality:
If anything, Cordelia is honest throughout her appearances in Sunnydale and L.A. She’s blunt, doesn’t believe in tact, and says what she thinks. She softens over the years, but Cordelia is unique for her honesty. It’s the one definable trait that sets her apart from the rest. Her honesty comes with her wit and sharp tongue.
Cordelia is introduced as a stock character: popular, beautiful, vain and incredibly materialistic. Her involvement with the Scooby Gang-Buffy Summers, the Slayer, along with Rupert Giles, Xander Harris and Willow Rosenburg-challenged Cordelia as a person to grow. She began to shed her vanity after being constantly thrown into supernatural situations-where she played the damsel in distress-and having to rely on her new group of (loosely called) ‘friends’.
Her dating Xander was something she was ashamed of. She believed in social status, and as Xander was unpopular, she wasn’t too keen to shed light on their romantic relationship. Despite their efforts to keep their relationship a secret-as the two never quite liked each other prior to becoming romantic-Cordelia’s friends, ‘The Cordettes’, found out and ridiculed Cordelia. Out of shame, Cordelia broke up with Xander, only to go against her friends and beliefs to rekindle their relationship after he showed how much he cared for her. Cordelia even came to believe she may have been in love with Xander. However, she felt incredibly betrayed when she saw him kissing Willow, and broke up with him. She didn’t give him any other chances. She did accept the prom dress he bought her. This can be seen as the start of their relationship being rebuilt.
She loves fashion. She’s a rich girl from Sunnydale who is used to “having all the dresses”. She knows her shoes, her designers, and her clothes. She values them above anything else at times. When she’s angry at Angel, he makes amends with her by buying her clothes.
Cordelia is empathetic when the situation calls for it. She comes off hard and uncaring, but there’s a particular moment when Buffy returned to Sunnydale after a summer of silence and Xander and Willow were verbally attacking Buffy for her decision. Cordelia stuck up for her, despite disliking her, and tried to calm the situation by stating Buffy’s point of view.
After her break-up with Xander, Cordelia had no place in the Scooby Gang, or Sunnydale. Calling Xander the “Zeppo”, as she viewed him as useless, was more true of her situation than his. Cordelia had outgrown the Cordettes, no longer being a cardboard cutout of a vain, selfish girl, and she no longer had a position in the Scooby Gang as she was only seen as “Xander’s Girlfriend”. It can be said that she didn’t try to make any permanent ties with the gang, resulting in her not being able to reintegrate herself into the group post-break up. She still fought alongside them, but she had no place.
Moving to L.A. saw Cordelia attempting to pursue an acting career. She met up with Angel and Francis Doyle, where the three of them began Angel Investigations. Cordelia had found her purpose. She became the secretary for the organisation and pushed for it to grow into a business with her desire to make money. Cordelia is quite the businesswoman when she’s given the chance, going as far as creating business cards for distribution among potential clients.
Doyle was a half-demon. He feared that Cordelia would reject him as she showed disgust towards demons. However, as Cordelia was oblivious to his demon heritage until the final hours before his death, she accepted him as he was her friend first, demon second. Him being a demon was rated higher on the acceptable scale, coming before “ugly” and “poor”. This showed Cordelia’s attempt at being accepting, while still showing her vanity. This was the start of Cordelia creating permanent ties with the people she became friends with in L.A. She came to L.A. as a girl with “no family” and ‘left’ L.A. with one.
Doyle’s death tore Cordelia up. She had lost a friend. However, she had gained a future. He left her with a parting kiss, which transferred his visions to her. This gave Cordelia more of a purpose-however, she didn’t see it this way in the beginning. The visions were seen as a burden until she was forced into a mystical coma and had to endure vision upon vision until Angel broke the curse. She had a change of heart after she had felt and witnessed all the pain in the world, and became more determined to “help the helpless”.
The visions came at a cost. They were extremely painful, going as far as throwing her across a room. It isn’t until two years later that Cordelia is told they are killing her. She keeps the pain and the powerful migraine medication to herself as she fears that she would have no place among the team at Angel Investigations if the visions were taken away from her. So, she keeps to herself and puts on a brave face. Despite being a terrible actress when she’s on the job, she’s an incredible one when it comes to fooling her friends.
She became a princess in an alternate dimension, going as far as bringing free will and democracy into the law. A prophecy stated that she would pass her visions onto The Groosalugg. When Cordelia found this out, she said she didn’t want to pass them on as Angel and the team needed her. She was their guide to helping the helpless. Instead of giving into her desire-as she was attracted to “Groo”-she chose the fight and how she viewed herself as useful over a potential love.
Cordelia is given a choice to continue living her life and die, or live in an alternate reality that would’ve been if she hadn’t met Angel in L.A. After seeing Angel go insane with the visions, Cordelia chose to continue living her current life, despite becoming a successful actress, as she didn’t like seeing her friends in pain. She chose to become a demon, as she would avoid death and be able to handle the visions free of pain.
As a result of becoming a demon, more chips fell into place. Cordelia was offered the position of a Higher Being because she was a true “warrior”. Instead of choosing her own happiness-meeting Angel and telling him she loved him-she chose to continue fighting the war against the forces of evil and accepted the position. She places the fight for good above her personal life. She ascended. (This means she left Earth, and thus her friends, and would watch over them from wherever the Higher Beings were situated.)
This is the last time Cordelia is seen until she appears, waking up from her coma. She provides closure to her friends and family during this moment before she dies. Prior to being placed in yet another coma, she chooses to fall from being a Higher Being and come back as she missed her friends and felt incredibly bored simply watching everyone. During her descent, she was piggybacked by an evil Power That Be. She becomes possessed by it and is a backseat driver during her fourth year in L.A. As for her death, Cordelia left an incredibly large imprint on her friends. She used what little life energy she had left to say goodbye and make amends for the wrongdoings that the higher being had done while in her body.
STRENGTHS: Cordelia is a seer. She possesses visions-the ability to see the future and past-which was given to her by the Powers that Be. With these visions, Cordelia is able to see vague images of events. She’s able to gain feelings experienced, particular smells, and sometimes voices along with these images. As stated, these visions are incredibly vague. Along with them, Cordelia experiences incredible pain every time she is given one.
As a cheerleader, Cordelia developed photographic reflexes which enables her to remember movements after only seeing them once. She’s able to mimic them perfectly. This is evident when she trains with Angel. He shows her a move, she copies it exactly.
She’s skilled in swordplay and combat. Cordelia can kick ass when it’s needed, thanks to being placed into situations where she’s required to fight for herself. She even took it upon herself to request training with swords so she could be better prepared when fighting (and shed her “damsel in distress” persona).
Her loyalty and love for her friends can be seen as a strength. Cordelia is fearless when it comes to defending those she cares about.
WEAKNESSES: The visions are slowly killing Cordelia as they were meant to be given to demons. As Cordelia is human, she isn’t equipped to handle them, hence the intense pain every time she is given one. Cordelia keeps this fact to herself for a good three years until she is found out by the team. She doubts how important she is to the Angel Investigations gang, seeing herself as only valuable to them because she is “Vision Girl”.
Cordelia can be quite quick to trust others. She trusted her highschool friend, Harmony, who had become a vampire. She believed the best in her, going as far as ignoring any warnings from her friends about Harmony’s true nature. Harmony betrayed Cordelia, going as far as threatening to kill her before Cordelia gained the upper hand. This puts her friends in danger, as well as herself. Another example is when she was sympathetic to a pregnant Darla (who was also a vampire). Darla took advantage of this and attacked Cordelia. This shows that, despite the known natures of these two women, Cordelia turned a blind eye as she was either sympathetic to their situation (Darla being pregnant with a demon child, something Cordelia has had prior experience with) or because of who they were to her one before (as seen with Harmony, an old childhood friend of hers).
A significant weakness with Cordelia is her faith in her friends. She fears that if she loses her visions, she’ll be no use to them. She sees her value in her visions, where as her friends repeatedly say that they care about her for who she is. They’d still need her because she’s Cordelia Chase, not Vision Girl.
Samples
First Person:
( voice )
[ Cordelia groans. ] Ugh! You’ve got to be kidding. I thought this was all over! Are we seriously revisiting this again? The claw marks, the boils, the burns. But wings? Are we going to be attacked by some wild demonic bird now?
And what’s with this place? Last time I checked, my visions only send me to the ground, not some creepy place with a hell of a lot of trees.
[ A sigh. ] Okay, fine. Someone tell me when I hit the key word so I can go home. What’s the Malwhatto, anyway? Big herd of demons heading to L.A.? Do I win a prize now for figuring that out on this stupid thing?
[ There’s a long pause. ]
Okay, buddy. I want to lose the wings now. Clicking my heels. It’s time you send me back home to the team. I’ve got a hell of a lot of helpless to help.
Third Person:
Cordelia blinks and Angel is gone. She frowns, looking around to see that the interior of the Hyperion basement has disappeared to. It’s been replaced within wildlife she’s never seen before. Los Angeles had buildings that went for miles. They reached the tips of the sky and the bottom of the earth. Everywhere she looked, there was a building somewhere.
But this place lacked the imposing beasts. Instead, it was free.
She looks around, eyes wide, standing incredibly still on the spot as she takes it all in. Then, she thinks, with a blink she’ll be back at Angel Investigations. Angel will be standing right in front of her.
So she blinks. It’s forced. If someone were standing right in front of her, they’d find it rather amusing. Her head ducks a little as she does it. And when she comes to, she still sees trees. “Okay, so the whole blinking thing was an incredibly stupid idea. Duly noted.”
She rolls her eyes with a sigh. Taking a step forward, she notices how her legs feel different. The fabric sliding against them isn’t familiar. Looking down, she notes she’s in an incredibly white dress.
Something she wasn’t wearing a few seconds ago.
“Super creepy, perverts, what’s this about?” She picks at the fabric, feeling it between her fingers. She doesn’t mind it. For a self-proclaimed fashionista, Cordelia wouldn’t mind taking it home and cutting off a half the skirt. It’d be nice in summer, she thinks.
But, back to the point. Her back smarts, more than it did when it was being torn open by invisible claw marks. And everything reeks of supernatural mayhem. Was this another one of Lilah Morgan’s ridiculous ways of taking a stab at Angel? Cordelia feels her face for the boils, frightened they’ve come back to the surface. Looking at her arms, they’re lacking the appearance of being smeared with charcoal. Her face feels smooth under her touch.
Biting her bottom lip, she tentatively moves her arms to her back. Something doesn’t feel right. Why would whoever keep the claw marks at her back? Her stomach doesn’t smart with pain. So why did her back?
Whatever it is feels soft under her touch. Her eyes light up when she feels them. “Oh god.”
Name: Cordelia Chase
Fandom: Angel / Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Gender: Female
Age: 21.
Time Period: Angel: 3x06 ‘Billy’ (end).
Wing Color: Plum
History: Here @ the Buffy wiki.
Personality:
If anything, Cordelia is honest throughout her appearances in Sunnydale and L.A. She’s blunt, doesn’t believe in tact, and says what she thinks. She softens over the years, but Cordelia is unique for her honesty. It’s the one definable trait that sets her apart from the rest. Her honesty comes with her wit and sharp tongue.
Cordelia is introduced as a stock character: popular, beautiful, vain and incredibly materialistic. Her involvement with the Scooby Gang-Buffy Summers, the Slayer, along with Rupert Giles, Xander Harris and Willow Rosenburg-challenged Cordelia as a person to grow. She began to shed her vanity after being constantly thrown into supernatural situations-where she played the damsel in distress-and having to rely on her new group of (loosely called) ‘friends’.
Her dating Xander was something she was ashamed of. She believed in social status, and as Xander was unpopular, she wasn’t too keen to shed light on their romantic relationship. Despite their efforts to keep their relationship a secret-as the two never quite liked each other prior to becoming romantic-Cordelia’s friends, ‘The Cordettes’, found out and ridiculed Cordelia. Out of shame, Cordelia broke up with Xander, only to go against her friends and beliefs to rekindle their relationship after he showed how much he cared for her. Cordelia even came to believe she may have been in love with Xander. However, she felt incredibly betrayed when she saw him kissing Willow, and broke up with him. She didn’t give him any other chances. She did accept the prom dress he bought her. This can be seen as the start of their relationship being rebuilt.
She loves fashion. She’s a rich girl from Sunnydale who is used to “having all the dresses”. She knows her shoes, her designers, and her clothes. She values them above anything else at times. When she’s angry at Angel, he makes amends with her by buying her clothes.
Cordelia is empathetic when the situation calls for it. She comes off hard and uncaring, but there’s a particular moment when Buffy returned to Sunnydale after a summer of silence and Xander and Willow were verbally attacking Buffy for her decision. Cordelia stuck up for her, despite disliking her, and tried to calm the situation by stating Buffy’s point of view.
After her break-up with Xander, Cordelia had no place in the Scooby Gang, or Sunnydale. Calling Xander the “Zeppo”, as she viewed him as useless, was more true of her situation than his. Cordelia had outgrown the Cordettes, no longer being a cardboard cutout of a vain, selfish girl, and she no longer had a position in the Scooby Gang as she was only seen as “Xander’s Girlfriend”. It can be said that she didn’t try to make any permanent ties with the gang, resulting in her not being able to reintegrate herself into the group post-break up. She still fought alongside them, but she had no place.
Moving to L.A. saw Cordelia attempting to pursue an acting career. She met up with Angel and Francis Doyle, where the three of them began Angel Investigations. Cordelia had found her purpose. She became the secretary for the organisation and pushed for it to grow into a business with her desire to make money. Cordelia is quite the businesswoman when she’s given the chance, going as far as creating business cards for distribution among potential clients.
Doyle was a half-demon. He feared that Cordelia would reject him as she showed disgust towards demons. However, as Cordelia was oblivious to his demon heritage until the final hours before his death, she accepted him as he was her friend first, demon second. Him being a demon was rated higher on the acceptable scale, coming before “ugly” and “poor”. This showed Cordelia’s attempt at being accepting, while still showing her vanity. This was the start of Cordelia creating permanent ties with the people she became friends with in L.A. She came to L.A. as a girl with “no family” and ‘left’ L.A. with one.
Doyle’s death tore Cordelia up. She had lost a friend. However, she had gained a future. He left her with a parting kiss, which transferred his visions to her. This gave Cordelia more of a purpose-however, she didn’t see it this way in the beginning. The visions were seen as a burden until she was forced into a mystical coma and had to endure vision upon vision until Angel broke the curse. She had a change of heart after she had felt and witnessed all the pain in the world, and became more determined to “help the helpless”.
The visions came at a cost. They were extremely painful, going as far as throwing her across a room. It isn’t until two years later that Cordelia is told they are killing her. She keeps the pain and the powerful migraine medication to herself as she fears that she would have no place among the team at Angel Investigations if the visions were taken away from her. So, she keeps to herself and puts on a brave face. Despite being a terrible actress when she’s on the job, she’s an incredible one when it comes to fooling her friends.
She became a princess in an alternate dimension, going as far as bringing free will and democracy into the law. A prophecy stated that she would pass her visions onto The Groosalugg. When Cordelia found this out, she said she didn’t want to pass them on as Angel and the team needed her. She was their guide to helping the helpless. Instead of giving into her desire-as she was attracted to “Groo”-she chose the fight and how she viewed herself as useful over a potential love.
Cordelia is given a choice to continue living her life and die, or live in an alternate reality that would’ve been if she hadn’t met Angel in L.A. After seeing Angel go insane with the visions, Cordelia chose to continue living her current life, despite becoming a successful actress, as she didn’t like seeing her friends in pain. She chose to become a demon, as she would avoid death and be able to handle the visions free of pain.
As a result of becoming a demon, more chips fell into place. Cordelia was offered the position of a Higher Being because she was a true “warrior”. Instead of choosing her own happiness-meeting Angel and telling him she loved him-she chose to continue fighting the war against the forces of evil and accepted the position. She places the fight for good above her personal life. She ascended. (This means she left Earth, and thus her friends, and would watch over them from wherever the Higher Beings were situated.)
This is the last time Cordelia is seen until she appears, waking up from her coma. She provides closure to her friends and family during this moment before she dies. Prior to being placed in yet another coma, she chooses to fall from being a Higher Being and come back as she missed her friends and felt incredibly bored simply watching everyone. During her descent, she was piggybacked by an evil Power That Be. She becomes possessed by it and is a backseat driver during her fourth year in L.A. As for her death, Cordelia left an incredibly large imprint on her friends. She used what little life energy she had left to say goodbye and make amends for the wrongdoings that the higher being had done while in her body.
STRENGTHS: Cordelia is a seer. She possesses visions-the ability to see the future and past-which was given to her by the Powers that Be. With these visions, Cordelia is able to see vague images of events. She’s able to gain feelings experienced, particular smells, and sometimes voices along with these images. As stated, these visions are incredibly vague. Along with them, Cordelia experiences incredible pain every time she is given one.
As a cheerleader, Cordelia developed photographic reflexes which enables her to remember movements after only seeing them once. She’s able to mimic them perfectly. This is evident when she trains with Angel. He shows her a move, she copies it exactly.
She’s skilled in swordplay and combat. Cordelia can kick ass when it’s needed, thanks to being placed into situations where she’s required to fight for herself. She even took it upon herself to request training with swords so she could be better prepared when fighting (and shed her “damsel in distress” persona).
Her loyalty and love for her friends can be seen as a strength. Cordelia is fearless when it comes to defending those she cares about.
WEAKNESSES: The visions are slowly killing Cordelia as they were meant to be given to demons. As Cordelia is human, she isn’t equipped to handle them, hence the intense pain every time she is given one. Cordelia keeps this fact to herself for a good three years until she is found out by the team. She doubts how important she is to the Angel Investigations gang, seeing herself as only valuable to them because she is “Vision Girl”.
Cordelia can be quite quick to trust others. She trusted her highschool friend, Harmony, who had become a vampire. She believed the best in her, going as far as ignoring any warnings from her friends about Harmony’s true nature. Harmony betrayed Cordelia, going as far as threatening to kill her before Cordelia gained the upper hand. This puts her friends in danger, as well as herself. Another example is when she was sympathetic to a pregnant Darla (who was also a vampire). Darla took advantage of this and attacked Cordelia. This shows that, despite the known natures of these two women, Cordelia turned a blind eye as she was either sympathetic to their situation (Darla being pregnant with a demon child, something Cordelia has had prior experience with) or because of who they were to her one before (as seen with Harmony, an old childhood friend of hers).
A significant weakness with Cordelia is her faith in her friends. She fears that if she loses her visions, she’ll be no use to them. She sees her value in her visions, where as her friends repeatedly say that they care about her for who she is. They’d still need her because she’s Cordelia Chase, not Vision Girl.
Samples
First Person:
( voice )
[ Cordelia groans. ] Ugh! You’ve got to be kidding. I thought this was all over! Are we seriously revisiting this again? The claw marks, the boils, the burns. But wings? Are we going to be attacked by some wild demonic bird now?
And what’s with this place? Last time I checked, my visions only send me to the ground, not some creepy place with a hell of a lot of trees.
[ A sigh. ] Okay, fine. Someone tell me when I hit the key word so I can go home. What’s the Malwhatto, anyway? Big herd of demons heading to L.A.? Do I win a prize now for figuring that out on this stupid thing?
[ There’s a long pause. ]
Okay, buddy. I want to lose the wings now. Clicking my heels. It’s time you send me back home to the team. I’ve got a hell of a lot of helpless to help.
Third Person:
Cordelia blinks and Angel is gone. She frowns, looking around to see that the interior of the Hyperion basement has disappeared to. It’s been replaced within wildlife she’s never seen before. Los Angeles had buildings that went for miles. They reached the tips of the sky and the bottom of the earth. Everywhere she looked, there was a building somewhere.
But this place lacked the imposing beasts. Instead, it was free.
She looks around, eyes wide, standing incredibly still on the spot as she takes it all in. Then, she thinks, with a blink she’ll be back at Angel Investigations. Angel will be standing right in front of her.
So she blinks. It’s forced. If someone were standing right in front of her, they’d find it rather amusing. Her head ducks a little as she does it. And when she comes to, she still sees trees. “Okay, so the whole blinking thing was an incredibly stupid idea. Duly noted.”
She rolls her eyes with a sigh. Taking a step forward, she notices how her legs feel different. The fabric sliding against them isn’t familiar. Looking down, she notes she’s in an incredibly white dress.
Something she wasn’t wearing a few seconds ago.
“Super creepy, perverts, what’s this about?” She picks at the fabric, feeling it between her fingers. She doesn’t mind it. For a self-proclaimed fashionista, Cordelia wouldn’t mind taking it home and cutting off a half the skirt. It’d be nice in summer, she thinks.
But, back to the point. Her back smarts, more than it did when it was being torn open by invisible claw marks. And everything reeks of supernatural mayhem. Was this another one of Lilah Morgan’s ridiculous ways of taking a stab at Angel? Cordelia feels her face for the boils, frightened they’ve come back to the surface. Looking at her arms, they’re lacking the appearance of being smeared with charcoal. Her face feels smooth under her touch.
Biting her bottom lip, she tentatively moves her arms to her back. Something doesn’t feel right. Why would whoever keep the claw marks at her back? Her stomach doesn’t smart with pain. So why did her back?
Whatever it is feels soft under her touch. Her eyes light up when she feels them. “Oh god.”