Cordelia was a vain and snobby cheerleader who constantly berated the Scoobies but eventually became a reluctant member of their group. She and Xander had a bizarre relationship, based entirely on lust rather than mutual respect, until she caught him kissing Willow (Lover’s Walk). She then became even bitchier to the Scoobies, but remained in their group to be close to Wesley, the new Watcher of Buffy and Faith, whom she had a crush on. She and Wesley eventually kissed but discovered that they had no kind of sexual chemistry at all (Graduation Day (Part 1)).
Cordy helped her classmates to fight the Mayor, before leaving for L.A. for fame and fortune. There, Cordy met Angel at a Hollywood party, and pretended that her career was really taking off. In fact, she was living in a run-down apartment and was nearly broke. Cordelia was rescued by Angel and Doyle from a vampire, and joined them to form Angel Investigations, an agency dedicated to helping people, located by Doyle’s visions. With her aim still to become a famous actress, Cordelia became the agency’s office manager. Her budding romance with Doyle ended with his sudden, heroic death. Before dying, Doyle transferred his visions to her with a passionate kiss, which made her become an integral part of Angel’s group.
The visions became increasingly intense, and began to physically damage Cordelia’s brain. She secretly took powerful painkillers and underwent CAT scans that indicated the slow deterioration of her brain tissues. But when presented with the opportunity to be rid of her visions, and live her life as though she had never met Angel, Cordelia decided to keep them and take the alternative option - becoming part-demon. Cordelia realised that her visions made her what she was, and that they had helped her to become more sensitive to others.
Cordelia’s visions were now no longer painful, and she had the skill to examine them in more depth than previously, thus becoming even more useful. Unbeknownst to everyone, it also set in motion a major chain of events — in which an evil power was able to take control of her body. On her way to reveal her love for Angel, Cordelia was met by her guide, Skip, who told her that she was ready to ascend to a higher plane to do more good.
“All I could think is that it could have been me.”Later, Cordelia returned to Earth from the higher plane with no memory of who she, or her friends were. Angel hid the truth from Cordelia, afraid it would be too much for her to handle. Cordelia was horrified when she discovered that her friends had been hiding their demon-hunting ways from her, and went to stay with Connor, Angel’s teenage son. Connor fell in love with Cordelia, who felt safe with him, but refused to let their relationship progress until she rediscovered her memories.
A spell by Lorne made Cordy’s memories come flooding back, but it also awoke in her a dark force, later to be known as Jasmine, who began to take over her body and consciousness. Cordelia’s behaviour became increasingly erratic as Jasmine took hold, and she eventually slept with Connor. Cordelia became pregnant, creating a separate body for Jasmine, who was essentially giving birth to itself. While pregnant, Cordelia killed several key figures, including Lilah, and stole Angel’s soul, leaving him as evil vampire Angelus. Meanwhile, she isolated Connor from Angel’s team, and made him distrust them.
Angel and his friends eventually discovered that Cordelia was now evil and interrogated Skip, who revealed Jasmine’s plan. He said that all the events of the last eight years had been carefully put into place, to ensure that Jasmine was born. Skip also said that Jasmine could not be removed from Cordelia without killing her or putting her into a permanent, comatose state. Before Angel could kill the woman he loved, Cordelia performed a ritual with Connor’s help to bring Jasmine out and afterwards, Cordelia fell into a coma.
After Angel joined Wolfram & Hart, Cordelia was transferred to their hospital. She awoke and helped to put Angel get back on track. He later discovered that this Cordelia was simply an astral projection facilitated by the Powers that Be, who owed her a favour for everything she she had been through. After tenderly kissing Angel and giving him a vision that pointed him in the direction of the real players in the upcoming apocalypse, it was discovered that Cordelia had died in her sleep, never having woken
“Buffy, these men are rich. And I am not being shallow. Think of all the poor people I could help with all my money.”Cordelia Chase in their own words
“Nice pet, Giles. Don't you like anything regular? Golf, USA Today, or anything?”“Why is it every time I go somewhere with you, it always ends violence and terror?”“I wish that Buffy Summers had never come to Sunnydale.”“Boy, of all the humiliations you've had I've witnessed, that was the latest.”“I told them not to move you. They probably severed your spinal cord.”From the gallery
