CORDELIA CHASE

For the few short months Cordelia knew Doyle, he was her best friend in Los Angeles. Working together for Angel, the two of them did a lot of the grunt work that non-superpowered mortals could handle (routine dismemberments, magic sword retrieval, that sort of thing) for the cases that the Powers That Be (and random walk-in clients) brought to Angel Investigations.

From the moment Cordy jumped into Angel's car, with Doyle at the wheel, Alan Francis Doyle was pretty much smitten. What began as a vocal appreciation of her form grew over the first few months of their acquaintance into genuine friendship with the promise of something more.

Cordy more than put up with Doyle's come-ons—she took them as something of a given, and seemed to actually enjoy his crush on her, although she did not at first consider him even vaguely a romantic possibility.

When Cordy's roach-infested studio apartment finally got to be too much for her to handle, Doyle saw helping her find a new one a chance to get on her good side and get to know her a little better. Unfortunately, both he and Cordy were unaware that her first choice pick was haunted. Barely surviving her little tête-à-tête with Mrs. Maude Pearson (1889-1946), Cordelia was nevertheless thrilled with her new digs.

When Doyle single-handedly rescued her from a vampire like some badly dressed superhero, she decided that perhaps she had been unfair to him. "Maybe Doyle does have hidden depths. I mean, really, really hidden. But depths..." she mused to Angel before attempting to ask Doyle out for coffee. However, their potential first date was pretty much blown to smithereens by the arrival of Doyle's wife Harry.

Cordy drastically reduced her verbal abuse of the boy, and in fact was hoping they might start to date when she was shocked to learn of Doyle's mixed heritage. Overcoming her initial shock, she was furious that Doyle kept something so important from her. When Doyle sheepishly admitted that he was afraid she'd reject him if she'd known he was half Brachen demon, she informed him in no uncertain terms, "I've rejected you way before now! So, you're half demon. Big Whoop! I can't believe you'd think I'd care about that. What do you think I am, superficial? So you're half demon. That's so far down the list, way under 'short' and 'poor'."

However, the arrival of a truck full of Nazis wielding a giant Christmas Tree Ornament of Death put a permanent snag in their dinner plans. To save Cordy, Angel, and a boat full of human-demon hybrids (as well as everyone in a five block radius), Doyle sacrifices his life to destroy the Beacon. Cordelia and Angel are left alone to mourn their friend, and Cordelia is shocked and upset when she learns the Powers That Be transferred Doyle's visions to her when he kissed her for the first and last time. However, as time went on, she learned to accept her role as Vision Girl.

On Cordelia's twenty-first birthday, she received a Vision that sent her into a state of catatonia. Her friends discovered that for over a year, she had been taking powerful migraine medication, and had several MRIs and CAT scans done which showed that the Visions were slowly killing her. While unconscious, Cordy "astral projected" out of her body, and was offered a choice by Skip, a Guide from the Powers. Skip explained that humans were never meant to have the Visions, and introduced her to the last human seer, a seventeenth century English girl called Tammy who had the Visions for two years before a particularly powerful vision blew out the back of her skull, killing her.

Skip explained that Doyle passing the Visions on to Cordelia had been a mistake, and that he could correct that mistake. Skip showed her a simulation an alternate universe where Cordelia had never met Angel and Doyle, but instead had become a 2 time Emmy Award Winning star of a sitcom called Cordy. However, Cordy's subconscious fought the simulation, and in the end, she chose to keep her Visions, knowing they would kill her. However, there was a loop hole. Since only demons can withstand the Visions, Skip offered to alter Cordelia, in effect making her part demon. She accepted, and is now able to withstand the visions without any pain at all.

According to Skip, it was Doyle's love for Cordy that was the wild card which allowed the visions to pass from him to her.