not to be dramatic but I would die to have saved Cordelia Chase’s character development

cordelia chase has abandonment issues this has been a PSA

examples

• her parents were never!!!! around!!! ever!! they’re mentioned in ~passing once or twice and that’s. all.
  
• u know cordy’s parents Suck so much like. they probably were Never home and cordelia probably low key raised herself
  
• also her parents probably had a messy marriage and would fight and break up and then get back together again and have total disregard for cordelia
• ….. tbh. she never has any Genuine friends for a very long time.
  
• she has the cordettes that she treats like minions/dolls etc and they’re friendships r shown as more of a ““social standing”“ thing.
  
• (like. sure. harmony was her friend but how much of a “““friend”““ was she really for cordelia until after high school)
• same w boyfriends…none were Real
• they were arm candy to her which is a Whole other Thing™ but still!!!
• cordelia never got ~close with people because she was scared they would leave her tru fact
  
• her whole speech about being lonely . classic abandonment issues
• cutting xander and the scoobies out after the xander/willow thing!!!!! UMMMM….hello….she doesn’t want Them to cut HER out. so she cuts them out first
• ok. lowkey wanting to hang with ~buffy and co. but scared she’ll lose social standing bc !!!! she can’t deal with losing ““friends”“ etc
  
• same with her bluntness
  
• u can’t make people love u but u can make them fear you
• her motherly role figure over on angel at times…um hello!! she didn’t want to lose anyone
• her detached nature re: people……. ummm classic.
• her desire 2 be popular
  
• bye cordelia chase has abandonment issues and is scared of people leaving her/not loving her
  

one of the many things that don’t make sense about season 4 of angel is that no one ever was like:  hey cordelia keeps wearing the same creepy black dress….maybe she’s evil????