A Cangel addict (Cordelia and Angel from Angel The Show)

We just had our 2025 Cangel reunion!!!

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Things I love about C/A and I imagine @hotelsongs agrees with me on this one - the physicality of it.  Their relationship (platonic or otherwise) is practically based on it, since they have to touch all the time because he’s always catching her when she gets her visions.  I mean, he’s catching her in City Of and jumping off of balconies holding her, so it’s immediately based on this sense of catching because who are these people but people who fall and get back up again.  And it’s just so important, this contact, because Angel doesn’t have contact, not physically or emotionally or really at all, for such a long time, and when he does it’s with Buffy, but with Buffy he’s so scared to touch her.  He’s so worried about what that would do.  Cordelia is an entirely different animal - her presence in his life in LA is, starting in City Of, one of contact, contact to the outside world, to humanity.  This is explicit in-text stuff.  And then that becomes physical contact, physical contact that is the drapery hiding the emotional contact and then, of course, the emotional contact bursts through and, ultimately, we have Angel in an alley in the pouring rain going down in battle because of a vision Cordelia gave him on contact.

And I know it’s 100% blasphemous to compare any relationship to Mulder and Scully but I’m sorry, I’m sticking with it.  She’s his one in five billion.  And the HANDS.  Mulder/Scully is based off of gestures and being stuffed underground to investigate the things that go bump in the night.  It’s about friendships that become something else, something surprising, something that will lead Dana Scully to say, “Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is… suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.” 

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ANGEL & CORDELIA — Our Greatest What If

hey besties 🤍 today we open an old wound.

let’s talk about a love story that none of us expected… and that somehow hurt exactly because of that.

i’m talking about Angel and Cordelia.

we all arrived in Los Angeles carrying the ghost of Buffy. we thought we already knew what Angel’s great love looked like. we thought the bar had been set, sealed, untouchable.

and then something strange happened.

Cordelia grew.

what started as comic relief, the spoiled girl, the outsider presence from another show, slowly became the emotional center of the narrative. she matured, she suffered, she stayed. she chose him, again and again, not because of destiny, but because of understanding.

and that hit differently.

because for the first time Angel wasn’t loving an ideal. he was learning how to love someone who stood next to him in the real world.

their intimacy was built in conversations, glances, trust. it was slow. adult. earned.

and maybe that’s why we believed in it.

until the story lost control of itself.

the moment Connor arrived and the mythology started twisting Cordelia into someone else — or something else — the thread snapped. possession, confusion, pregnancy, revelations… drama kept piling up but the emotional truth disappeared.

and you can feel it as a viewer when writers are escalating instead of evolving.

what hurts the most is that when she finally comes back to him, when they finally say it, when they finally kiss…

she’s already leaving.

not a beginning. a goodbye disguised as closure.

romantic? yes. satisfying? not even close.

Angel and Cordelia became the definition of potential. of almost. of what if.

i loved them. i rooted for them. i still rewatch their scenes and feel that quiet, mature tenderness that could have been extraordinary.

but it never arrived.

it’s like waiting for the crescendo of a song that fades out instead.

and maybe that’s the real tragedy: not that they loved each other.

but that the story never let them live inside that love.

sometimes i wonder what would have happened if they had been brave enough to give Angel something radical — humanity, a future, a family, peace. a counterpoint to Buffy’s loneliness.

it would have been unexpected. it would have been risky.

it would have been beautiful.

so tell me.

were you Cangel believers? or did your heart never leave Bangel?

need /nēd/ (verb) to require (something) because it is essential or very important.

You're Welcome aired for ATS season 5, episode 12. This was the last appearance of Cordelia. Cordelia returns temporarily, and she and Angel kiss. This is their first real kiss, a kiss not in a dream or caused by a spell / possession. Cordelia leaves after the kiss, and becomes a higher power.

Cordelia Chase is played by Charisma Carpenter. Cordelia was in over 140 episodes of the Buffyverse. Charisma played Cordelia in BTVS S1, S2, S3, and ATS S1, S2, S3, and S4. This was her only appearance in ATS S5.

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...and i actually LIKE angel a lot more now and i think this is why:

in btvs he really only interacts with/has a meaningful relationship with one character; buffy. which is understandable (especially after he turned evil in s2) but like. he starts s1 as buffy's Tall, Dark and Handsome cliché love interest and ends s3 as... not much else

Rebecca: Cordelia says you've saved the world.

Cordelia: I don't care how many files you have on the horrible things he did back in the powdered-wig days. He is good now. He's my friend. And nothing you can say will make me turn on a friend.

Cordelia: He's Angel. He's good. And he helps the helpless, and now he's one of them. He's gonna have to want things from life... whether he wants to or not!

Angel: You've become a truly extraordinary woman.

Cordelia: You have the biggest and best heart of anyone I've ever known.

Angel: This isn't happening because you're bad. If anything, it's because you're strong. Stronger than you realize.

Cordelia: That was the old me, wasn't it?

Angel: I like them both.

Angel: You've seen the good and the not so good.

Cordelia: Just like you have in me. And for the record, the good I've seen far outweighs the bad.

Not only did Cordelia never care about the things Angel did when he was Angelus, even though she saw Angelus up close, and adapted to his vampiric quirks to include him, but Angel also knew Cordelia when she was just a shallow, mean version of herself and he never judged her. On the contrary, he never wanted her to change. And they both found purpose and redemption together. On the same mission, by each other's side and being necessary for each other's redemption (with Angel being Cordelia's champion and Cordelia being Angel's seer, she having visions for him to resolve).