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schmericaSometimes it seems like people like to write Fraser as very ... cut off from the world, I guess. It's something that I don't quite understand fully. In some ways, Fraser is a very inward person, yes; I don't think a lot of people get to know him very well, and I don't think he has a lot of close friends. But on the other, he's also the person who knows every single person he's ever come across -- his neighbours, his coworkers, people around town -- and remembers their names and their kids' names and their jobs and any random information about them at all. Even in Chicago, he's purposely friendly: he makes an effort at community.
(There are post-CotW stories I have read that posit Fraser as inward and antisocial, and have Ray Kowalski pulling him out of his shell to interact with the people there. This blows my mind.)
I have a different favorite thing about Fraser everyday, just about, but today, I'm stuck thinking about his affinity for certain types of people. This is different from just the friendliness and neighborliness I was talking about above, because there are some people that he seems to have an instant connection with. The lost; the confused; the vulnerable. Teenage girls seem to fit into this category often -- Eloise from "Say Amen", Melissa from "Some Like It Red", Andy from "The Promise." You can see it with Bruce in "I Coulda Been a Defendent"; the scene where Fraser's in the interrogation room with his head on his hands makes me ache inside.
I think some of the strongest parts of the Fraser-Kowalski partnership probably come from Fraser seeing this in RayK, too. You can see bits of it as early as "Eclipse", but it really begins to blossom in "Strange Bedfellows." A couple more hints in "Mountie and Soul", "Asylum", "Easy Money", but it's really in "The Ladies' Man" that it comes to a climax.
And, really, Fraser's vision of Victoria is sort of the ultimate expression of this part of his character. Every time he talks about her, it's just pointing directly to this. Lost, confused, vulnerable: Fraser's a sucker for it everytime, he wants to help. Because, well. Fraser knows what it's like.
(There are post-CotW stories I have read that posit Fraser as inward and antisocial, and have Ray Kowalski pulling him out of his shell to interact with the people there. This blows my mind.)
I have a different favorite thing about Fraser everyday, just about, but today, I'm stuck thinking about his affinity for certain types of people. This is different from just the friendliness and neighborliness I was talking about above, because there are some people that he seems to have an instant connection with. The lost; the confused; the vulnerable. Teenage girls seem to fit into this category often -- Eloise from "Say Amen", Melissa from "Some Like It Red", Andy from "The Promise." You can see it with Bruce in "I Coulda Been a Defendent"; the scene where Fraser's in the interrogation room with his head on his hands makes me ache inside.
I think some of the strongest parts of the Fraser-Kowalski partnership probably come from Fraser seeing this in RayK, too. You can see bits of it as early as "Eclipse", but it really begins to blossom in "Strange Bedfellows." A couple more hints in "Mountie and Soul", "Asylum", "Easy Money", but it's really in "The Ladies' Man" that it comes to a climax.
And, really, Fraser's vision of Victoria is sort of the ultimate expression of this part of his character. Every time he talks about her, it's just pointing directly to this. Lost, confused, vulnerable: Fraser's a sucker for it everytime, he wants to help. Because, well. Fraser knows what it's like.
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