CONSTABLE BENTON FRASER is from the 1994 Canadian TV series Due South, played here by Richard. His journal can be found at chicagomountie. His mun can be found at chicagomountie@gmail.com.
Constable Fraser is a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. His place in the series' timeline for those familiar with the show is after the events of Hunting Season but before the events of Call of the Wild. His PB is Paul Gross.
Fraser is the consummate example of a Mountie: generous, polite, and always willing to assist someone in need. He has a strong moral compass and a fierce dedication to seeing something through to its conclusion. He applies himself to everything he does, and takes a great personal pride in his immaculate appearance and in helping others, even if doing so means landing himself in the most bizarre of situations. He's frequently accompanied by his white wolf, Diefenbaker, who is deaf, but can lip read (when he feels like it), in both Inuktitut and English. Raised by his grandparents after his mother died, Fraser is far more at home in the snowbound Northwest Territories of places such as Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk than the city. He quickly has to adjust to life in Chicago, however, when his father, also a Mountie, is shot dead, and their trail leads him to the States. He enlists the reluctant help of Chicago detective Ray Vecchio in the process. After uncovering a plot that included his own father's best friend, and a significant Canadian government coverup, Fraser is rendered persona non grata in his beloved Canada, and he ends up posted permanently at the Consulate in Chicago where he regularly ends up getting involved with solving crime, usually with the ever-complaining Vecchio in tow. After a couple of years, Ray had to leave on an undercover assignment, and Detective Kowalski took on Vecchio's identity to help cover for his absence. Little did he realise who and what he was inheriting along with it.
Fraser has an encylopaedic memory, having been homeschooled in his grandparents' library, but he lacks the exposure to most pop culture that others take for granted, and seems naiive and a little awkward socially. His enthusiasm and dedication to his job are second to none; though he's not entirely above a little passive-aggressive behaviour to enable him to get his way, especially when Ray is digging in his heels. He's something of a control freak - he doesn't quite know how to express himself emotionally, preferring to use the spectre of his dead father who keeps showing up at the most inconvenient of times as a release valve for his long-held resentment at him for never being around. His wolf Diefenbaker also bears the private, verbal brunt of his more genuine self, though the two are and will ever be inseparable.
Fraser is somewhat verbose in his conversation, and will rarely miss the opportunity to elaborate upon a topic given the opportunity. He has innumerable stories and traditions that he picked up from not just his extensive reading as a boy, but from the native Inuit of the Territories where he grew up. Although he never carries a sidearm in the U.S., as he has no license for one in that country, he is an expert marksman with both pistol and rifle.
Constable Fraser has replaced the actor Paul Gross. This is likely to lead to a great deal of confusion on his part.
Since arriving in UTR's world, Fraser has undergone a mountain of paperwork in order to be reinstated as a member of the Force, and underwent a six-week lateral entry program at the RCMP's Depot Division in Regina, Saskatchewan. He has since graduated and is once more officially a Constable of the RCMP, though his base is currently in London. His now-former superior officer, Inspector Thatcher, was not so fortunate, her application for reinstatement being denied. In the interim, he and the Inspector have struck up a more official, personal relationship, now that they are no longer restrained by the RCMP's regulations surrounding fraternisation.
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