#ray vecchio

still crazy to me that victoria metcalf kinda won. she didn't get caught, she threw a massive wrench into ray's and fraser's burgeoning (but hitherto very strong) relationship, she continues to live inside both of their heads, the threat of her is always in the air... who knows when or if she'd come back, who knows how fraser would react, who knows if she'll ever leave them or if she'll always haunt some part of them. they have literal bullet scars on their bodies because of her.

things that I know in my heart are true about Ray Vecchio and Ray Kowalski post-series: even if you assume the canonical series endings for them stay that way (Vecchio in Florida with Stella, Kowalski in Canada with Fraser) people in Chicago are constantly getting them mixed up because 'forty-something ex-detective who worked with Fraser and at some point married an ASA called Stella': that is the same man. in everybody's heads they are just sort of the same guy. the Ur-Ray. nobody can remember which one went to Florida and which one went to Canada. every time either one returns to Chicago it drives them both nuts.