Fraisse
Names: FraisseElder Fraisse
First appears in Book 3: Death's End, chapter 35 (Post-Deterrence Era, Year 2 Australia)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 3: Death's End
- Ch 35Fraisse is an elderly Aboriginal man, formerly a wealthy Melbourne doctor and head of an Aboriginal cultural preservation organization, who hibernated in the Crisis Era.
- Ch 35Fraisse took Cheng Xin and AA into his house, giving them stability and calm; he says 'Whatever people do, the gods remember.'
- Ch 35Fraisse performed a fierce Māori war haka and told Cheng Xin she failed to hold the enemy's gaze, but that it was not her fault.
- Ch 35Since the Great Resettlement began, Fraisse feels himself awakening as a creature of earth and forest and sleeps outdoors, unsure what portent this is.
- Ch 35Fraisse is an orthopedist who suggests the Trisolarans, having once lacked something, may have overcompensated like a healed bone, to an unknown extent.
- Ch 35Fraisse recites poetry by Aboriginal poet Jack Davis under the stars, then falls asleep against the doorframe.
- Ch 35Fraisse knows Wade and tells Cheng Xin to listen to him, but says leaving Australia is impossible.
- Ch 41Fraisse returned to his house near Warburton, donated it to the government as an Aboriginal cultural museum, and lives in a tent in the woods.
- Ch 41Fraisse is Cheng Xin's main support; he phones her several times daily with simple remarks about the sun, rain and desert, calling her 'Child'.
- Ch 41Fraisse was taken out of Australia together with AA during the dark period at the end of the Great Resettlement.
- Ch 45Fraisse is one of Cheng Xin's two real friends and calls her briefly, voice only, without video.
- Ch 65He lived to 150 and died more than ten years before Cheng Xin visited Canberra.
Connections
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 35Fraisse's haka
Fraisse performs a true Māori war haka for Cheng Xin and AA and comforts Cheng Xin that her failure was not her fault.
- Book 3 · Ch 35Cheng Xin goes blind and rescues her friends
Cheng Xin faints on hearing the announcement and wakes blind. She speaks to Sophon by phone, asking that AA and Fraisse be evacuated, and refuses to leave herself.
- Book 3 · Ch 41Destruction of Trisolaris seen from Earth
Fraisse wakes Cheng Xin at night to look at the sky. A star outside the Solar System flares brighter than the full moon, turns white, fades to red and goes out, confirming dark forest theory.
- Book 3 · Ch 45Cheng Xin's near-suicide
Cheng Xin, distressed by the cult around her, prepares to swallow her last hibernation capsule but is stopped by Fraisse's call and her thoughts of her friends.