9 Works in Protective Rustin "Rust" Cohle
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After Rust Cohle fucks his wife, Marty Hart goes looking for revenge and finds himself instead on Marie’s porch, bleeding, ashamed, and far too close to the one piece of Rust’s life he has never understood: his younger sister.
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Sad Girls Walk South by esotericblue
Fandoms: True Detective (TV 2014), True Detective (TV 2014) RPF
14 Jul 2026
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Bonnie Vidrine is a crack in the Louisiana landscape, a pale long legged thing forever wandering highways and sugarcane fields, carrying bruises she hides and memories she cannot keep. Rust Cohle is the rot spreading through old wood, the slow decay that comes after the damage is already done. Haunted by the past, all seeing. When their paths cross outside Doumain’s Domain, he gives her a chance, they begin orbiting one another like two broken stars pulled together by gravity neither understand. Rust Cohle, recognizes something in her immediately, not who she is, but what she is.
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Jim from the precinct swears his daddy has boxes of unofficial case files at home - long-missing girls, bad scenes, things that never fit right on paper, things that sound a little too much like Dora Lange.
Naturally, Rust Cohle wants a look. He doesn’t account for the house those files live in, or for Christiana Dufrene, Jim's mute younger sister the parish has turned into a living ghost story.
Rated for canon-related material.
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Being Selfish by prettydragonbaby for Nethie (Luneth)
Fandoms: the living tombstone - Fandom
11 Dec 2025
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Rust is used to having to rescue other Tombsonas from the clutches of humans with nefarious intentions. In fact, it is something they are known for.
They are used, too, to those they rescue falling in love with them. They are used to being the knight in shining armour, the dashing hero.
What they are not used to is falling in love back.
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In other words, Tesla gets captured, Rust comes to rescue it and sparks start flying!
Enjoy!
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Alaska's spent most of her life looking for the father she once knew. Sometimes, she wishes he'd just look for her too.
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- Part 2 of Homesick for Alaska
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When Dora Lange is found posed in ritual fashion in rural Louisiana, reclusive academic Dr Evelyn March is brought in as a consultant to assist Detectives Rust Cohle and Marty Hart. But what begins as symbolic analysis quickly spirals into something darker.
Drawn into the world of revivalist ministries, sacred performance, and weaponised theology, Evelyn uncovers a culture where pain is sanctified, identity is erased, and salvation is indistinguishable from surveillance.
As the investigation deepens, so does her own entanglement - with the case, with the detectives, and with the past she’s tried to bury.
A slow-burn Southern Gothic procedural with academic bones and haunted edges that follows Season 1 of True Detective.
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You've been living in Vermilion Parish your whole life, lost somewhere between the freeways and bayous, and the 9 to 5 monotony—going nowhere fast. Nobody warned you to get lost before it gets ugly, because anyone who might've didn't know you soon enough to say it.
But you get by, and in that getting by you cross paths with another lost soul. A detective whose made it is his charge to keep bad men from the door.
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[translation]兄弟，屠夫 The Brother, the butcher by hieroglyphics
Fandoms: True Detective, Killer Joe (2011)
23 Jul 2017
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拉斯特在一时软弱之下雇佣了他的兄弟去刺杀黄衣王。
（《杀手乔》crossover，1995时期，s01e05之后，主CP Marty/Rust ）Series
- Part 16 of True Detective S1真探译文集
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Set in 1995, right after they brought the kids out of Ledoux's shed.