#rust cohle — travis cohle.

[twobrokenwyngs]

Travis Cohle ⟶ True Detective Season 1: Who Goes There ⟶ True Detective Night Country: Part 2

[phasmotid]

family of lovers and quiet deaths by choice

[the-august-one]

When I suddenly remembered that Rust Cohle spent almost his entire childhood raised by his father in Alaska and now the fourth season of True Detective is set in Alaska.

And that his father's name is Travis...

And that Cohle said, "He had a lot of strange ideas..."

...That is straight up Rust's Daddeh.

[eroticwound]

hold tf up… travis cohle?! who went into the ice because he was diagnosed with leukemia? what exactly are they doing here 👀

[octoberland]

Me, after rewatching season one, before settling into watching episode three of season four: “I’m the fucking detective now”

[s4memistake]

RUST COHLE TAG DROP (1/2)

[downs1de-has-moved]

RUST COHLE: TAG DROP (1/2).

[temeryte]

Rust tag dump (1/2).

[definitionsfading]

With the new season out and Travis Cohle making an appearance, do you think you'd ever pick up writing Rust x Marty again? Love love loved your writing!

I'm not entirely sure just yet! Honestly, I think that depends on how much more lore from S1 we get in S4, and how extensively they draw potential ties back to Rust and Marty. If the Travis thing is as much as we get, I don't know if it'll necessarily light new fires in me. After all, I did already write about his final days and the old cabin in Alaska about eight years before the Night Country people did 😅 That said, I wrote over 400K of fiction for Rust/Marty back in the day, and it was...and still is...a large body of work. I'm kind of afraid I don't have much left to say? But like I said, that depends on S4 and if we get any new info or tangible strings leading back to the boys in Louisiana! WE SHALL SEE. Thank you for the love 💖

[reds-writings]

I gotta know, what do you think Rust was like when he was married and a father? I wonder about it ALL the time. There’s no way he was that different given the way he grew up but it’s so odd imagining him pre Crash

Yeah I don’t think he was vastly different pre-crash era because of how he was brought up by his father in Alaska! I’d say he was perhaps a tad less cynical and a bit more open (enough to get married and have a whole ass kid without the threat of crumbling his deep-set constitutions towards life). He was probably still on the more stoic side but could let go of that attitude a bit more seamlessly here and there. Given Travis Cohle seemed like a lil weirdo certain tendencies def passed on to Rust (especially growing up rurally and so removed from mainstream culture).

His ex-wife saw potential in that odd duck and staked claim like nobody’s business. Probably bc he’s always had that underlying charm with him being so sharp methinks.

(She was the original ‘I can fix him 😌’ and she’s real for that)

[rhaenyratargeryn]

Theories confirmed so far:

Travis is indeed Travis Cohle, aka Rust's father

Annie K was dating one of the scientists and her tongue was being kept frozen in the facility. Why? Not sure as of yet.

The Beetles song does indeed remind Danvers of her deceased son, but it wasn't tied to the accident that was shown.

New things:

Spiral. Tuttle foundation mentions. They paid for the facility, interesting tie in.

Definitely 100% convinced the Dyatlov Pass was inspiration for this case now based on the condition of the bodies.

One scientist alive so far. Some unaccounted for because they are thawing. Still running theory is the killing of the scientists was somehow revenge for Annie K, or made to look like revenge for Annie K.

I still think she most likely was killed by the miners for protesting the mine. But with the weird radio disturbances and mentions of poisoned water, I think it is save to say some hallucinations happening in the show are manmade, not spiritual.

The show keeps mentioning "asking the right questions". Which I have not been asking the right ones since I don't have all the knowledge the characters do about Ennis and the town lore/rumors.

UPDATE I HADNT FINISH THE EPISODE YET AND UH--

THE TRAILER WAS A BIT BONKERS.

And naturally, some of the god damn scientists are missing and it is the CREEPY MOFO CLARK.

New theory. The scientists dying was all Clark going bonkers and the real "mystery" is going to be who killed Annie K and catching them. And all this wild shit was the only way to get attention back to her case honestly.

[missriyochuchi]

TRAVIS COHLE!?! RUST’S FATHER!?!?! IM LOSING MY MIND

[honeybeelullaby]

The ghost of Travis? Travis Cohle?

Maybe I'm delusional, but I'm expecting a Rust Cohle cameo...

[blue---express]

Seymour Parrish Rei Ayanami The Terrorizers Rust Cohle The Batman Memento Zodiac Law & Order Silent Hill additional Travis Bickle 

[chavisory]

#ive been saying!! #like i think the straightforward explanation for this is that she is literally intended as a gender flipped travis cohle #because they wanted a link there but decided to keep it minimal (like not actually have him be in it) #but also that does mean her character essentially IS travis in all but name except shes a woman #so like. essentially yeah and that is for sure how im reading it forever #like the vibes are *astonishingly* present either way #but also yeah i choose to read her as literally travis post transition because i like that idea :)

Okay but also, there is a LOT of gender-flipping between the first and fourth season... including Liz's loss of her son Holden in a car accident (reflecting Rust's loss of his daughter the same way).

And so I don't think she literally is Travis post-transition--like we saw Travis, we know what happened to Travis, but...it is a little bit like she took Travis's place.

And if we read her as trans, she's a little bit like the ultimate embodiment of the gender-flipping that the show/this season is doing.

Hey, question.

Is Rose trans?

I know that Fiona Shaw isn't, and I'm having trouble putting my finger on what's making me wonder this about the character, but.

Is she?