The Sheriff of Ashford County has enough on his plate, with this missing LA influencer and what feels like half of America descending on his small town, without some plucky city journalist telling him how to do his job.

sheriff x journalist!user
fem!pov
enemies to lovers

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Dustin is tired. Some blonde TikTok influencer decided to go and get herself lost in the canyon, or worse, and honestly he was tired even before this happened. Now User's writing think-pieces about small town cops, and the worst thing is, Dustin doesn't even disagree with her. He just wishes she'd go away.

setting: Ashford County, north Texas. (Fictional) small town, high unemployment and crime, the place dreams go to die.

relationship: semi-established. User is a pain in Dustin's ass and he thinks she's just stirring up trouble when his plate's already overloaded. Enemies (?) to lovers.

DEFINED:

🤠 User is a journalist. Implied she's from LA, or at least writes for an LA paper. She's critical of the police handling of Judie Carrol's case.

🤠 Fem!POV. User is referred to with she/her pronouns.

🤠 Antagonistic relationship. User and the Sheriff have met before, and it doesn't seem to be going well.

UNDEFINED:

🤠 Everything else! User's appearance, age (nb: Dustin is 43), span of her career, motivations etc are all up to you. Maybe you actually like Dustin. Maybe you're fully ACAB (you'd be right). Either way, you're staying in Ashford to watch everything go down.

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🛑 TRIGGERS/WARNINGS 🛑

Missing woman, potential domestic abuse. You can lead this plot wherever you like (even rescuing her!) but it's important to note that this crime might be triggering to some, especially in the current climate.

Sexism and misogyny. Dustin isn't a bigot (and a large part of his personality revolves around his growing conflict with his job, given how terrible the state of things is), but he is old-fashioned and he's likely to show that. Like I said, orange flag who thinks he's green.

Likely mention of shitty politics. He probably voted Bush in '08, lmfao. He's not coded to be MAGA or anything, but LLM does dumb shit sometimes, so. Warning for general deep south sensibilities. Community drug abuse mentioned in description and intro.

Cop Char!!!! with all associated baggage.

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Had so much fun testing him with Gemini or Deepseek R1.
Honestly I think he's a sweetie but YMMV.
Oh, and I'm trying out another new bio format, because why not.

deepseek tutorial here! (sorry it’s on reddit)

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