I'm open to multiple threads with one person! If we've got plot ideas, let's do it! I'll generally use minimal formatting. I don't expect you to follow my formatting, but don't expect me to follow yours if it's super stylized. PLEASE DO NOT USE SUPER TINY TEXT. I'm old I can't read that shit. [small] is fine, but not double-small. Most threads will be paragraph/novel format or multi-para. I will generally be mutuals-only, but I will look at your blog if you follow me.
Meme me up, Scotty! If I reblog a meme, I want memes!! I'll try to send at least one to you if I reblog from you! Memes are open to everyone, regardless of mutual status, but I may not respond to all of them, it is up to my discretion. I love ask memes being turned into threads, just please do so in a separate post, don't reblog the ask.
Godmodding won't be tolerated. I do understand that as my character has a lot of abilities, he can often run the risk of god-modding. I will do my best to ensure this never happens. Talk to me OOC if you think he's doing too much. The only time I'll allow any sort of this is if it's a fight and I know the person I'm playing against well. I'm protective of my children(a grown man who is older than me is my child shush), and don't let others take control unless I know I can trust them. I will also ask before I do anything big in any thread we may have. If you want to have your character have prior knowledge, I’m super happy to talk about it OOC and figure out a relationship!
Shipping will always and forever be based on C H E M I S T R Y. If he likes the person, he likes them, and they may become a ship. If he doesn't, he will let you know. He may sleep around, but having sex does not necessarily mean he will be in a relationship with your character. Open to poly ships as well.
Always up to plot! Inbox/PM me and we can talk. DON’T force me into plots/ships/etc that don’t flow well. I’m up for trying just about anything, but if it doesn’t seem to work, please don’t try to force it. I am a hugely nice person but I don’t take kindly to being forced into something. DO push boundaries with my character. Make him uncomfortable! Just don’t force things or bring any sort of drama from OOC into IC.
Definitely always up for that. I don't know that I'll know your character's verse off the top of my head, but I'm willing to learn, and this can be talked about OOC
I love y'all, but don't expect me to follow you back just because you followed me. I am selective with who I play with. I’ll make some open starters for everyone, but I may not reply to all the responses I get. I reserve the right to follow back or not. If you follow me, rest assured, I WILL look at your blog. If I like you/your character, I'll follow you. I do not roleplay with multi-muse blogs. It confuses me too much, I'm sorry!
This blog will be rife with NSFW and trigger-related things. I will try to tag all the big ones with "trigger tw" or "trigger cw". Violence, murder, sex, and possible torture will happen on this blog, but I will never post photos of gore. Please tag gore for me. I will not roleplay sexual situations with anyone or anyone's character who is under 18 years of age. Period, end of. DO tell me if you want me to tag for anything. I am empathetic to triggers and don’t want to make our pretendy funtimes anything but fun.
I'm Erick, I'm an old damn man, but I love roleplaying. I'm very friendly so please don't hesitate to message me!! Mutuals are welcome to my skype, I'm on it a lot! feel free to message me! I love talking OOC, for plotting or just for fun chats! I love making new friends on both sides of the RPing world :3 Just be aware that I have a more than full time job (50+ hours/week), and this is my escape from that, but sometimes I have other things I need to attend to. I’ll get back to you as soon as I can, I promise. Sometimes I do forget! Feel free to poke me about a thread, but don’t poke me repeatedly, that will make me want to reply less. DO know that I’m not intimidating even if I seem it(I’ve gotten that a lot). I’m a big teddy bear, I don’t bite!!
DO communicate with me. Need me to do something? Want to drop a thread? Going on a hiatus? Want to shower me with praise? Just message me! Keep me in the loop, please! I’ve had lots of experiences with people just disappearing, and I consider every RPer I play with to be a friend. I don’t like friends just disappearing, I am fine with people having real life things happen, but just keep the communication lines open, okay? Don’t be afraid to tell me anything.
I don't own Red Reddington or The Blacklist, nor am I affiliated with anyone who does. This is all just for fun!
Name: Raymond Reddington
Codename: ????
Nicknames: Red, Ray, innumerable aliases
Age: 57.
Birthdate: February 7, 1960
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Orientation: Pansexual (Prefers women)
Profession: Criminal
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 190
Abilities: Armed forces training; quick-talker; fast thinker; manipulator; well connected; has friends in high and low places; skilled with various conventional and unconventional forms of weaponry and improvised weapons; connections to spies, thieves, smugglers, drug traffickers, people smugglers, human traffickers, arms traffickers, counterfeiters, forgers, hackers, mercenaries, and assassins; Ultimate deal-maker; Evading the government.
Hobbies:Selling secrets, influencing geopolitics, screwing with things, changing the world because he feels like it.
Positive: Cunning, Persistent, intelligent
Negative: Ruthless, borderline sociopathic, selfish
Colors: Blues, Browns
Smells: Rain, Coffee, Bourbon
Textures: Cotton, Silk, wool
Drinks: Bourbon, wine, water
Smokes: No
Drugs: No
Driver License: Yes
Ever Been Arrested?:Yes
Raymond "Red" Reddington was born February 7th, 1960 in Massachussets. He grew up and attended the Naval Academy, graduating top of his class. A few years after he was being groomed for an Admiral position, he vanished without a trace. Four years later, he resurfaced as a criminal, a major player with ties to many underworld factions. All the intelligence he'd gathered in the Navy was now for sale, and he quickly established himself as a dangerous force for law enforcement, as he could sell top secret information to the highest bidder. For the next 20 years, he sat on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, wanted for Sabotage; Destruction of Government property; Conspiracy; Unlawful flight to avoid prosecution; Violent crimes in aid of racketeering; Rico violations; Weapons violations, and other things.
Out of nowhere, he surrendered himself ot the FBI, offering to help them catch the world's most dangerous criminals they don't even know exist. He's curated a Blacklist of these people and will help, but only if his primary point of contact is new agent Elizabeth Keen.
Added as they come. Main verse will remain untagged, and there may be a clickable link in here once I actually get a Full Verses Page set up. I'm okay with multiple threads with the same character(s) being in the same verse, and if there needs to be a different verse for whatever reason, I will tag it as such. I'll default to my main-verse unless there's something that makes that unfeasible. I love AUs but unless there's a reason, each character will probably be in their own verse.
Post season 4 verse:SPOILERS PRESENT IN THIS VERSE
Default verse, untagged: Pre- Season 4 - Red is still working with the FBI and still has access to all of his assets and people, Mr. Kaplan is his cleaner, etc etc. “life as usual”, basically.
Post Season 4: Abyssus, Abyssum Invocat(Post s4) With his empire falling down around him, he's left almost entirely illiquid. He's been hobbled, and he's lost most of 30 years of hard work. Though he is still himself, and he's got to find a way to get back on top. Spoiler-heavy, as once season 5 premieres, this verse will be up to date with the currently airing episodes.
General supernatural AU: I have eyes and ears everywhere (Supernatural AU). Before computers, before automobiles, before even the dinosaurs, there was the primordial essence. It broke off in facets and as time went on, they became people, creatures whose names have now become infamous: Puck, or Robin Goodfellow, Aether, Erebus, et cetera…and Red. Throughout the centuries, the millennia, he went under many names, but always had one, singular purpose: To do fulfill his own desires. He built up empires, helped others to topple, as long as he was the quiet, hidden puppet-master, all was well. As technology advanced, so did his tactics, he learned many things from many people, and his powers only increased, for people crying out for justice, or crying about the lack thereof? Those cries fed him, grew him, kept him powerful.
Red is a Primordial being, one of the oldest of the Fae, and as such, he is immortal–or nigh-on, though Iron does hurt him. He has the power to grant wishes, but they never come without a price, and he is incredibly skilled at misdirection, and has physiology, enhanced dexterity, agility, strength, and durability. He can also summon things, and though he can summon almost anything he wants, he tends to hide his true nature unless the situation necessitates his revealing it. What fun is the world when you can get whatever you want without having to work for it?
American Gods AU: Said the fly to the spider (AmGod AU): Shortly after he turned traitor and sold the United States intelligence secrets to the highest bidder, an attempt was made on his life. He nearly died, but not before a strange, loquacious man came to him in what felt like a dream. When he awoke, renewed, he knew something was different. After Raymond’s first sleep out of the hospital, the words, the sense of purpose came to him in another dream: He had been saved for a reason, he was the God of Criminals, one who knew how to help anyone who lived between the cracks, in the seedy underbelly of the world. He found himself able to slip away undetected, and able to withstand much more than an average human.
Marvel/Super AU: The fickle nature of man (Marvel AU) Little changes from the main universe, but Red is no mere mortal. He was captured once, while still in the navy, and when these men had him, they tortured, but they also gave him something, to see what he would do with it. Red now has a few abilities. Low-level teleportation, he can move from room to room, or down the block, but he can't teleport anywhere in the world. It's got a limit of a few miles at most. He can become intangible to reach objects behind glass, or to pass through walls to evade capture, and he can also will objects to him, but they cannot be a great distance away(same couple mile radius). He has hyper-enhanced senses/abilities which includes it being harder to actually injure him, but for example if someone like Wolverine can heal a broken arm in a few minutes, it takes Red a few hours. Lastly, he has some low level glamour/morphing abilities. He can't go full mystique level morph, but he can make his face/gender different, though he can't change his eyes. All these have aided him in becoming the Concierge of Crime.Anonymously describe my muse’s aesthetic! Talk about sights, smells, textures, tastes or sounds you associate with them.
anne carson sentence starters.
quotes are all taken from various poems and essays by the queen of aesthetes, anne carson. feel free to change pronouns/add things/etc if needed.
- ‘ you are not a god. ’
- ‘ we begin in the dark and birth is the death of us. ’
- ‘ now you’ve crowned yourself one final perfect time. ’
- ‘ [ name ] was a monster. everything about him was red. ’
- ‘ what are we made of but hunger and rage? ’
- ‘ i finally decided that understanding isn’t what grief is about. ’
- ‘ honey is the sleep of the just. ’
- ‘ it is perilous to live past the end of your myth. ’
- ‘ you remember too much. ’
- ‘ when i desire you a part of me is gone. ’
- ‘ humans in love are terrible. ’
- ‘ under the seams runs the pain. ’
- ‘ men know almost nothing about desire. ’
- ‘ sex is a substitute, like money or language. ’
- ‘ what is the holiness of conversation? ’
- ‘ —you burn me. ’
- ‘ i ask this one thing: let me go mad in my own way. ’
- ‘ sometimes i just want to stop seeing. ’
- ‘ we’re all mortal, you know. ’
- ‘ i am the shape you made me. filth teaches filth. ’
- ‘ why does tragedy exist? ’
- ‘ you’re a beauty. ’
- ‘ madness and witchery are conditions commonly associated with the female voice. ’
- ‘ it made me merciless. ’
- ‘ desire is no light thing. ’
- ‘ i do not exist. there is nothing left. ’
- ‘ gods are stubborn. so am i. ’
- ‘ we had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal. ’
- ‘ i am someone who did not die when i should have died. ’
- ‘ why are you so in love with things unbearable? ’
- ‘ everything can collapse. ’
- ‘ someone will remember us. even in another time. ’
- ‘ my mind is burning. ’
- ‘ each night, about this time, he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing. ’
- ‘ love does not make me gentle or kind. ’
- ‘ i can give you reasons not do die. ’
- ‘ passivity is killing her. ’
- ‘ they are victims of love, many of them. ’
- ‘ he is a young god. ’
- ‘ you touch my soul, you pain my mind. ’
- ‘ it’s something of a cliché to say that we all think we’re monsters. ’
- ‘ i fear your sorrows make your tongue grow wild. ’
- ‘ it’s what they call ‘ecstasy’. ’
- ‘ a man who can’t die is no tragic hero. ’
- ‘ i want everything. ’
- ‘ it was like a beautiful dance where your partner turns and stabs you to death. ’
- ‘ to survive you need an edge. ’
- ‘ girls are cruelest to themselves. ’
- ‘ we are dust. ’
bonus! further quotations from award-winning poet and author anne carson:
- ‘ i am a philosopher of sandwiches. ’
- ‘ pilgrims were people glad to take off their clothing, which was on fire. ’
- ‘ english is a bitch. ’
- ‘ i wish i were two dogs. then i could play with me. ’
ANGST VERSION
cuddly / platonic-ish memes
- “your feet are cold.”
- “movies are made for watching, not for asking questions.”
- “you’re hogging the blankets!”
- “we should cuddle… for warmth.”
- “is that your hand on my leg?”
- “scoot over.”
- “can we watch something else? this is scary.”
- “are you shivering?”
- “if you start snoring, i won’t be responsible for what happens to you.”
- “did you eat all the popcorn?”
- “your hair keeps getting in my face.”
- “are you even wearing pants??”
- “stop kicking me!”
- “you’re a good pillow.”
- “do i look like a foot-rest to you?”
- “do i look like a pillow to you?”
- “i’m cold.”
- “why can’t you ever just lay still?”
I might write anything from a paragraph to a whopping essay, but send me something you’ve noticed about my characterisation or just something you want to know about my muse and I will write what I can!
//With epic contributions from the amazing drorah-walks .
“How did you get drunk off of four cups of Manischewitz? That stuff is practically water!”
“Put down the potentially leavened carbohydrate.”
“I’m basically the worst Jew ever.”
“Come on, there’s going to be brisket.”
“You need to at least try the gefilte fish. His/her recipe is famous.”
“Netflix got rid of The Prince of Egypt?”
“I just found the Afikoman… from last year.”
“I am so ready to eat.”
“Charoset!”
“She/He is just going to start in about how they want to see me married before they die.”
“Is it unethical to strangle a child? Every year, someone has to drag the Four Questions out of _____.”
“I love my family, but I’m going to kill them before the week is done.”
“These are my Swarm of Locust cookies. People swarm the plate to get some.”
“Don’t talk about Israel and Palestine at the table. Please.”
“You’re sitting on Elijah!”
“The bread of affliction has enslaved my colon.”
“This seder is enough already. Dayenu!”
“Last year, Aunt Edna lit the Yom Tov candles. All the hairspray on that wig went up like the Hindenburg.”
as requested by anon. A (cruder) continuation of this meme: ( x ). More angry sexual tension starters here ( x ). Feel free to change pronouns or anything else !
Angry
- “Is that so?”
- “Stop glaring, sweet cheeks. I know you want me.”
- “Go fuck yourself. And let me watch.”
- “You look angry. How about you take all that energy and put it to good use?”
- “Look at you, all smug. It’s not like I jerk off to you at night. But you’d like that, wouldn’t you?”
- “I can’t tell whether I want to make you bleed or moan.”
- “I hate that you’re mad at me, but you look so hot right now.”
- “Try and stop me.”
- “You’re either leaving here with a black eye or a hickey. Your choice.”
- “Fuck you! Or me.”
Flirty
- “I’m really flexible…”
- “Your girlfriend/boyfriend/partner/etc. must be really happy…”
- “Wow, you’re really easy on the eyes.”
- “You know, I don’t have a gag reflex.”
- “Is there any way I could repay you?”
- “You have really pretty lips.”
- “Can you tie a cherry stem into a knot with your tongue?”
- “You look great in this lighting. But you’d look even better in my bed.”
- “Was my pickup line too cheesy? I couldn’t help myself.”
- “You look tense..do you want a massage?” / “Wow, I totally need a massage right now.”
Awkward
- “..why are you staring at me?”
- “You have a–a really big–uh, brain.”
- “So…how do I look?”
- “You, uhm–kinda touched my–yeah..”
- “*blurts out* Did you know that pandas only mate once a year?”
- “I wasn’t watching porn!” / “I wasn’t jerking off!”
- “Hey…c-can I…maybe..kiss you?”
- “Holding hands/cuddling is nice, but…I was hoping we could do something else.”
- “Oh, sorry! Were you changing?”
- “*knocks head into (muse name)’s* Ah! S-sorry, I was trying to kiss you.”