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.
Memes & Asks
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/Power Play
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
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.
Plotting
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.
AUs & Crossovers
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
Follow Backs
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!
NSFW & Triggers
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.
The Mun
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.
Credits & Disclaimers
I don't own Red Reddington or The Blacklist, nor am I affiliated with anyone who does. This is all just for fun!
BASICS
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
PHYSICAL ASPECTS
Hair: Brown Eyes: Blue Height: 5'10" Weight: 190
SKILLS
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.
Smokes: No Drugs: No DriverLicense: Yes Ever Been Arrested?:Yes
BIOGRAPHY
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.
Verses
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.
Indie Raymond "Red" Reddington from NBC's Blacklist. Private. Selective. Mun/Muse 21+. Dark Themes present. Please read rules/bio before following/interacting. Written by Erick
It had been a wonderfully exclusive party, a place for the elite in many different avenues to congregate without paparazzi or reporters, to make deals without formalities and the like. Reddington had walked away with a guaranteed trade route through Kazakhstan and stock in a start-up company that would crush Uber in under six months.
Then the storm had started.
Most of the guests had made it out, but somehow, Red found himself battening down the hatches as the gale-force winds threatened to tear the roof off the house. Luckily for him, one of the smartest and most resourceful people in the universe managed to miss the last available airship. “Anthony!” he called out, having just managed to get himself out of the storm, “Tell me you’ve got some sort of fancy gadget on you that can help reinforce these windows.” He put on the glasses that turned him from Reddington to Kenneth Rathers, brushing the water off his jacket as he leaned against the door.
I added this to my verses a little while ago, but I haven’t gotten to use it much yet! I’m following some Marvel/DC blogs so I can actually do something with it, but I wanted to give it a post, too, so it’s a lot easier to find!
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, see what he could do with it. Red now has a few abilities, and he’s used them to help him rise to the top of the criminal underworld. His powers include:
Low-level teleportation, he can move from room to room, or down the block, but he can’t teleport just anywhere in the world. It’s got a limit of a few miles at most. He shimmers, somewhat like the old charmed demons
He can become intangible to reach objects behind glass, or to pass through walls to evade capture. It helps when he’s handcuffed, or otherwise incapacitated.
He can will objects to him, but they cannot be a great distance away(same couple mile radius). The few times he’s needed to steal things, he’s been able to do so without even being in the room.
He has hyper-enhanced senses/abilities which includes it being harder to actually injure him. For example if someone like Wolverine can heal a broken arm in a few minutes, it takes Red a few hours. He’s never been close enough to death to know if he’s immortal or not, not that he knows of at least.
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. He uses this to ensure that he makes a clean getaway, and that no one can properly ID him
All these have aided him in becoming the Concierge of Crime.
Depending on who I’m interacting with, I’ve come up with the idea that instead of him turning himself into the FBI and creating the Task Force(the premise of the show he’s from), he can, potentially, turn himself into SHIELD(the good ones/whatever’s left after CATWS) and help them catch criminals/low-level powered bad guys(still pretty dangerous but think more like Wilson Fisk than Thanos)
Buuuuut yeah! I’d really like some Marvel/MCU and DCEU/DCTVU interaction!
I added this to my verses a little while ago, but I haven’t gotten to use it much yet! I’m following some Marvel/DC blogs so I can actually do something with it, but I wanted to give it a post, too, so it’s a lot easier to find!
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, see what he could do with it. Red now has a few abilities, and he’s used them to help him rise to the top of the criminal underworld. His powers include:
Low-level teleportation, he can move from room to room, or down the block, but he can’t teleport just anywhere in the world. It’s got a limit of a few miles at most. He shimmers, somewhat like the old charmed demons
He can become intangible to reach objects behind glass, or to pass through walls to evade capture. It helps when he’s handcuffed, or otherwise incapacitated.
He can will objects to him, but they cannot be a great distance away(same couple mile radius). The few times he’s needed to steal things, he’s been able to do so without even being in the room.
He has hyper-enhanced senses/abilities which includes it being harder to actually injure him. For example if someone like Wolverine can heal a broken arm in a few minutes, it takes Red a few hours. He’s never been close enough to death to know if he’s immortal or not, not that he knows of at least.
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. He uses this to ensure that he makes a clean getaway, and that no one can properly ID him
All these have aided him in becoming the Concierge of Crime.
Depending on who I’m interacting with, I’ve come up with the idea that instead of him turning himself into the FBI and creating the Task Force(the premise of the show he’s from), he can, potentially, turn himself into SHIELD(the good ones/whatever’s left after CATWS) and help them catch criminals/low-level powered bad guys(still pretty dangerous but think more like Wilson Fisk than Thanos)
Buuuuut yeah! I’d really like some Marvel/MCU and DCEU/DCTVU interaction!
“ Don’t insult my intelligence, Reddington. I was giving you an opportunity to come clean about why. ” Of course she’d known he was on her tail. Red’s good at what he does, but that only worked if his target didn’t know him on sight. What was keeping her from shooting him in the foot was beyond her. “ Now’s the time when you explain yourself. ”
Red smiled at her, “You know I would never do such a thing, Agent Romanoff. I only insult someone’s intelligence when it’s deserved, and you’re not deserving of anything of the sort.” He was glad, honestly, that she hadn’t shot first and asked questions later, he appreciated not having a bullet lodged somewhere in his body. “I heard you were in town and thought it high time we catch up,” not a lie, but not the entire truth, either. A sigh, a look of frustration before he continued. “It appears I’ve made myself a bit of a target, after helping–well, the details aren’t all that important, but your particular skillset would come in quite handy at…dispatching this threat.” He hated asking for help, he hated asking her for help even more, but he wanted to get his shadow off his back, and quickly.
“ I’d thank you, but I’m sure that’s an insult coming from the likes of you. ” If looks could kill, Red would be dead on the ground from the gaze coming out of Natasha. Which he clearly picked up, given the wide berth he gave her.
“ It’s a baseless rumor from someone trying to get rid of me, ” she sat back in her chair, a cloudy look on hatred settling over her features. “ My old master is coming ‘round to try and collect something that is no longer his. Happens every few years; nothing new. ”
“On the contrary, Miss Romanoff, regardless of our current occupations in life, when one has skills such as yours, I can recognize a force to be reckoned with.” Red wasn’t afraid of her, but he knew what she was capable of, and it was best not to invite any unnecessary fighting into his life.
A frown tugged the edges of his mouth downward, “What a shame, whoever would want to get rid of you must have been supremelyunintelligent, enough so to have found themselves on your bad side.” And now, his eyebrows bounced up in mock-surprise, every few years? “I can’t quite figure out if it will be a good thing or a bad thing to have chaos on such a tight schedule.”
“ I’m not questioning your CV, Reddington, I’m questioning your competence. ” Natasha’s usual professional manner dropped the moment she laid eyes on Red. Everything about him got under her skin. Worst of all, though, was how his shit eating grin reminded her of Ivan. “ One would think a man of your age would learn how to handle a few basic bomb making techniques. Or is it a matter of dexterity? ”
Raymond took his hands from the wiring he’d been fiddling with, “Everyone has their specialties, Miss Romanoff, mine lay more with firearms and tactics. I have someone who can make bombs for me, and much better uses of my time.” Thankfully, he remembered some basics from high school science lab, as well as sifting through old files and reports in counter-intelligence. “I prefer a more targeted approach, if possible. Bombs are always so… messy.”
