Special Agent Donald Ressler

Member of the Ask the Blacklist RP group

[asktheblacklist]

Thank you.

I’ve started and stopped this post multiple time, just trying to find the words. This RP started over six years ago with a Reddington RP’er and a Tom RP’er who absolutely loved this show. Since then we’ve seen so many talented muns come and go for AU weekends, episode responses, and all the questions you tossed our way.  It’s been a gas, it really has, but they do say everything has to end eventually.

That said, in light of the S8 finale, the Blacklist RP team is disbanding. That means that this page, while it will remain up, will not be coordinating events, posting open accounts, etc etc… Disbanding the team doesn’t necessarily mean that the individual muns that are running the RP accounts will choose to step away. That is 100% their choice. All I’ve asked as the mod is that they let you, their followers, know if they’re going to stay and run their account as an indie RP account or choose to mark their account as inactive and step away. I’ll make sure to reblog those announcements here as well.

It’s been a wild ride just know that we love and appreciate the community of fans here more than any of us could ever say. Thank you.

[askdonaldressler]

OOC: Thank you for everything, and it's such a shame that it all ended this way. Thank you for allowing me to be part of it, if only for a short while.

[askdonaldressler]

OOC: While the RP group may have been around for many years, I've only been the Ressler RP since September 2020. It wasn't very long, but long enough to see how much fun RP could be when you love the character you're portraying. I followed in the footsteps of the first Ressler RP who did it wonderfully for many years, and then the second one, and finally I was the most recent.

I love Donald Ressler, and what he's about, who he is, what he feels and thinks, and have written many, many fanfics about him. Doing the RP was simply a different way of telling his story. Of being that character and inside his head. And I really got to enjoy it. i wasn't in it long enough to do a full AU event, but it was still fun.

But... following the events of 822, and the way our show was utterly ruined, I no longer have the heart to do the RP. All the fun has gone out of it. I feel like I'm mourning the loss of something that has been incredibly important to me for 8 years, and it's all been thrown away.

So, along with most of the other RP's, I am stepping back from the RP, and just taking stock of what The Blacklist means to me at this time. I still adore Donald Ressler, and I always will. I just love the man and can't fathom how he can ever find happiness in his life.

Thank you to everyone who sent him questions and comments. It was fun. But for now, the AskDonaldRessler account will follow in Ressler's footsteps, steal Red's whisky, and walk away.

- aussieokie

[askraymondredreddington]

What do you think about Liz and Ressler?

I think both @askelizabethscottkeen and @askdonaldressler have entered turbulent waters. If I were Donald, I’d watch my back. It’s difficult to maintain a friendship, much less anything more with a woman on a singular quest for revenge. As for Elizabeth, I hope she remembers her own words that some things are unforgivable. Some things will change you in ways you can never recover from.

[askdonaldressler]

Thanks for the, uh, concern about my love life, but after your quarterback quip, I’d tread carefully. My focus right now is on finding @askelizabethscottkeen​ before something worse happens or she gets hurt. But if I were you, I’d be more concerned about watching your own back, with Liz on this path.

[askdonaldressler]

Hello, I know this is all water under the bridge now but how do you feel about Agent Navabi (your former onetime partner) saying “Nothing personal but you sucked in bed.” Do you think Agent Keen feels the same way.

Not that it’s anyone’s business, but Navabi was just hurt I’d fired her, and Liz didn’t have any complaints.

[catasters]

[askdonaldressler]

Uh... you okay there @askalinapark? These cats are kinda creeping me out (and I don’t think those squirrels were Bureau regulation). Seems @askharoldcooper  isn’t giving you enough to do....

[askdonaldressler]

How are you feeling after everything that happened with Liz?

Now that I’ve had time to process it, my gut feeling is that I wish I could have done more and helped her so that it never reached this point. If we’d got to the park before @askraymondredreddington​ killed her mother, this wouldn’t have turned out this way.

But now @askelizabethscottkeen has gone off to who knows where. We are now tasked with finding her, but it’s not that simple. @askagentarammojtabai and I already proved how our feelings are compromising our decisions in that regard.

I care about her, and I’m worried for her safety, and that we might not find her in time before someone who means her harm catches up with her. 

[askdonaldressler]

How do you feel about Liz using you after sleeping with you? Are you okay?

Well, she didn’t ‘use me’ for the, uh, overnight part. That was consensual between us and both of us knew full well what she was saying when she wanted to spend the night and ‘rest’. Both of us wanted that.

And I dunno, I like to think I aided her, even while she was ‘using me’ to tell me which train station she was at. Why did I choose then to come clean to @askagentarammojtabai that she had called me (again)? Because I had already told her Agnes was at the Post Office, and if I’m honest, I knew she’d misdirect us and take the opportunity to retrieve her little girl.

So yeah, she did use me to get the task force out of the office, but I let it happen and I’m surprisingly good with that. @askharoldcooper asked us what it felt like to have aided @askelizabethscottkeen in taking $35m off @askraymondredreddington. So this was similar. Helping Liz get Agnes felt therapeutic too.

[askelizabethscottkeen]

are you and ressler dating?

@askdonaldressler​ is.... He means so much to me. My island of calm. He’s been there for me through the good and the bad, and most days I wonder why he keeps coming back. Why he’s willing to have my back no matter what happens. I can always rely on him.

But @askraymondredreddington just killed my mother. I saw him. I watched him do it and there’s no half truth he can tell, no story he can spin that changes that.

I’m not thinking about dating anyone. All I’m thinking about is how I’m going to make him pay.

[askraymondredreddington]

I know you don’t want to hear an explanation @askelizabethscottkeen​ but I promise you that what happened in that park is not as simple as it seems. The very last thing I ever wanted to do was to cause you pain so I’m sorry you had to witness that. 

As for @askdonaldressler​, I’d be careful if I were you about becoming entangled with a woman who professes to be on a singular quest for revenge. In my experience, such relationships can become quite messy awfully fast.

[askelizabethscottkeen]

Nothing is ever simple with you, but I know what I saw. She was unarmed. No one forced you to pull that trigger, but I saw it. I bet you are sorry I witnessed that.

If I hadn’t, would you have even told me she was dead? Or would she have just disappeared from my life again with no explanation or answers?

[askdonaldressler]

@askelizabethscottkeen I’m sorry you had to see her killed right in front of you. I’m here if you need to stop by and talk, but I think you know that.

And as for you, @askraymondredreddington I am not ‘entangled’ with Liz. You and I both know I will always be there for her, and you don’t need to go running off to tell @askharoldcooper​ all about it. I’d also appreciate it if you didn’t place any more hidden trackers on me.

[askdonaldressler]

Hey 😏 wanna tell how you feel after kissing Liz?

Hey, well, between you and this bottle of scotch, I’m still working out how I feel.... I’m torn. I care very much for Liz, and she’s made it clear she cares for me. So when we kissed, it felt right and natural. But she knows me, and I know her, so when she took my gun I was annoyed at myself, yet I understood where she was coming from. I will trust and believe in her, and be here for her as always. But I went through angry, pleading, calm, annoyed, then depressed in the space of two minutes...

[askdonaldressler]

Hope that fancy watch of yours is waterproof, you know, so you don’t let Liz get swept out to sea...on your watch.

Yeah, I see what you did there. It is waterproof, so we’re all good.

[askdonaldressler]

You should file a complaint with Reddington

Oh yeah, because I’m sure that will have such great effect. 

[askdonaldressler]

Just boring stuff, then. Bummer

Right? I mean, we’ve had a guy stewing people to death, but yeah, it’s pretty mundane around here.

[askdonaldressler]

Any interesting cases you can share?

Well, let’s see, we’ve had a guy killing people with live bugs inside them, men giving birth to babies, people frozen like popsicles, and a giant hunting people in Alaska.... But interesting? Yeah, nothing comes to mind...

[askdonaldressler]

How are you feeling about S8?

S8? Is that some new DOJ code I’m not aware of?

[askalinapark]

It's probably above our pay grade

[askdonaldressler]

Above your pay grade perhaps. I’ll get @askagentarammojtabai on it. He lives for this geek stuff and he’ll get to the bottom of it.

[askdonaldressler]

How are you feeling about S8?

S8? Is that some new DOJ code I’m not aware of?

[askdonaldressler]

What are your thoughts about Agent Park?

I think she’s very young! She kinda reminds me of who I used to be, back when I was so by the book. Back before I ever heard of @askraymondredreddington​... I think she’s already proven herself a capable agent, reminds us often of just how far down the rabbit hole we’ve come, and will be an asset to the team.

[askdonaldressler]

Just making sure we're good, Agent Ressler

Sure, we’re good. Gotta run! Blacklisters to catch!