#Ask Uncle Murdoc

[snobgoblin]

If Ace is Murdoc's brother as you have stated you believed, that means your child is a Niccals.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SHE COMES FROM *TWO* BAD FAMILIES

[supernatural-bias]

𝐓𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲

↳ summary: the day that landed your coworker in the hospital, and a car in the side of a building

↳ warnings: some blood, mentions of alcohol, some hurt but everyone turns out okay, and murdoc being murdoc

↳ notes: had a close friend that knows nothing about gorillaz beta read this, and they convinced me to post it. enjoy. reblogs and comments are more than appreciated

↳ song: da funk—daft punk

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Business at Uncle Norm’s Organ Emporium had been steady that day.

You remember it being around three in the afternoon when your shift rounded its end. The busted heater of the store rattled with a wheeze as it desperately tried to stay on, and you reveled in the momentary relief it brought you from the cold weather. Customers shuffled amongst isles lined with various vinyl’s and cd’s, occasionally approaching you at the front desk to ask a question or secure their purchase. Only one or two complained about the mold in the corners of the room this time—an overall win for the day, you mused. 

“‘Ello.”

The small shop filled with a tinkling noise as the glass door to the outside swung open. A burst of cold air came with it, and the customers nearest the entrance bundled up tighter for the moment. You just exchanged a polite look with the newest addition to the store, eager to get off your feet and go home.

Stuart Pot’s green eyes flitted to you for a moment as he offered a small smile to accompany his hello. He took a moment to breathe in the warm air of the shop, no longer disrupted by the draft he had let in, before shedding his coat and starting forward. No doubt preparing himself for the beginning of his shift.

Stuart was a man that seemed to be all legs and no brain. Most people upon meeting him assumed he was stupid, walking all over him until he said something to make them think otherwise about their actions. You yourself wouldn’t have made much of him if he hadn’t struck up a conversation one day. Now, he was one of the only people you talked to on a regular basis. Pretty sad, considering he was just your coworker, but not at all unexpected for having just moved here.

You knew he liked roller skating and wanted to be a storm chaser as a kid. You knew he had a girlfriend that played guitar, and spent his spare time painting. And after one unforgettable day when you decided to bring your lunch in, you now knew his lips ballooned up when he ate pickles.

Stuart really wasn’t a difficult guy to get along with. And while your job wasn’t bad, it was always nice to have something of a friend to complain about it with.

“Afternoon.” You settled for nodding at him as he rounded the corner of the desk, pushing yourself out of the leaning position you had been in to allow him space behind the register. “It’s a real nasty one out there, yeah?”

“Only if yew don’t have a car.” Stuart, who had insisted you call him Stu for the past year now, shrugged. In truth, it wasn’t that he didn’t have a car, just that he didn’t know how to drive it. But that wasn’t anything important you needed to know.

You nodded in agreement as he panned away from you to clock in. At that moment across the store, a customer opened the door Stuart had just come from only to have the wind outside blow it closed right in their face. They took a moment to struggle with it before stumbling outside, looking displeased as they did so.

You made a face.

On a nearby chair hung your own scarf and jacket that you’d brought for the walk home. And while your feet hurt something awful, the thin layers you had brought in preparation of the temperature made you hesitate. Clearly you hadn’t thought long enough about how cold it would get. You sighed in defeat before turning back to Stuart.

“So, how have you been?”

The blue haired man blinked at your form leaning on the counter, no doubt wondering why you weren’t heading out. With a huff of air, you tossed the formalities in favor of a more straightforward conversation.

“It’s freezing out there.” You scrunched up your nose. “I don’t want to walk all the way through town in that just to get to my flat and find out my landlord forgot to fix the heat again. At least here has some warmth.”

“True.” Stuart’s voice cracked in its familiar fashion. Ever a man of few words, he just stood awkwardly, biting at a stray fingernail or two as a nasty habit. Thankfully the silence didn’t linger long before someone shuffled up to purchase a new set of guitar picks.

“Have you heard the new album that we got last week yet?” You mused after he was done ringing the fellow up, pushing yourself off and jumping over the front desk to point at a collection of records. “I thought it was pretty good, and it sounded like one of those underground bands you like to talk about.”

Stuart immediately perked up when you started talking about music; as he always did. It shouldn’t have surprised you, really, to work at a music shop with someone that was passionate about the art form. But with the way Stuart rambled on every now and then you’d think that that’s all he ever thought about.

Nimble fingers picked up the artists cover as Stuart turned it over to the description on the back. When you hadn’t been looking, he’d abandoned his post in favor of the possibility of a new song track, moving surprisingly quiet for someone of his height.

“Homework?” Stuart parroted the title back at you as he read through the track names. “Sounds funny.”

“Lot’s of people think the same thing about you.” You grinned with teeth, unaffected by his suspicion. Stuart just looked at you owlishly, letting a small gap toothed smile show as he caught onto the joke.

“‘S nawt my fault I got an accent.” He placed the album under his arm for later, no doubt going to utilize the employee discount you and him were so generously offered. “If anyfing you’re the weird one.”

You would have responded. In fact, your lips had already opened— ready to rebuke his claim —when a horrible screeching noise stopped you.

The front of the store exploded into a brilliant shower of glass mere seconds later. Shards glittering in the grey light from outside threw themselves at you, covering the skin along your arms and face with a tingly feeling. You barely had time to process a slow trickle of something warm making its way down your face before your body reacted for you. 

A poorly carpeted floor felt the weight of your backside as you fell back, bumping your head on a nearby table in the process. Somewhere a few feet away from you, you heard high pitched groaning that sounded faintly like Stuart’s voice, and a gleeful cackle that incited a splitting headache.

Faint sirens wailed in the background as you wobbly stood to your feet. The sight before you was much different than it had been a few moments ago. Pianos and cases of speakers that you had spent the better part of last week propping up were now in pieces. Some made sparking noises as they lay in disarray. You stared at them as your vision swam, not yet aware of the yelling figures around you or of the  small pool of blood collecting at your feet.

But the biggest change by far you noticed, was the giant car sticking through the front of the shop.

At the wheel was the source of the maniacal laughing. In the three seconds it took to give him a once over, you observed more details about the driver than you could ever want in your life.

He had olive toned skin that was lined with sparse scars. His teeth were yellowed and pointed in an unnatural manner, and his hair fell just about halfway over his eyes; which when he opened them you saw were two different colors. One black, and the other a faded pink. It didn’t take long for his gaze to land on you.

“Oi! Did you bloody see that!” He shouted with glee, apparently ignorant to the chaos he had caused. “Brilliant! Bloody brilliant! Can’t even say I’m sorry about the cuts, love.”

His gravelly tone did nothing to snap your brain out of the haze it was floating in. With a far away look, you stared straight through the driver.

Later you wouldn’t remember the way his eyes widened as you mumbled something with a frown before collapsing forward on the hood of his car, fading into a restless realm of black.

You were fine.

Stuart Pot was fine. 

At least that’s what the tests said. 

Doctor after doctor had come in and out of your room with clipboards before they allowed you to even so much as get up. They’d given up on keeping you off your feet after you rolled out of bed as an act of defiance.

Everything was too white. Hospitals had always felt so artificial to you, so being stuck in one was nothing short of a nuisance. Beeping machines in your ear only proved to aggravate you further, testing your nerves. Thankfully, a nurse was sent in to discharge you, bringing news of only a few cuts they had disinfected, and some minor head trauma that should be okay as long as you kept an eye on it.

Now here you sat, just a few rooms over from the one you had just woken up in, sitting in a visitors chair next to your only friend.

Your only, catatonic, unresponsive friend.

Stuart’s hospital room was busier than yours. There were more machines, more i.v drips, and more nurse visits than yours had. It was to be expected, though. He had gotten hit with the car head on instead of just being near it, unlike you and the other spectators. The only thing keeping your stresses at bay was that his vitals were steady. 

Blue hair splayed itself all around his pillow like a halo as he lay almost peacefully. His chest was moving up and down at an even pace, the gap in his teeth making a whistling noise as he breathed. You would have felt more relieved about it all, if it wasn’t for his eye.

It was fucked. That was the simple way to put it. Completely and utterly fucked. Where a gaze of mossy green had been prior, there was now brilliant bloody red. The entirety of it had been consumed by an inky darkness, making it look like the appendage had just popped right on out of his face. You were unaware if Stuart could see you staring at him from time to time, but you figured if he could, all he would see was pain on your face. Pain, not at his appearance, but at the trauma that was sure to come from it when he woke up.

There had been a third party to visit Stuarts bed not too long ago, sporting sunglasses indoors and black lipstick, and proving to be a very useful distraction for you. You hadn’t recognized her at first until she rushed to Stuart’s bedside, clutching at his hand like it would somehow shock him back awake.

Paula Cracker was just as you remembered her; loud and unabashed. The one time she had come by the shop to pick up Stu on her way home hadn’t been particularly interesting, if the way she barely looked at you before screaming along to her radio said anything. Stuart had to assure you the next day that she didn’t mean any harm. She just wasn’t all for meeting new people. 

You had shaken your head at him and said nothing at the time.

But now, in the hospital, sitting by her boyfriend’s bed, Paula couldn’t seem to stop talking to you. She ran right into conversations like they were open doors, barely leaving any room for you to respond before barreling on. By the time she declared that she had to leave, no matter how much she apparently wished to stay, you had counted a total of ten words that you’d managed to get in. You offered her a short goodbye to match. She didn’t seem to notice.

You settled into a morose silence after that. Nurses stopped coming in, and you stopped waiting for something, anything at all, to happen. It was beginning to set in that Stu had been, to out it bluntly, run over, and wouldn’t be waking up anytime soon.

You had just begun to wonder if you should head home when the door knob to the room rattled, and opened harshly.

“Well this is bloody brilliant.”

The door to the hospital room, which you could have sworn Paula had just walked out of, swung open in a wide berth to reveal the very person that landed you in the hospital.

A quick glance at the clock let you know that Paula had been gone for almost two hours, leaving you to sit by yourself as Stu stayed put. 

“What are you doing here.” Your mouth moved before you could stop it, sentence slipping past your lips in a weak attempt to make sense of this unsettlingly human being.

He looked the very same as he had the last time the two of you met. Just this time with an upside down cross for a necklace, and less blood on his hands. Literally.

The stranger made his way over to you, flopping down in a visitor chair and lighting a cigarette with one very dented lighter. He smiled cruelly at you, showing off a familiar row of teeth. They were as pointed as you remembered.

“Charity.” He tacked on a weird laugh at the end through the stick in his mouth. Two fingers lifted to his lips to remove the cigarette, a thick plume of smoke coming with it. He blew it in your face, and if you hadn’t been so lost in thought, you might have hit him for it.

“You don’t seem the charitable type.” Once again, your words were getting ahead of you. But he didn’t seem to be offended at all. Rather, the man gave a bone chilling laugh that was ended with another drag of his fag.

“Court mandated.” He continued with a smirk.

“They already had you tried?”

“What can I say? The law works fast when it comes to Murdoc Niccals.” He shrugged, once again with that strange laugh of his that accompanied nearly everything he said.

You simply eyed him with a tired sort of caution, drinking in the new information like it could kill you at any second.

“What? Not going to share your name with me?” Murdoc sneered. “It’s only polite.”

“When it comes to you, I have a feeling manners don’t really apply.” You grumbled, but ended up sharing your name all the same. Murdoc nodded slowly in response. You saw his eyes flick you up and down a couple times— something that made you clench a fist —before they found their way over to Stu’s bed.

“Hafta take care of him for ten hours.” He continued to explain without a hint of regret for the individual. “Apparently knocking some scrub in the noggin’ is a crime.”

“I wonder why.” You responded dryly, scratching at the bottom of your right eye without thinking about it.

“Wish I’d hit someone better looking with my car.” Murdoc laughed with a not so subtle look to you. “Wouldn’t mind taking care of ‘em for a few hours.”

“You just crashed a car into the front of a building and nearly killed someone. I don’t think I’d trust you with as much as a dead fish, much less Stuart.” You crinkled your nose. ‘Or me,’ your brain silently added.

“Not much you or I can do ‘bout it now, love.” He took another smoke to punctuate his sentence. It left you with furrowed brows and downturned lips. Murdoc snickered at your expression.

“I mean, it wouldn’t that be hard to watch you.” 

“Didn’t know you were into that.” The man sported a shark’s grin, only dropping it when you made a fake vomiting noise.

“God no. I meant watch you while you take care of Stu. Make sure you don’t do anything to him.” 

“I’m hurt you think I’d do anything unethical to Steve.” He scoffed.

“Stuart.”

“Same thing.” He shrugged. You didn’t bother to correct him.

The two of you delved into an awkward pause that was timed by the ticking of the nearby wall clock. While you were busy thinking about what exactly you had just offered yourself up for, you could tell Murdoc was growing bored. You fell back on bouncing your leg as you analyzed him, the bottom half of your body attempting to get out all of the nervous energy you had been bottling up.

“Well—" Murdoc flicked a bit of ash off the butt of his cigarette, putting it out against the armrest of his chair. “—this was a joy, yeah? Let’s never do it again.”

You couldn’t help but mumble an agreement in his direction. He stood up with a twist of his back, letting out a satisfied sigh as it cracked.

“Guess I’ll see you soon, love.” Murdoc chuckled darkly while heading for the door. One leather clad boot was out the exit before he paused, necklace bouncing against his chest as he turned to look at you.

“Say. You don’t play any instruments, do you?” His eyes held an unreadable emotion.

“Uh, I dabble. Stu is more of the music guy than me.” You responded. “Why?”

But he was already gone, leaving you to wonder if he had never been there. But the ash on the chair next to you and the faint smell of booze in the air told you otherwise.

You let your head fall into the embrace of your hands as you groaned, massaging at your temples in an attempt to quell the pounding in your head.

“What have I gotten myself into.”

[nelyoslegalteam]

please tell me about your dnd campaign, stranger

hi hi hi hi hi hi hi do you have any idea how happy i am to get this ask. you have activated my trap card this is going to be SO long i am sorry in advance but The People Need To Know About My D&D Campaign.

so we’re playing in Adventures in Middle Earth, which is. supposedly a Tolkienverse-specific 5e mod but frankly it’s robust enough to fully count as its own system if you ask me. like it has its own guidebooks, character sheets, premade adventures, and features mechanics that 5e just straight up doesn’t have. it’s like if 5e were actually good. anyway. may i present to you:

｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆ The Mirkwood Campaign ｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆

so what, exactly, happened in the intervening years between the events of the Hobbit and LOTR? we did, BAYBEEEEEE!!

we are:

Murdoc, a hobbitish warden (adventures in middle earth’s version of a bard), played by yours truly!! raised in the shire and eventually moved out to the middle of mirkwood by an eccentric uncle who idolizes bilbo baggins, murdoc is the heir apparent to the brandybuck family inn. unfortunately for murdoc, he has developed extremely nasty prophetic dreams and is now burdened with the ability to see the future! a skill that has definitely left him with a very normal relationship to his new day job of Being An Adventurer!! i am unhinged and have uh. Talked About Him A LOT If You Care To Read This, but he is full of murderous rage and also tea and loves his friends very much. he also, more recently, surrendered himself as bait to the great werewolf plaguing mirkwood, trusting completely that his friends would come and save him. he was right. they did. and he lost his right hand in the process. :)

Ríros, an elven warrior (aime version of a fighter), played by @jaz-the-bard. tall, buff, sunshiny, and an absolute himbo. ALSO loves his friends VERY much and this is KEY. unfortunately for ríros, he is a redhead, and that does cause problems in a world where maedhros feänorion once existed. (stranger, i am so sorry if you are not one of my silmarillion regulars and did not know what you were getting into by asking me, a silmarillion blog, to tell you about my d&d campaign, and now have no idea who or what the fuck i am talking about). ríros is notably not maedhros though! he isn't even noldorin!! maedhros is a ghost who lives in his sword (and who is also played by jaz)! and who also maybe kind of accidentally possessed him one time, if you wanna read this here for a better explanation of ríros mostly but also all of the above.

The Bearer, a human slayer (aime barbarian), played by @thymo-leonta. grumpy old man. unwilling father to all these young and stupid adventurers he’s been stuck with. are they all adults? yeah sure. they’re still Children. we are making him go grey. also full of murderous rage. looks like he's running from his perfectly normal, happy, loving family. is actually acutely aware of the fact that he has been doomed to die. killed the werewolf that took murdoc's hand. as a consequence, became the werewolf that took murdoc's hand. has two dogs, both named Dog <3

Déorwyn, a human wanderer (aime ranger), played by @shadowkat2000. resident party Horse Girl. a fellow sufferer of The Bad Prophetic Dreams^TM. because this is not quite unfortunate enough for her, déorwyn Hears Dead People. apparently our GM gives her extra secret bonus ghosts that the rest of us do not hear or know about! this being the source of her foresight makes her pretty distinct from murdoc, despite them both seemingly suffering from the same thing, in ways that i have LOTS of emotions about. her horse is named windrider and Their Bond Is Unbreakable uwu

and @potatoobsessed999, our obligatorily Extremely Ominous GM!

(we are also occasionally joined by Ioreth, a human treasure hunter (aime rogue), whose player is unfortunately not on tumblr. a founding member of the party, has earned the epithet The Feral, mostly loves to hang out in the woods by herself, look for shiny things, and cause chaos. as a beorning, she CAN astral-project herself as a bear. it rules. once got possessed by a ringwraith, probably holds the most compassion for characters who have been through similar out of any of us. is usually covered in mud.)

initially in the employ of radagast the brown, a tenure that did not last due to murdoc's insistence that saruman is evil (i mean. yeah lol.), we're a group of adventurers traveling mirkwood with the aim to defend it as sauron slowly gathers power. we are

very

successful at the Fighting And Killing Things part of this

we specialize in:

lugging unconscious bodies through the woods!

lugging DEAD bodies through the woods!

lugging EACH OTHER'S bodies through the woods!

lugging things through the woods in general!

setting things on fire (usually murdoc's fault)!

making fun of our enemies so bad they just give up!

INCLUDING the ringwraiths (shoutout to ríros)!

serving annoying politicians subpoenas!

murdering them like the one time it was totally justified we promise!

accidentally convincing the council of mirkwood that murdoc's inn is a small fiefdom!

being generally cursed (except for ríros) (he just looks that way)!

HIRE US to take care of whatever problems are happening in YOUR local cursed forest! wights? patricidal politicians? generally awful politicians? sauron? the same fucking werewolf again? it's definitely just tuesday to us!

you can count on

｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆ the union of murdoc ｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆

anyhow, jaz is absolutely wonderful and has written several fics of our party, including (but not limited to):

Cooking Contest for the Free Peoples, based on an in-game conversation about beating sauron at competitive cooking,

In Which There Are More Ghosts, which is not canon to game but is in fact Extremely Representative of the exact kind of nonsense we get up to (campaign's haunted),

A Stranger With a Friend's Face, a canon to game horror story of how ríros got slightly possessed, the party acquired maedhros, and neither murdoc nor déorwyn managed to explain the presence of the vengeful ghost residing in murdoc's scepter and bullying him in his dreams to any of the rest of the party right up until this very moment,

and this wonderful drabble from the horror arc in which we were isolated inside of a haunted longhouse. complete with party memes here.

there's more, and i am going to a.) pick on jaz to add them if they can find them, and b.) pick on my beloved friends in general to Please Help Me Infodump About our Game!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Top to Bottom, Left to Right: Murdoc, the Bearer, Déorwyn, Ríros, Ioreth]

[zombie-flesh-eaters]

HELLO AND WELCOME TO A SWITCHED AU OF GORILLAZ!!

THE SWITCHED MEMBERS OF THIS AU ARE:

RUSSEL HOBBS → MURDOC

MURDOC NICCALS → 2D

STUART “2D” POT → NOODLE

NOODLE → RUSSEL

A (very) BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE MEMBERS:

Murdoc- Born June 6, 1966. A renowned bassist who was heavily coerced into joining the band. The first member to join. Somewhat aloof but very intelligent. He usually breaks up fights between 2D and Noodle but he sometimes gets into fights with 2D as well.

Russel- Born on June 3, 1990. He was 10 when he joined the band. He is haunted by his dead friend “Del” who people think is an imaginary friend. Plays the drums and percussion relatively well. Expelled from school, which is the only thing he knows about his past.

2D- Born May 23, 1978. He started and is the leader of the band after quitting his job working at “Uncle Norm’s Keyboard Emporium.”  He got his black eyes after getting into two separate car crashes while Murdoc was behind the wheel. (Murdoc is now no longer allowed to drive.)

NOODLE- Born October 31, 1975. A ditsy junkie who loves playing guitar. Kidnapped by 2D after getting drunk at a bar. Her hair is permanently a slight red because she fell out of a tree when a teenager. She used to live in Japan but moved to the UK when she was a teenager so her English is rough.

ASKS ARE OPEN FOR ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING

AU IS INSPIRED BY @g-switched

[dasmores237]

Throughout the phases

I’m sure if you’ve been on my account or scrolling through the oddly dead Murdoc tag on here you’ve seen my OC Marilyn so I’ve decided to explain a bit here and explain through the phases!

Marilyn was an accident to be blunt. She was a mishap between Murdoc and a prostitute in Mexico, born some time around 2002. Her mother didn’t have the funds nor the time or patience to take care of her so she decided leaving her with her biological father was a good idea so she flew all the way to the UK and left the 3 year old there in 2005 forcing him to take responsibility and take care of the thing. He was extremely opposed to this and heavily entertained the idea of putting her up for adoption but ended up siding against it last minute due to the similarities between his childhood and how he came to live with his father. He decided he wanted to be better than that man and kept her ever since.

Phase 2: When she first came to live with the group she was a introverted but polite child. She didn’t talk much and would often motion for something she wanted rather than asking. This was mostly due to the fact that she had a limited vocabulary since her mother was Hispanic and spoke a mixed verity of Spanish and English to her and she didn’t know what one to use. Thankfully Murdoc knew Spanish so he could understand and talk to her but quickly they taught her English. She opened up a bit during this time and became very comfortable around her family and never wanted to be away from them. She took a strong liking to 2D as if he were her uncle and this made Murdoc extremely jealous. She also liked Noodle a lot since she was around her age a bit more and loved Russel. She talked a lot more during this time and became very clingy and wanted to be held and carried a lot by others for comfort. This was a bit annoying on the surface to her father but deep down he found it endearing. She often had to go to sets where they were recording videos for and was in the crowd of kids for Dirty Harry and refused to go on the set for Feel Good Inc because the laugh scared her. She also was the inspiration for the title of the song El Mañana.

Phase 3: After the fiasco of El Mañana and the group splitting up, Murdoc took his daughter and set off, the two finding plastic beach and staying there. Murdoc admittedly left the 5 year old alone with Cyborg Noodle who, surprisingly, turned out to be a great babysitter, but Marilyn was still scared of her since she was afraid of robots and she wasn’t the “Real Noodle”. Murdoc returned with 2D and forced the man alone down in the basement as a sort of torture since he was afraid of whales. Marilyn adventured down there one day while Murdoc was pre-occupied and was overjoyed to see her uncle again, secretly keeping the man company any chance she got. She eventually warmed up to Cyborg Noodle but still was afraid of her and wanted her real aunt back. She was in the car during Stylo in the backseat with Cyborg and helped her dad write Melancholy Hill late one night by sleepily wandering around the room and shouting out rhymes to words he would read aloud to himself. She was overjoyed to learn Noodle was alive and was the first to hug the woman when she arrived on the island with Russel, thankful her odd little family was alive and together again and they were able to return home. However While Murdoc was in prison yet again, her mother had to come and take care of her. Her mother wasn’t the best and after staying with her for 2 years she couldn’t take it anymore and the minute she heard her dad had parole and moved in with Albarn she got in contact with him and begged him to let her stay with her father or literally anyone else. Unable to say no to such a desperate offer she went back to saying with her dad who she claimed was “Like a new person. In a good way I think.”

Phase 4: Not much happened during this time except for the haunted house which quite literally disgusted and freaked the young teen out so bad she opted to just sleep in the car despite her father’s protests. When the group returned to the car the next morning Noodle claimed Marilyn was the only one with common sense in the whole group. Marilyn said it was only because of the horror movies she and 2D watched back on Plastic Beach. During this time one of 2D’s kids asks to meet up with their dad and connect with him. 2D agrees and meets his daughter Sonia. The others are worried about the two meeting up since Murdoc and 2D had such a bad past but Marilyn and Sonia instant take to each other extremely well and become close friends, almost like family and stay in contact throughout the phases.

Phase 5: now 15, Marilyn was very moody during this time. This was around what felt like the 100th time her dad had gotten arrested and she felt upset that he had been “replaced” by Ace. She didn’t talk much to the green man or anyone for that matter and opted to just stay in her room for majority of this time. Others claimed she was a like a “more polite version of her dad” during this time. The only time to group got her to crawl out of her sad little hole was for Humility where 2D taught her how to roller skate. She eventually warmed up to Ace and considered him a friend but she still missed her dad and felt a bit betrayed and lost by the situation. Russel knew she was dealing with her own mental issues at the time and attempted to help comfort her, but it didn’t do much to help. She still appreciated it though. She begged Noodle to let her go with her to get her dad but Noodle refused because it was too dangerous and Russel had to keep her in his sight at almost all times because she tried to set off on her own twice, being as stubborn as Murdoc himself.

Phase 7: Now 18, During the time that Murdoc was rambling on about the occult, Marilyn generally thought he had lost his mind. Or was drunk. While living with her mother during her father’s arrest back in phase 4, Marilyn had taken up Christianity and refused to sway for a cult. Murdoc secretly hated the fact that her religion was literally what his hated, but never forced her or told her to stop believing in it. He felt disappointed she wouldn’t join, claiming “all cults lead to trouble in the end”, but didn’t fight her on it since everyone else was joining anyway. Murdoc wasn’t the only one who found love during this time however. Whereas Murdoc was simping for Moonflower, Marilyn met a girl who lived across the road from them who she later found out was named April. The two became friends and often while her father and family was doing cult stuff, Marilyn would go over to April’s house and hang out with her, trying to fight the fact that she was in love with this girl. Later during the Silent Running video she was with the group fighting off the others but she didn’t know how to fight, so she picked up a broken off pipe from the group and opted to beating them to death with the weapon instead. Oddly enough this worked remarkably well. Murdoc later claimed that it was most likely due to the fact that she had a lot of pent up emotions she was venting out with each swing. Or it was the softball she took as a child. Later in the Cracker Island video she was an emotional wreck for lack of a better term since Russel was out of it, Murdoc was nowhere to be seen, 2D was higher than a kite, and Noodle was constantly trying to call people to help. She didn’t cry or anything, but she sat handcuffed to a chair with a “Distraught and confused look on her face” as claim by 2D. She looked absolutely disgusted when her dad kissed and went on a date with the woman who attempted to sacrifice her uncle and didn’t talk to him for a day or two after that. Before the group left the area however, with the help of Noodle, she asked April out. She nervously dodges the questions if asked if they’re dating or not, seeming embarrassed by the situation.

GOD THAT WAS A LOTTA WRITING my lord if y’all read through that I’m glad I caught your interest! I have posts of her and art of her in my account when she’s in phase 7!! I am planning on drawing the other phases soon! I left out phase six because it wasn’t very important in the grand scheme of things lol. Let me know your opinion!! Thanks! -Izzy

[underscoredinnisg]

i dont have any new asks so here is some of my favourite Gorillaz headcannons of mine!

these are all early phases

2D

-He used to be able to cook, but after all the head injuries and the fact that his eyes are all kind of messed up, he kinda sucks at it now

-he has a very weird taste in food, but its also oddly specific taste

-this man swear a LOT but refuses to infront of noodle

-he taught himself how to whistle with his missing front teeth

-bro does not sleep much at night but during the day hes passed out from 9am-3pm, dont try to wake him hes dead to the world

-he used to take a lot more pills and smoke more but when noodle showed up he stopped smoking and taking as many (he still does a lot)

-acts like an older brother to Noodle

-hes bi you cant tell me different

Russle

-When he first saw noodle he melted (internally)

-he made noodle a stuffed animal (not taxidermy) when she first arrived

-whenever Murdoc is being a dick he just- picks him up by the back of his shirt like a sad cat

-hes the main one that takes care of noodle, she called him dad once and he almost cried from being so happy

-he makes money off the side with his taxidermy sculptures

-hes like an amazing cook, the man makes instant ramen taste gourmet

-ace and aro for real, the only person he every felt connected to like that was Del but even then it was more "i want to live with you platonically"

Noodle

-Shes EXTREMELY energetic, like bouncing off the walls energetic

-she copies everything that the boys say and do, EVERYTHING

-she randomly bursts into rooms and causes chaos to get attention

-her and 2D play a lot of video games together, 2D showed her zombie games and she makes him play dress up just to torture him

-russle wore a pink dress for a tea party once

-murdoc taught her how to arm wrestle (Noodle wins everytime)

-when she turned 12 she asked russle if her legal last name could be Hobbs like his, he agreed and now shes legally Russle Hobbs

Murdoc

-at first all he cared about with Noodle was her guitar skills

-pretty quick he grew attached to her, he felt like an uncle for her

-the first thing he taught he was swear words

-after the Dare video, murdoc started going out with a few guys every now and then

-murdoc says he doesnt like playing fighting games with the group but he secretly does

[jacksope-lives]

If ur still doing kiss prompts maybe 30 or 31 for 2russ?

Your wish is my command!

31. ...as comfort

Life had settled down, at least for the time being. There’d been a plan concocted by Murdoc to get the band out of LA for a while using some fake passports, but when that had fallen through the Gorillaz found themselves, as they often did, waiting for the other shoe to drop. In the meantime at least the group decided to get more into some hobbies. Russel had returned to his taxidermy work, but he’d also decided to get really good at card games. His reasoning was simple: back when he’d worked with his uncle, he could never beat him. 

Now that Russel was much older and those days were long gone, he figured he didn’t have much to do but bide his time, and what a better way to bide said time than to pick up the pass time. Of course, that meant Russel would have to practice his skills, and considering Noodle refused to play with him, and he didn’t want to play with 2D for…other reasons, he was stuck battling against Murdoc. He was doing really well, which was actually a bad thing, considering how big of a sore loser the man was.

“You’re a bloody cheater!” Murdoc yelled as he threw his cards down on the table, seemingly quitting. Russel resented that accusation heavily, considering who it was coming from. “And Noodle’s probably fudging the score,” he added, gesturing to Noodle, who’d been observing the game and tallying wins. So far it was fifty-four for Russel and one for Murdoc.

“Come on, man, I’ve been watching you shove cards down your pants this entire game. Not mention leaning over to look at mine,” Russel explained and Murdoc simply grumbled that it was different and, short of flipping the table, simply walked off in a huff. “You sure you don’t want to play with me?” Russel asked Noodle, and she simply shook her head as she erased the board she’d been tallying on.

“Part of life is avoiding the battles you can’t win,” she assessed, and Russel took it as a compliment of his playing. At that, moment, 2D walked in the room, and suddenly Russel felt the urge to shut down the entire game. 2D, his sweet, silly, absolutely adorable boyfriend, was horrible at card games. And moreover, Russel just couldn’t bear to see him upset after a loss, even if he did his best to conceal it. Unfortunately, his plan failed, and 2D asked what he’d been dreading.

“Are you playing card games? Can I play?” he asked with an excited tone in his voice. He remembered he’d once compared 2D to a golden retriever, and he felt that comparison was apt. His soft, fluffy blue hair and wide white eyes always gave Russel the urge to ruffle his hair, and made it impossible to say no to him. So, Russel nodded, giving 2D a head pat before the other man sat down across from him. Noodle began keeping score and the game began. It went about as predictably as possible.

2D took a long time to decide what he wanted to play, and when he did, it was always something easily counter by Russel. And whenever he lost, he’d get this little frustrated look in his eyes before insisting that they play again. Eventually, Russel couldn’t take that sad frustration in his face anymore and started losing on purpose. Once that game concluded and Noodle read out the results, Russel expected 2D to be happy. Instead, he was just as upset as before.

“You shouldn’t let me win on purpose,” he assessed, and Russel quickly stuttered out a response, hoping that 2D hadn’t noticed.

“I-I didn’t-” he started before seeing that look on 2D’s face again and relenting. “I’m sorry D, I just thought it would make you feel better,” he offered and 2D shook his head, leaning across the table to plant a gentle kiss on Russel’s lips before giving him that same sweet gap-toothed grin he always did. Russel averted his eyes, embarrassed at having to be placated.

“There, now I feel much better,” 2D assessed as he touched Russel’s face, refocusing his eyes towards him. “And from the looks of it I’d say so do you,” he added, and Russel couldn’t help but chuckle at how bad he had it for his fellow bandmate. Next to them, Noodle seemed to be writing something on the board and when Russel looked, he saw that she’d erased the score and written something else.

“I think this game goes to 2D,” she concluded before getting up and leaving the two alone to kiss some more.

[black-eyedzombie]

Noodle’s like a little sister to you, right? And Murdoc is…Murdoc, so then what’s Russel to you? An uncle or a brother figure?

Russ!! He's a best bud to me- not really an uncle or brother.. but I'm sure if you asked Russ he'd say I'm like a little brother to him cos of how often he's got to look out for me sometimes

[bugslaststraw]

This is true and I love you, BUT! Noodle has more complicated feelings on the matter lore dump under cut thank youu:

I'm all of the opinion that the three men all consider her their daughter at least partially, but having grown up with them she has complicated the matter quite a lot. When asked about her relations to her bandmates during the Now Now, she said that quote "Russel is like an uncle, 2-D is like a brother/pet, and Murdoc I try to think about as little as possible."

Several things of note here. The "try to think about as little as possible" bit, coupled with how Russel is an "uncle" despite generally being the one most responsible for her wellbeing when she was younger (being the only one who wasn't constantly high) tells me that she does see Murdoc as her father above all. But, like, "father" as in "horrible alcoholic father who did nothing for you and whom you hate and love in equal measure." (Although he did do some things for her... notably taught her to drive... wasn't all bad-) In that sense, Russel is a bit like the brother who stepped in to sort things out when the father in question could not. An "uncle." Although he still sees himself as her dad nevertheless.

Then there's the brother/pet, of course. Of course. This one's the most interesting, because Noodle has also stated that 2-D is actually her favourite as well, in several of the Demon Days era interviews with her. In an even earlier one she says they share a "special zen bond" as well. So when she says he's like a brother-slash-pet to her, it's a little... Odd. I recall at some point post-hiatus she also referred to him as an "older/younger brother" which is also super telling.

What that means to me is that, well. Noodle has some problems. Specifically, she's grown up to be very very responsible, even from a young age. She's always trying to solve other people's problems for them, and she has been since Plastic Beach. I think she has this idea in her mind that nobody else can do it but her. And sometimes they can't. Her bandmates are a mess; only barely able to function in the regular world, and she's very competent. Sometimes I get the feeling she's essentially trying to parent her own parents, as it were. Especially 2-D, who, contrary to what might actually be the case, often gives the impression of being kind of stupid and childish; simple, you know? And he's somehow always the victim, always the one person who can't fight back whenever he gets kidnapped by Murdoc or whatever, you know? He's not a fighter (just a lover just a lover just a lover just THE SKY'S FALLIN BABY DROP THAT)

So, maybe she's taken it upon herself to protect him, because he won't do it himself. She doesn't understand why. She honestly probably doesn't understand him all that well, doesn't connect the dots on the Stockholm Syndrome and the reasons why he does what he does. To her he's her little big brother, who carries her home when she gets tired, and whom she needs to protect when her stupid dad gets really drunk.

Although I'm sure 2-D would hate all of this if he knew.

forget shipping, nothing's weirder to me than people in the gorillaz fandom trying to argue that murdoc, russel, and 2d aren't noodle's dads

they legally adopted her at 8 years old, and when you look at the early interviews they All treat her like the child she was (talking about her bedtime, trying not to swear in front of her, taking care of her, yes even murdoc).

and when they thought they lost her the band literally imploded. 2d moved to an entirely different country to try to find himself, murdoc went on a self destructive bender that ended with him secluding himself in the literal middle of the ocean (as far away from civilization as possible) and creating a cyborg replica of her, and russel threw himself off a dock (only surviving because he's a cartoon character) and literally carrying her on his back across the ocean after he found her alive.

yes The Characters don't tend to label their relationships traditionally, but they Are her parents Objectively, and it's weird to try to pretend otherwise.

[reactivatedcyborg]

Do you consider Murdoc as a father figure or more of an uncle?

:it's very hard to describe.

:i mean, he built me, and all. and then i just served as his bodyguard and did whatever he asked. i played the guitar for his songs, got him alcohol when he needed it, shot at anything considered a threat, and stayed out of the way if there was no need for me.

..

:so for a while, i saw him as my boss. my commander. my superior.

:however... there were times i saw him as uncle figure, of some sorts. i'm not just a robot, i'm a clone. i do have some of noodle's memories. i remember having a bedtime, and staying up late, and watching zombie films and whatnot. it's like a childhood i never actually lived through.

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:and it didn't happen to me, and i'm not noodle. there's no reason for me to feel that way.

[it-is-i-zim]

uhhhm… so…

Phase One: Celebrity Take Down (1998–2002)

This phase one plot summary is adapted from Rise of the Ogre, phase one interviews, The Apex Tapes, music videos and the phase one Kong Studios website.

The story of Gorillaz begins on the 15th of August 1997. Stuart Pot was a mentally deficient keyboard enthusiast and part-time employee at Uncle Norm's Organ Emporium. Satanist hoodlum Murdoc Niccals decided to ram-raid Uncle Norm's Organ Emporium to procure synthesizer equipment in order to establish a "chart-topping" musical group. However, Murdoc ended up driving his Vauxhall Astra through the building and directly into Stu-Pot's head, permanently damaging ("fracturing") Stu-Pot's left eye and putting him into a catatonic state. Murdoc was sentenced to "30,000 hours of community service, plus 10 hours every week of caring for the injured Stu-Pot". Not long after, Murdoc again injured Stu-Pot in a car accident in Nottingham's Tesco car park when attempting a 360° in order to impress some women. During the initial rotation, he was thrown through the windshield and landed face-first on a curb. This permanently damaged Stu-Pot's right eye but revived him from his coma. Impressed by Stu-Pot’s new look, Murdoc then recruited the newly recovered (albeit still mentally defective) Stu-Pot as the keyboardist and vocalist for his group, re-dubbing him 2-D for the matching pair of dents in his head from the accidents.

In September of 1997, Murdoc acquired the property of the Khong Mansion, a sprawling haunted studio with a rather shady history, on a website named 'Gigantic Disused Haunted Studios In The Middle Of No-Where'. The mansion was situated atop a hill in the midst of a run-down cemetery and landfill in Districtshire, Essex. Shortly after, he renamed the building and Gorillaz' new headquarters to 'Kong Studios'.

Murdoc then found a drummer for the group in a Soho record store: an African-American expatriate Russel Hobbs. Russel was a middle-class New York native and was deeply troubled as a youth. He was expelled from an expensive private school for suffering from demonic possession. The trauma of said possession resulted in a four-year coma from which Russel was roused only by an elaborately executed exorcism. After his recovery, Russel began attending Brooklyn High School, where he quickly cultivated friendships with a group of rappers, DJs, MCs, and street musicians. He has said that "hip-hop saved [his] soul."

This was a short-lived respite, however, as all of Russel's newfound friends were suddenly gunned down one night in a drive-by shooting. Russel, the sole survivor, became the unwilling receptacle for the spirits of all of his slain compatriots, most notable of whom was the rhyme-dropping blue phantom, Del. With their latent possession of his body, Russel gained incredible musical prowess in percussion, rap, and hip-hop as well as a disturbing side-effect: his eyes glowed an eerie white. With this new and violent turn of events, Russel's family shipped him off to England to live with his uncle in Belsize Park in hopes of helping him recover from his traumas quietly - not realizing they'd put him directly into the path of Murdoc's aspirations to superstardom, and the excesses that came along with it.

2-D, Murdoc, Russel, Paula and a gorilla that plays the bongos Russel got a part-time job working in a Soho record store, called "Big Rick Black's Record Shack", where he met Murdoc Niccals. When Murdoc asked for an obscure 50s record, he slipped a bag over Russel's head and took him to Kong Studios. Russel was impressed by the demos that 2-D and Murdoc had produced and he chose to stay there, despite having been kidnapped. At that point, all the fledgling group needed was a guitarist. The band decided to draft in 2-D's girlfriend at the time, Paula Cracker, to play the guitar. With that, the early working group, Gorilla, was formed (other names were also considered, such as Satan's Scrotum, Thor's Raw, Number Of The Beats, Meatus and Asterix, but ‘Gorilla’ was the chosen one).

One night, in the depths of Kong Studios, Russel awoke to find Murdoc and Paula having an affair in cubicle #3 of the Kong bathrooms. Disgusted by this, Russel broke Murdoc's nose five times (though Murdoc's nose had also been previous broken many times before this occasion). Like so many British bands before them, the trio placed an advertisement in NME in search of a guitarist. The same day the ad ran, a FedEx freight container from Japan was delivered to their doorstep and out jumped a mysterious amnesiac 7-year-old wielding a Gibson Les Paul guitar. The tiny girl made an incomprehensible introduction in Japanese and tore into a "riff to end all riffs", as described by Murdoc, which ended with an impressive karate kick to the air. She then bowed, and spoke a single word in English to the stunned boys, which became her moniker: "Noodle". By April 1998, the band was finally assembled, changing their name from Gorilla to Gorillaz via Noodle's recommendation. Their first song was called Ghost Train and was recorded at Kong Studios. Murdoc posted a copy of the song, some photos of the band and a manifesto over to Mr. Whiffy Smithy at EMI.

On the 5th of November 1998, Gorillaz played their first show at the Camden Brownhouse which ended prematurely due to a riot during their song Punk. EMI A&R man Whiffy Smiffy discharged several rounds from a shotgun to disperse the crowd enough to make his way to the stage and quickly signed them to the label. The following evening, Gorillaz attended their record label signing party. The band was gifted a seven-foot cheque, and also met a long-time collaborator, Damon Albarn. Damon would go on to be an influential part of the band, serving as a vocal coach for 2-D. However, Murdoc was and still is very jealous of Damon and frequently attempts to poison him and steal his demos.

In December 1998, the band began the recording sessions for their debut album, spending the entirety of 1999 recording in Kong. After a year's worth of recordings, the band felt as though there was something missing from the album, so they decided to draft in Dan The Automator as producer to help provide extras. One of the songs which were being recorded for the band’s debut album was Clint Eastwood. Initially, the song featured vocals by Murdoc, described by the band as “grating, colourless and atonal”. Dan suggested that the song could be improved by replacing his vocals with a rap section, something that not only the band agreed with but that seemed to trigger a ghostly summoning: the ghost of Del, one of Russel’s friends killed in the drive-by shooting, emerged from his body as he went into a brief coma while delivering the rap verses for the song, shocking everyone around including Russel himself.

After that, Dan made the decision to move the album recordings over to the sun-kissed beaches of Jamaica. From April to May 2000, the band recorded the final tracks in Jamaica, before production on the album finally finished in June 2000.

2-D and Murdoc in Jamaica: May 2000 Upon returning to Kong after the completion of the album, the band began making plans for their first music video. The band initially sourced Italian director Paulo Skinbacio to direct the music video for the song Tomorrow Comes Today. The truth is, however, Skinbacio had never been on a film shoot in his life. The music video for the song premiered in a garbage bin outside the music label office. The band decided to fire Skinbacio, which led to him threatening the group in German. Now in need of another director, Damon Albarn suggested his old troublemaker flatmate Jamie Hewlett. Jamie was brought to Kong, and agreed to direct the video. He would later become a hugely influential part of Gorillaz, going on to direct and assist the band's entire videography.

Gorillaz made their public debut with the Tomorrow Comes Today EP and the music video for the song on the 27th of November 2000. Next year, on the 5th of March 2001, Gorillaz released their debut single, Clint Eastwood, featuring Del the Ghost Rapper. The song and its accompanying video became a smash hit and would go on to give Gorillaz the push towards mainstream popularity.

On the 22nd of March 2001, Gorillaz performed their second-ever gig at the London Scala. The gig was televised live on MTV, and was available for rewatch on the band's website.

Gorillaz (2001) On the 26th of March 2001, Gorillaz’ self-titled debut album released to the public. The album was a huge success, charting at Nº3 on the UK albums chart, and Nº14 on the US Billboard 200, going on to sell 7 million copies worldwide. Everyone was celebrating the release of the album, except for Murdoc, whose prized Winnebago was stolen the same day as the album's release. Someone over at EMI had given away the Winnebago keys along with a copy of the album. The person in question who got ahold of the keys was a man named Dr. Wurzel, who started a GeoCities page where he would post photos of his many adventures with Murdoc's mobile home. An online craze began on the Gorillaz website, with Murdoc initiating a competition for fans to find his Winnebago. During this time, Dr. Wurzel leaked Gorillaz’ first track, Ghost Train, and a picture of the band when Paula was still a guitarist. At some point in late 2001, Murdoc (or the authorities) apprehended the crazed doctor and returned the Winnebago to its rightful home in the Kong Studios Carpark.

In the Spring of 2001, the band began recording a music video for the track 5/4, but this was later scrapped in favour of a music video for the track 19-2000, which later released on the 25th of June 2001.

Murdoc and Noodle in Japan: August 2001 In August 2001, Gorillaz decided to tour Japan. However, this lead to Noodle beginning to have melancholic feelings and thoughts, not knowing about her past and feeling isolated from her homeland. It was also during this time when Noodle began to suffer from nightmares regarding her forgotten past. Russel decided to buy her a jetpack to cheer her up. In the Fall of the same year, the band embarked on a tour of Europe. Not long after the tour, the band released their 3rd single and the final music video of their debut album, Rock the House.

Back at the Japan tour, Gorillaz noted that their popularity there wasn't as big as it was in other parts of the world. To attempt to boost their album sales and popularity, the band came up with G-Sides, a compilation album that consisted of bonus tracks, b-sides, and remixes from the band's singles off their debut album. This had the desired effect, as G-Sides was released later that December, and went on to sell half a million copies worldwide.

G-Sides (2001) On the 11th of September 2001, due to the collapse of the twin towers and closed airports, rap group D12 were left stranded in London. Gorillaz allowed the group to stay at Kong Studios for the time being, during which the singçe 911 was born, serving as a response to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. The song would later feature contributions from The Specials frontman, Terry Hall. The song was released as a downloadable single later that winter on both Gorillaz and D12's websites.

In Christmas 2001, Gorillaz released a series of little shorts known as G-Bitez which allowed fans to gain an insight into how the band members lived off-screen. On the 20th of February 2002, Gorillaz performed at the BRIT Awards with hip hop group Phi-Life Cypher, where they were nominated for 6 Awards but won nothing.

From 23rd February 2002 to 11th March 2002, Gorillaz embarked on an 11-month tour of North America. The tour was met with issues from the beginning, as Murdoc was arrested as soon as the band arrived in America, due to an incident in Nebraska 15 years ago. Murdoc made it on stage just in time after paying the $500,000 bail. During this tour, Noodle began suffering from nightmares again, which led to her losing much sleep. The band passed this off as a feeling of road fatigue and touring at a young age.

On the 25th of February 2002, the band released the final single of their debut album, which was a single re-release of "Tomorrow Comes Today", with two new B-side tracks instead of the previous ones.

The tour was going pretty well for a while, until the disastrous show in Mexico on the 11th of March 2002. The desks and monitors malfunctioned during the soundcheck due to the switch in voltage levels, 2-D had eaten a spicy Mexican burrito the night before and had diarrhoea, Murdoc whacked a fan who had jumped on stage on the head with his bass, Russel had a heart attack mid-show and needed vitamin injections, Noodle was on a trigger due to no sleep, one of Siegfried & Roy's tigers got drunk and stole a motorcycle, some threw a horse lung onto the stage and to top it all off, a giant inflatable gorilla head crushed several kids, who had to wait 48 hours before they could be set free.

Gorillaz Vs. Spacemonkeyz: July 2002 After the end of the tour, Gorillaz took a six-month break in L.A. on the 13th of March. There they attempted to get a movie project off the ground. The band played their last gig together at the Isle of MTV Festival in Portugal on the 20th of July. At the end of the gig, a fan asked Murdoc to sign a CD for him, the CD in question being a release from a group associated with Gorillaz that he didn't even know of: these were the Spacemonkeyz - three chimps, who have tested lab monkeys that were sent up to space. Upon arriving back to Earth, the chimps stumbled upon Kong Studios, after 2-D had accidentally left the studio front doors open before the band left for the tour, which allowed the Spacemonkeyz to break in, and steal the master tapes for the band's album. The Spacemonkeyz created the reworkings album Laika Come Home which was released on the 1st of July 2002.

After the tour ended, Gorillaz tried to create a movie, but everyone was too concentrated on doing drugs and hanging out with celebrities. Murdoc almost got a TV show, but they replaced him at the last minute. During the film's production, the band worked with director Alfred C. Klinker, who kept changing the script every day, this led to the band eventually firing Klinker, and deciding to check into a Hollywood motel to write the film themselves in August 2002. However, this did not work, as constant fights broke out between the band members, and a sense of distrust was grown among everybody. Alas, the film was not meant to be, due in part to extensive over-partying, in-fighting, and disagreements with producers, directors, and a notable incident of Murdoc getting himself banned from the Playboy Mansion for stealing ashtrays. It all came to a head when one fight led to Murdoc attempting to strangle 2-D to death. Russel and Noodle broke up the fight, but Murdoc, finally sick of it all, walked out of the motel, and ended Gorillaz there and then.

Phase Two: Slowboat to Hades (2004–2008)

Murdoc in Jail: October 2002 This phase two plot summary is adapted from Rise of the Ogre, phase two interviews, We Are The Dury, music videos, and the phase two Kong Studios website.

After attempting to kill 2-D and leaving Gorillaz, Murdoc headed off to Mexico to get some sun and relax. However, after using fake dud cheques at a brothel, Murdoc was arrested and sentenced to thirty years at La Mesa State Prison on the 31st of October 2002. During this time, Murdoc met cellmates who taught him a bit of black magic, and acquired himself a pet raven named Cortez.

Meanwhile, that same evening, Kong Studios had been shut down tight in its owner's absence by local law enforcement, after an unknown man was seen running, naked and in hysterics, in the marshes near the studio. The police proceeded to keep the area secured while they investigated the strange paranormal events surrounding Kong.

After Murdoc, the next band member to leave was Noodle. Noodle went back to Japan in a fruitful attempt to uncover the secrets of her own past after suffering from nightmares and visions on the Gorillaz Tour. Noodle left for Japan on the 1st of October 2002, where she checked into a capsule hotel and began her search.

2-D working at his father's funfair: December 2002 2-D was the next one to leave. He headed out into the world of L.A., rubbing elbows with Brian Setzer, joining The Viper Room Club, and moving into an apartment flat with actress Britt Ekland. However, after Britt spent every night banging on the walls and building a wicker statue, and getting sick of the Los Angeles lifestyle, 2-D decided to go back to Eastbourne and work at his father's funfair. 2-D returned to England on November 25th 2002. It was during this time that 2-D's ego got a significant boost and he re-established his grip on reality, coming to terms with his newfound pop icon status with the ladies. He also began a friendship with Shane Lynch from Boyzone. 2-D also began to grow a resentment for Murdoc, breaking free of adoring his abuser.

Russel remained in L.A. for some time but became increasingly haunted by The Grim Reaper, who eventually banished Del from his body. Luckily, Russel was approached by Ike Turner who offered him sanctuary in his basement to recover from this experience.

Noodle and Mike The Monkey return to Kong Studios: October 2003 After a year of searching in Japan, Noodle was close to giving up on her search, she decided to head down to a sushi bar in downtown Hong Kong, to eat in woe. While she was there a waiter called for an order of "Ocean Bacon" and all of Noodle's memories came flooding back. she was reunited with her mentor, Mr. Kyuzo who was working as a chef at the establishment and learned that she was part of a secret government super soldier project and could speak English fluently. Noodle was the only survivor after the project was scrapped. Mr. Kyuzo erased Noodle's memory using the words, "Ocean Bacon" and sent her off to England in the FedEx crate. Armed with her newfound knowledge and iron resolve, Noodle decided to return to Kong Studios. on October 27th 2003, Noodle returned to Kong and discovered that the building had fallen into a state of disrepair during the band's absence. She also discovered that the building was invested by zombies and monster-infested darkness. Using the Kong security room as a safe house Noodle slowly cleaned the building of its unwanted inhabitants. Now knowing English, Noodle began to soak up what was playing on her TV in the security room and discovered society was being fed manufactured shit. It was here that Noodle began writing and putting together the concepts of the band's sophomore album Demon Days.

While Noodle was clearing Kong, Russel was still recovering in Ike Turner's basement, it was here that Russel began recording demos for a solo hip-hop album. However, after seeing hallucinations of demons flying out the speakers, Russel decided to bury the demo tapes, believing that they were causing several world problems.

Russel in Ike Turner's basement: January 2004 Finally, in February 2004, Noodle finally cleared Kong of the undead and began contacting her bandmates, but Murdoc was still in prison. After spending a year in jail, his patience began wearing thin and he teamed up with his cellmates and escaped from La Mesa State. He returned to the Chicken Choker brothel, to commit the same crime he did before, then headed over to the airport and flew back to England.

Noodle texted her bandmates, and on the 3rd of March 2004, 2-D, Murdoc, and Russel returned to Kong Studios. Gorillaz was together again. The band caught each other up on what they had been up to before Noodle unveiled her “Demon Days” project. Recording for the album began the next day.

Noodle drafted in Damon, and producer Danger Mouse to help out with the record. The main story of Demon Days was to depict a post-9/11 world, with each track dealing with a different topic/demon. Noodle also set out to make the album prove that Gorillaz was more than a marketing ploy gimmick, as many critics accused Gorillaz in regards to their last album. Recordings were completed in November 2004. A month later on the 12th of December 2004, Gorillaz announced their comeback with the release of a new music video for a new song called Rockit. Along with this was Noodle setting up the "Search For A Star" contest. A competition in which fans could submit themselves doing a talent, and submit said video or piece of artwork to the Gorillaz website. The band also launched the Reject False Icons campaign, which encouraged fans to reject false celebrity icons. The cherry on top of all of this was a complete renovation to Kong Studios, new rooms and new minigames for fans to explore and interact with.

Gorillaz reunite: March 2004 On the 9th of May 2005, Gorillaz released the lead single and music video off their Demon Days album Feel Good Inc. featuring hip hop trio De La Soul. The song and video were a huge success. Once more bringing Gorillaz mainstream, charting increasingly well, and properly replacing Clint Eastwood as Gorillaz’ signature tune.

On the 11th of May 2005, the Demon Days album was released in Japan. It received critical acclaim, topped many charts, sold millions of copies, and was listed on various publications' lists of the best albums both of 2005 and 2000s in general. In order to promote the album in the US, the band came up with the idea for the Demon Detour; a series of live radio shows across many major cities and radio stations without the need for big screens or concert promoters. The band some of their guests from the album booked at Sarm West Studios to rehearse the songs and record them for quality control, which became known as the Sarm Studios Session.

Like always, however, issues immediately began; when they arrived at Sarm, they started to receive "odd phone calls, disturbing messages and eventually blatant death threats", and while on the Demon Detour the band's tour bus was being shot at consistently every night. The band tried putting together who was shooting at them, suspects included Paula Cracker, Paulo Skinbacio, Alfred C. Klinker, Dr. Wurzel and Noodle's Japanese Government bosses. To keep his mind stable, Russel began experimenting with taxidermy during this time. Eventually, the band started getting sick of being shot at every night (as anyone probably would), Mand urdoc decided to take things into his own hands, asking the tour manager Jimmy Manson to see what he could do about the shootings. The next night, the shootings stopped, and the tour continued as usual.

After the Demon Detour, the band returned to Kong, where Noodle hatched secret plans for the 2nd Demon Days music video. Noodle recorded the DARE music video, without letting any of the other band members know. The single and video were later released on the 29th of August 2005, reaching No.1 on the UK Singles Chart, being the only Gorillaz single to do so at the time.

Later that same summer, Gorillaz headed off to NamibW desert to record the music video for the song Dirty Harry featuring Bootie Brown. The single and video were later released on the 21st of November 2005.

Gorillaz and Damon's live band: November 2005 After the Dirty Harry shoot, the band returned to Kong, tired and double booked. The band was set to perform at the MTV EMA's, while also set to perform a five-night concert at the Manchester Opera House. To fix this dilemma, the band drafted Damon and the Demon Days collaborators to perform the album live. From 1st - 5th November 2005, Damon and his live band performed the Demon Days album live at the Manchester Opera House. The band attended these gigs in the audience for the first show, before heading over to Lisbon to perform "Feel Good Inc." at the MTV EMA's.

Later that Christmas, MTV Cribs released an episode where they receive a tour of Kong Studios from Murdoc Niccals. Murdoc also delivered the Queen's speech that Christmas Day.

On the 8th of February 2006, the band headed back over to America to perform Feel Good Inc. at the Grammy's. After the award show, an after-party was held at Dennis Hopper's place, in which Murdoc got into a drunken fight with ex-Archies member, Jughead Jones, who claimed Gorillaz was a rip-off of his band.

On the 15th of February 2006, Gorillaz performed Dirty Harry at the BRIT Awards featuring a large children's choir and guest star, Bootie Brown.

Setting up for El Mañana: March 2006 Following the BRIT Awards, plans began to be made for the final Demon Days music video. Murdoc received contacts from The Demon Detour tour manager Jimmy Manson, who revelated he had been following Gorillaz for a while. He initially tried out for the guitarist role but was rejected upon Noodle's arrival, he stalked the band for some time during their time in Hollywood in 2002, and finally got a gig as the tour manager for The Demon Detour. Manson revealed that he was the one behind the shootings and he pitched an idea to kill Gorillaz and cash in on their success. Murdoc agreed to this and came up with an idea for the music video for the song El Mañana. Murdoc pitched the idea to Gorillaz and Jamie; in the video, Noodle would be on the flying windmill island from Feel Good Inc. and the island would be shot down by helicopters, however Noodle would have a parachute and the helicopters would have fake bullets. The rest of the band was a bit reluctant to this idea but ultimately gave in, especially Noodle, who wanted to take a break from Gorillaz and had already packed all her stuff up in her room. She planned to leave straight after the filming of the El Mañana video shoot. Murdoc and Jimmy hatched the plan, in which Manson would hide out inside the windmill tower with guns, and come out and shoot Noodle.

On the 7th of March 2006, Gorillaz started the shoot for El Mañana which starred Noodle on windmill island. Halfway through the video, the island was shot down and exploded as planned. However, after the video's shoot, Noodle was nowhere to be found, leaving behind a used parachute, and panic exploded on set. Manson had never come out and shot Noodle. This was because Murdoc had actually double-crossed Manson, by locking him inside the windmill, with the guns. The island crashes, with Jimmy Manson perishing along with it. In an attempt to calm fans and save face, Murdoc lied and said that Noodle had escaped by parachute and was chilling out in the Maldives. In reality, Noodle was missing and supposedly dead. Murdoc noted that the copters that shot down the island, were not the same fake copters from "Feel Good Inc." but were actually real helicopters that came and shot down the island, meaning that Noodle was being shot down with real bullets in the video and was not acting. The El Mañana single and music video were later released alongside Kids With Guns on the 10th of April 2006. Following Noodle's disappearance, Kong began falling into a state of disrepair once more, as if her presence was the only thing keeping the building alive.

Murdoc alone in Kong: October 2006 Shortly after the video's shoot, Damon and the live band once more performed a residency of five shows at New York's Harlem Apollo from 2nd April - 6th April 2006. 2-D and Murdoc attended these gigs in the audience. After the Apollo gigs, 2-D and Russel left the group, while Murdoc stayed behind by himself in the crumpling building of Kong Studios. 2-D headed off to Jamaica for a vacation, and then went to Oxford to get a degree from law school, while Russel returned to his hometown of Brooklyn. Later that year, on the 26th of October 2006, Gorillaz released their autobiography Rise Of The Ogre, and in the same day as the book's release an emergency transmission from Noodle was received in the Brain Room at the ruins of Kong Studios. Murdoc discovered that the coordinates of the transmission were being transmitted from the "depths of hell". Murdoc attempted to travel through the bowels of hell in order to bring her back but failed. Following the rescue attempt, Murdoc put Kong Studios up for sale and headed off on a bender around the world. During this time, Murdoc released another compilation album, D-Sides. Similarly to G-Sides, D-Sides consisted of bonus tracks, b-sides, and remixes of the singles from Demon Days, but consisted of significantly more material. The album was released on the 19th of November 2007 and performed similarly to G-Sides. Not long after D-Sides, director Ceri Levy was preparing on releasing a Gorillaz documentary titled "Bananaz". The documentary was about the making of Gorillaz's first two albums from the perspective of Damon and Jamie. The documentary premiered in Berlin on the 7th of February 2008. Murdoc responded to the documentary via a drunken threatening voice message to Ceri. An online war began between Murdoc and Ceri, which resulted in Ceri leaking an audio tape of Murdoc having sex with an unknown woman. Murdoc called off the war following the leak.

Phase Three: Escape To Plastic Beach (2008–2013) This phase three plot summary is adapted from music videos, animated shorts, Murdoc's Pirate Radio show, social media content, phase three interviews, the Plastic Beach adventure game, the Escape to Plastic Beach World Tour and the We Are Ten Radio Show.

The run-down Kong Studios Following his bender, Murdoc began to run low on money, so on the 25th of July 2008, Murdoc burned down the ruins of Kong Studios, cashed in on the insurance money and blamed the fire on some kids. He then attended the Monkey: Journey To The West opera as an alibi. Following the opera show, Murdoc fled the country. He also mentioned that part of the reason for the move was to flee from a deadly underground network of pirates simply referred to as 'The Black Clouds', who were out to kill him after their business deal went south. Though this isn't the first time the Black Clouds have interacted with Gorillaz. As the Black Clouds had done business with Murdoc before, which also went south. This led to the Black Clouds being the copters that actually shot down Noodle in El Mañana.

While searching the world for a new hideout, Murdoc discovered an island located in the middle of the ocean, specifically at Point NemoW, made entirely out of landfill stuck together. He sprayed the island bright pink and used the insurance money to build a new Gorillaz HQ on top, renaming the island to 'Plastic Beach'. According to the pelican at the entrance of the building in the Plastic Beach adventure game, Plastic Beach is at the farthest point from any other landmass in the world, dubbed "Point Nemo". After finding the island, he shipped a lot of the band's belongings to Plastic Beach, their new home and recording studio. While residing on the island, Murdoc began writing and putting together the concepts for the third Gorillaz studio album Plastic Beach, but he had to first reassemble his bandmates.

Murdoc said he tried to recover clues to Noodle's whereabouts from the wreckage of the windmill from "El Mañana", but the most he could obtain was a DNA sample. He later used her DNA to create a violent cyborg version of Noodle, who acts as his bodyguard. Cyborg Noodle doesn't speak, but is adept at firearms and replaces Noodle as the band's guitarist.

2-D wakes up on Plastic Beach After failing to get a degree in law, 2-D left Oxford and headed off to Beirut to live by himself. 2-D was gassed, kidnapped on his Beruit retreat, and taken to Plastic Beach in a suitcase as shown in 2-D's Plastic Beach Ident short. While the short seemingly reveals the Boogieman (the embodiment of all worldly evil who was sent by Satan to claim Murdoc's soul), as his kidnapper, 2-D believes Murdoc was the one who kidnapped him. 2-D was held at Plastic Beach against his will by Murdoc, who forces him to assist in the making of the next Gorillaz album. 2-D fell under strong depression during this stage in his life, being held captive and constantly abused by Murdoc and Cyborg Noodle, being watched by his biggest fear - a whale, missing his bandmates and being forced to withdraw from painkillers.

Russel's note Initially, little was known about the fate of Russel. Following his return to Brooklyn, Murdoc mentioned he had essentially dropped off the face of the Earth. Murdoc mentions that he used a drum machine built from all of Russel's equipment to provide percussion for his album. Finally, Russel's Plastic Beach Ident short hit the website, showing him stomping down a fishing dock in a barely suppressed rage and jumping off the end into the ocean, possibly attempting suicide as shown from a letter he left behind. Following his attempt, Russel let his body float out to sea. During this time, Russel ingested so much pollution, trash and toxic waste that he was transformed into a giant as tall as all of Plastic Beach, making a reference to Gulliver's Travels. Russel's situation reinforces the idea of human excess destroying nature already present in the album.

Murdoc and 2-D proceed to make their way to Plastic Beach via a road trip to the ocean in a 1969 Camaro SS (dubbed 'Stylo'). Murdoc and 2-D are attacked by Bruce Willis, driving a 1968 Chevrolet El Camino. Cyborg Noodle is rendered useless due to a bullet through her head, and Willis opens fire on the two, resulting in a car chase that makes up the Stylo music video. Murdoc drives them off a cliff into the ocean, and the car transforms into a shark-shaped submarine. The car chase was recorded on film by Murdoc's personal camera crew and was edited to make the music video for the Stylo single which was later released on the 26th of January 2010. A month later, on the 25th of February, the band released Superfast Jellyfish, the second single from their new record featuring De La Soul once again along with Gruff Rhys and the song White Flag with Bashy, Kano and The Syrian National Orchestra For Arabic Music two days later. The visual accompaniment for Superfast Jellyfish was released on the 8th of March 2010, but despite the song being already out it was technically only made a single on the 9th of May of the same year.

The Plastic Beach album was released on the 3rd of March 2010. The album received critical acclaim from critics. Various publications listed it as one of the best albums of 2010 and the 2010s in general. Despite the cult following, however, the album did not sell well or chart high upon its initial release.

The Boogieman moments before taking several bullets through his cape from Cyborg Noodle's rifle. In the music video for On Melancholy Hill, Noodle is revealed to be alive and in hiding. She is seen escaping a cruise ship that is under attack by the Black Clouds. Meanwhile, Murdoc, 2-D and the newly recovered Cyborg Noodle, along with all the Plastic Beach collaborators, make their way to Point Nemo together, travelling side by side in an armada of underwater vehicles. Upon arriving in a thick fog, Murdoc sights the Boogieman and orders his Cyborg bodyguard to open fire. The Boogieman escapes, leaving the fog to dissipate and reveal Plastic Beach. While drifting off in the sea, Russel finds the sea-stranded Noodle and rescues her, and together they continue on to be reunited with the rest of the band. the music video and single for On Melancholy Hill later released on the 12th of June 2010. Although initially underperforming, the song would later go on to be another one of Gorillaz' most famous tunes, behind Clint Eastwood and Feel Good Inc.

000whentheemptiness.jpg On the 21st of November, Gorillaz released a new single called Doncamatic featuring Daley. The music video for the single featured Daley piloting a one-man submarine through the depths of the ocean on his way to Plastic Beach.

From 3rd October to 21st December 2010, Gorillaz set off on their first world tour; "The Escape to Plastic Beach World Tour". Unfortunately, Murdoc, 2-D and Cyborg Noodle spent the entire tour locked in the dressing room while a Gorillaz "live band" took over the stage.[1][2] Murdoc suspected that, when he refused to give his soul to Satan for making Gorillaz successful, he kept the real Gorillaz out of the shows and gave the glory to the Gorillaz live band. The live band consisted of Damon Albarn and half of The Clash.[3]

During the American leg of the tour, 2-D had been working on a new collection of Gorillaz music on his iPad. He had been experimenting with new sounds and apps in various locations during the tour, including his hotel room, backstage in the dressing rooms, and in the back of the tour bus.[4] This collection of new music would become the band's fourth studio album The Fall. It was released on Christmas Day in 2010 to stream for free on the band's website, as well as a download for members of the Sub-Division fan campaign. The album was given an official release on the 18th of April 2011. The only single off the album was a double-sided single featuring the songs Revolving Doors and Amarillo.

Upon return to Plastic Beach at the end of the tour, Murdoc broadcasts the fifth episode of his "Pirate Radio" series, alerting the Black Clouds to his whereabouts once more. This leads to the island being attacked a second time.

Gorillaz reunited The storyboard film for Rhinestone Eyes reveals that the Boogieman has a grudge against Murdoc due to a deal they made and that the Boogieman is the fifth rejected Horseman of Apocalypse, named "Flatulence". In the video, we see the Boogieman summon the Gorillaz "live band" who are revealed to have been part of the Black Clouds the whole time.

More Black Clouds raid Plastic Beach in planes similar to the ones that attacked Noodle, in an attempt at Murdoc's life. The album's collaborators, along with Cyborg Noodle, arm themselves with guns and retaliate, while Murdoc hides for fear of his own safety. 2-D, who is deathly afraid of whales, is frightened senseless when a whale nearly rams the underside of the island during the battle. However, just as it closes its jaws around the underwater window of 2-D's room, Russel appears and hurls the whale into an enemy plane, destroying it. Russel then leans onto the Beach and opens his mouth, revealing the real Noodle. Noodle then takes off her mask, revealing scars around her eye. After the events of the video, all four band members evacuated the island immediately.

It was later revealed that Murdoc hired an imposter known as The Imposter Murdoc to take his place on the island while he made his escape in an attempt to trick the Boogieman into collecting the wrong soul. Once the Boogieman had collected the soul of the Imposter Murdoc, the debt was fulfilled and the grudge between the two was set aside.[5]

Original/Retconned Ending

While escaping from Plastic Beach, Murdoc was caught up in a typhoon and eventually landed in Hawaii. There, he began to record a radio show to celebrate Gorillaz' Ten Year anniversary, the We Are Ten Radio Show. It later revealed that he wasn't in Hawaii at all, but was instead in a ransacked house at 212 Wobble Street, London, where the other three members managed to reach him.

Notice of Eviction. In early 2012, the four remaining band members were seen living at 212 Wobble Street, London (as seen in the DoYaThing music video). 2-D is seen checking on Noodle as she sleeps. Most of her facial injuries appear to have healed. The Boogieman was also revealed to still be alive and lived with the band, reading a newspaper. Russel is later seen sleeping on the roof of the row house as 2-D receives a letter stating that the band was being evicted from the residence. The floating windmill island can be seen in a state of disrepair and anchored to the roof of the building. This was later deemed non-canon by Jamie Hewlett,[6] with phase four beginning directly after the events of the Rhinestone Eyes video with events contradicting what had originally been established in 2011's tenth-anniversary radio special and 2012’s DoYaThing music video.

(This ending was scrapped due to the break made for Monkey: Journey To The West taking up time and making the lore illogical)

Phase Four: We Are Still Humanz (2013–2018)

The Gorillaz in Phase 4. This phase four plot summary is adapted from social media posts, music videos, phase four interviews, the phase four Mixed Reality app, The Book Of Gorillaz, Demon Dayz Festival Margate, the Humanz Tour, the G Magazine and interviews on the unofficial biography, Dawn Of The Ogre.

During the attack of Plastic Beach, Murdoc escaped the island with Cyborg Noodle in a submarine. On his way home to England, Murdoc was captured by EMI, the now-defunct former publisher of Gorillaz' music. EMI had been searching the globe for Murdoc, who they threw in "Dungeon Abbey", a secret prison beneath Abbey Road Studios. Murdoc was eventually released under the condition that he was to immediately begin work on a new Gorillaz album. Murdoc agreed and moved into a new studio/home in West London.[7]

Shortly after the attack on Plastic Beach, Noodle awoke in a small Japanese village and began working as a pearl diver under the apprenticeship of Chiyoko, the woman who had nursed her back to health after finding her washed up on the Japanese shore. While working one day, Noodle accidentally released Mazuu, a shape-shifting devil that had spent over 500 years trapped in a large pearl at the bottom of the ocean. Noodle spent years chasing Mazuu, finding it in Tokyo disguised as a human, having risen to the criminal underworld. Noodle infiltrated Mazuu's headquarters, decapitated Mazuu, and escaped in one piece. She packaged herself in a FedEx crate and addressed it to "West London, England, c/o Murdoc Niccals".[8]

While escaping Plastic Beach with Noodle, Russell had gotten separated off the coast of Japan. Being mistaken for a whale (due to his unusually large size) he was harpooned but managed to escape. He lost consciousness and washed up on the shores of North Korea, where he was carried to Pyongyang and exhibited as "Pulgasari", North Korea's "Godzilla". Russell became the country's most popular attraction before shrinking back to normal size due to malnutrition, after which he was sent back to London where he moved into Murdoc's home in West London to create a new Gorillaz album.[9]

During the attack on Plastic Beach, 2-D was swallowed whole by "Massive Dick", the whale that terrified him throughout his time spent on the island. Shortly after, Massive Dick died and washed up on the shore of a desert island. 2-D emerged from the whale's carcass and spent months surviving solely off of Massive Dick's dead body, before realizing he was actually on Guadalupe Island off the coast of Mexico. He walked thirty minutes before finding a beach resort and spent the rest of the year there on vacation before finally heading home to England where he was picked up by a driver Murdoc hired and was reunited with the band.[10]

The band recorded throughout 2016 at Studio 13, Murdoc’s secret new studio in London, finally completing their first album in 7 years, Humanz, in 2017. On the 19th of January 2017, the band released their first song after their five-year hiatus: Hallelujah Money, featuring Benjamin Clementine, along with its own music video. Murdoc decided to release the album by throwing “the party to end all parties” in a haunted house in Detroit known as the “Spirit House”. [11] When the band first arrived at the house in the Saturnz Barz music video, they were haunted by three demons. A giant one-eyed blue worm haunted Noodle, a grey multi-limbed monster haunted Russel and a pizza slice with a face haunted 2-D. In the Strobelite music video, Noodle and 2-D have fun dancing at the party, while Russel sleeps and Murdoc does shady business with a mysterious man at the bar.

In June 2017 a song and a music video named Sleeping Powder was discovered in 2-D's room in the Gorillaz app. Later the same day, the video was released to the public, and one week later, the song was officially released as a single on digital platforms. 2-D recorded the song and music video himself as a response to fans who criticized Humanz for having too many collaborators and not enough of 2-D's voice. 2-D was able to record the track and video in secret due to Murdoc being placed into a week-long coma.

The band went on a world tour, and even created their own festival called the Demon Dayz Festival. The first of which took place in Margate, England in June 2017. Before Gorillaz took the stage at Demon Dayz, a mysterious cult called the “Kool Klown Klan” were spotted holding bells and marching. Little is known about the cult, but they are referenced in the lyrics and imagery of the Humanz song Momentz.

While nearing the end of the Humanz promotion cycle one, the band made one last last push to promote their final Phase 4 release, the Humanz Super Deluxe Box Set, a vinyl box set containing an exclusive artbook and un-released songs and b-sides from the Humanz sessions, released on the 3rd of November with an accompanying single, Garage Palace, and its own visualiser.

“ The way we went about this left a lot of holes in people’s pockets, but a wise yet pathetic man once said “Being a Gorillaz fan don’t come cheap”. (...) I know a lot of people can’t afford this sort of stuff, but the internet does exist so I’m not sorry. „ ~ 2-D, Dawn Of The Ogre  In December 2017, the band released their own Magazine, titled G Magazine. The 34-page magazine features insights from the band on Humanz, editorials from each Gorillaz member, and an interview between the band members and Jamie Hewlett. In February 2018 the band won the BRIT Award for Best British Band. While attempting to accept his award, Murdoc was arrested and taken to HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs in London for an at the time undisclosed crime.

Phase Five: No More Unicorns Anymore (2018–2019)

The Gorillaz in Phase 5. This phase five plot summary is adapted from the Free Murdoc campaight, music videos, social media content, phase five interviews, Demon Dayz Festival LA, The Now Now Tour and interviews on the unofficial biography, Dawn Of The Ogre.

Hot off the heels of their big return album with Humanz in 2017, the band decided to continue their momentum and release a follow-up album in 2018. The band hired Ace of The Powerpuff Girls fame while still on the Humanz Tour to temporarily replace Murdoc as bassist while he was serving time in prison, and released their sixth studio album, The Now Now.

In the music video for The Now Now's lead single Humility, Russell, Noodle and Ace enjoy their day on the Venice Boardwalk in Los Angeles while the uncharacteristically happy 2-D roller-skates around the boardwalk, enjoying his new life without Murdoc constantly abusing him. At the end of the video, Russell trips 2-D, whose eyes turn from white to black. After which, he loses his ability to roller-skate and immediately falls a second time.

While the band embarked on their 2018 tour supporting The Now Now, Murdoc began planning his escape from prison. Murdoc claimed that the man he met at the bar in the Strobelite music video was a demon crime lord named 'El Mierda', who framed him for smuggling. Murdoc decided to escape the prison and track down El Mierda, but he couldn't bribe his way out since Noodle had frozen his bank account, believing him to be guilty of smuggling. He decided that picking a fight with 'Big Balls McGuinness' (one of the toughest prisoners in Wormwood Scrubs) would give him the respect he needed to get inside info on El Mierda from other prisoners. After losing the fight to McGuinness, he set his sights on 'Vlad the Inhaler', an associate of El Mierda. Murdoc recruited a fan to catfish Vlad, getting close enough to him to find the whereabouts of El Mierda. Astonishingly, this worked, and Murdoc now had coordinates to what he believed to be the crime lord's hideout in Patagonia.

Noodle's selfie, reporting that she's alive. Murdoc finally enlisted the help of Noodle, who had been ignoring his countless calls. She only agreed to help after realizing the demon El Mierda is a soul harvester and may have taken 2-D’s soul, noting he hasn't been acting like himself for months. Convinced Murdoc knows about this, she refuses to do it for his sake but instead 2-D's. Noodle set a course for Patagonia to take on El Mierda herself. A week later, Noodle reported that she was safe - still embarking on her trip to El Mierda's hideout, being shown the way by some Andean mountain cats after getting "kinda lost". However, due to complications, Murdoc decided to escape once and for singlehandedly through the sewers. In a turn for the worst, he was assumed to have drowned in sewage while trying to escape. Meanwhile, the rest of the band was enjoying the success of The Now Now, releasing a music video for the single Tranz.

Two weeks later, Noodle arrived at the coordinates Murdoc had discovered, but instead of a secret hideout, the coordinates led to a health spa. She met El Mierda, who had given up his life of crime years prior, converting his evil lair into the El Montaña Wellness Centre. Notably, she discovered that El Mierda was not the man Murdoc met in the 'Strobelite' video, but was, in fact, an immortal old man who had never even heard of Murdoc. Noodle researched the details of Murdoc’s incarceration to discover that he was not sent to prison for smuggling but rather for simple parking fines. He was only meant to serve nine months and would have been released the same day he supposedly drowned during his escape. Noodle discovered that Murdoc had greatly fabricated the nature of his imprisonment, blaming his crime on the man from the Strobelite video, who turned out to just be an innocent leather salesman named Juan.

Moments later, a yak arrived at the El Montaña Wellness Centre. Noodle went to investigate to find Murdoc tied to the top of the yak. It turned out that Murdoc was simply acting out for attention, making up an imprisonment story that he described as “mostly bollocks”. But as his story grew more outlandish he felt a need to continue keeping up appearances, resulting in an unnecessary prison escape that nearly had him killed. The only clue as to why he survived has been a mysterious person or thing he saw while in the sewer, which he later sketched out. His near-death experience gave him the epiphany that headlines weren't worth lying about and putting Noodle in unnecessary danger. He decided to meet Noodle at El Mierda’s hideout, tying himself to a yak he named Madge after Madonna. Murdoc was even prepared to sacrifice himself to save her if need be, luckily this was unnecessary and when he arrived, the two simply spent a few days at the health spa while Murdoc apologized for his actions. After learning the true nature of El Mierda, the two discerned that 2-D’s difference in character was simply him enjoying his new-found confidence without Murdoc around abusing him, or as Murdoc put it, “just missing me”. When Noodle and Murdoc returned to the band, Murdoc vowed to be a better man and joined them on the final leg of The Now Now Tour.

Towards the end of 2018, the band teamed up with Casio to produce a line of Gorillaz G-Shock watches. The band released a promotional web series to advertise the line of watches. The series, titled “Mission M101” follows the band on an intergalactic adventure, teaming up with G-Shock founder Kikuo Ibe to release their line of watches across the galaxy. On October 20th, the band performed at the Día de los Muertos themed Demon Dayz Festival 2018 in Los Angeles. Four days later, the band played their final show of The Now Now Tour in Mexico City, Mexico.

Phase Six: Wish You Wear Ear (2019–2021)

The Gorillaz in Phase 6. This phase six plot summary is adapted from social media, music videos, Machine Bitez, Get Lost with Gorillaz, Gorillaz x Fred Perry, and phase six interviews.

During a brief hiatus for the band, on the 3rd of September 2019 while visiting Iran to see Lake Urmia, Noodle made note of how climate change had taken a toll on the lake. She came to a realization regarding the fleeting state of nature on Earth and sent a postcard to Murdoc, 2-D, and Russel at Studio 13 with a message detailing her desire to build a machine and see the world before it’s gone. The postcard arrived at Studio 13 on the 12th of September.[12]

On the 7th of September, 2-D sent a postcard to the band while visiting Beirut, informing Noodle that he had gotten the parts for the machine she had mentioned, asking what they were for. The postcard arrived at Studio 13 on the 24th of September.[13]

On the 14th of September, Murdoc sent a postcard from his annual drunken holiday in Ibiza. The postcard arrived at Studio 13 on the 26th of September.[14]

Wishyouwearear.jpg On the 21st of September, Russel sent a post-card from Mexico while working on his hot sauce business, "Hobbs Hot Sauce". He included a message telling the band that he’d “be seeing [them] and the machine REAL soon”. The postcard arrived at Studio 13 on the 4th of October.[15]

The machine (revealed as the "Song Machine") was activated on the 28th of January.[16] The following day, the band announced their next project, Song Machine, a multimedia series of songs/music videos released episodically through 2020, as a continuously-updating playlist via streaming services.

In a statement to the press, Russell said "Song Machine is a whole new way of doing what we do. Gorillaz breaking the mould ‘cos the mould got old. World is moving faster than a supercharged particle, so we’ve gotta stay ready to drop. We don’t even know who’s stepping through the studio next. Song Machine feeds on the unknown, runs on pure chaos. So whatever the hell’s coming, we’re primed and ready to produce like there’s no tomorrow. Y’know, just in case.”[17]

The band's new Kong Studios as it appears in the Désolé music video. Throughout the course of the series, the band collaborates with musicians they’ve met on their various trips around the world, inviting them to record at their now-renamed West London studio, officially dubbed the new Kong Studios.[18] In the music video for Désolé, 2-D, Noodle, and Russel travel to Lake Como via a mysterious teleporting door in Kong Studios and record with Fatoumata Diawara. Murdoc is left behind and unable to reopen the portal, leaving him lonely and depressed in Kong. When questioned about this, Murdoc claimed he wasn’t upset about being left behind and didn’t care about their trip to Italy. Shortly before enviously asking 2-D and Russel about portals just “in case [he] ever [needs] to find one for future reference”.

In the face of a global pandemic, the band practised social distancing, sequestering themselves in various parts of Kong Studios.[19] Murdoc locked himself in Kong’s basement, explaining how he was working on “something big” that would “change the effing world”. After a look through his online purchase history, this “something big” appears to have involved nearly £500 worth of pine wood and a blow-up doll.[20] Meanwhile, Russel caught up on television while experimenting with an assorted variety of food/entertainment combinations.[21]

As the months passed, Murdoc continued providing social media updates regarding his secret project, before finally unveiling it in the music video for PAC-MAN.[22][23] This special project, his very own orgone accumulator (based on the pseudoscientific concept of Wilhelm Reich), was built solely by Murdoc in the basement of Kong Studios. Throughout the video, Murdoc can be seen contentedly sitting and relaxing in his creation, which is an act of jealousy and defiance, he claims can also act as his own private teleportation portal despite not showing any interest or the apparent ability to open a portal of any kind.

In the Strange Timez music video, the band took a trip through space to destroy a billboard on the moon. In the music video for The Valley Of The Pagans the band travelled through a portal to Los Angeles for a drive around the city before abruptly falling through another portal leading them to Plastic Beach.

2-D rescues Murdoc In the musix video for The Lost Chord, the band found themselves back at Plastic Beach ten years after the Black Clouds’ attack on the island. Past trauma resurfaced as they explored the remains of the island. Murdoc is seen overcome with guilt at the sight of a damaged and deactivated Cyborg Noodle. Soon after, a sea monster awoke from the depths of the ocean and began destroying the island. The deactivated Cyborg Noodle is seen opening her eye as she lifelessly sinks to the bottom of the ocean. A portal back to Kong suddenly opened up as the ruins of the island sunk into the ocean. 2-D, Noodle, and Russel escaped as the portal closed, leaving Murdoc stranded in the ocean. In the spirit of friendship and forgiveness, 2-D quickly reopened the portal and reached out, saving Murdoc’s life.

The eviction note received by the band In May of 2021, a demonic sinkhole opened beneath the West London Kong Studios, leaving it inoperable and under renovation. During this time, the band went on a road trip in Murdoc's Winnebago, taking their instruments and recording equipment along with them.[24] The band released a surprise EP titled Meanwhile in August of 2021. The EP was released as a "homage to Notting Hill Carnival", an annual event that usually takes place in London every August, but couldn't occur in 2020 or 2021 due to the global pandemic. The EP features frequent Notting Hill Carnival performers Jelani Blackman, Barrington Levy, AJ Tracey, and Alicai Harley.[25]

In December 2021, the band was contacted by a rogue agent of the Department of Musical Corrections, "a covert organisation operating in the murky shadows of the music industry" with the goal to "stifle originality" in the world of pop music. The DMC agent, known only as GFlat, revealed on social media that Gorillaz had been on the top of the organization's "most subversive" watchlist for decades. GFlat claimed that "a storm [was] coming", and began leaking classified DMC documents to the public through the Gorillaz discord. This culminated in the release of the 20th Anniversary Deluxe Boxset, which included the the exclusive LPs Live At The Forum, 2001 and Demoz, a collection of early Gorillaz demos that had previously been locked away in the DMC vaults, and.

Phase Seven: The Static Channel (2022–Present)

Gorillaz in June 2022 This phase seven plot summary is adapted from music videos, social media posts, the Stuart Potcast, The Last Cult mailing list, the official Gorillaz Discord server, the phase seven website and phase seven interviews.

During July 2022, the band announced that they had begun recording their next album at the Silver Lake Mansiom in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, while the London Sewage Department continued Kong’s restoration. During this time Murdoc became increasingly interested in the occult, and eventually founded a cult focusing on the supernatural, dubbed The Last Cult. The rest of the band weren’t too keen but didn’t think much of it.[26]

2-D was given the role of 'The Chosen One', and started a podcast as a way to journal the first days of The Last Cult.[27] Over time, 2-D talked about various tasks he’d been assigned including digging holes, painting Murdoc’s giant obelisk, finding books for Noodle, as well as the activities of the neighbours, mostly for the “main lady” next door, who seemed to fancy 2-D, and Murdoc became attracted to. It was also implied that Murdoc may have started the cult simply in an attempt to impress her.

The Static Channel (as seen on the interactive Gorillaz website) broadcasting footage of Los Angeles in 1923. Around this time, the band began receiving strange broadcast television transmissions. The role of 'Seeker of Truth' was given to Russel, and he was tasked with watching these transmissions and solving the mystery behind them. Russel discovered that all of the transmissions dated back to the years 1923, 1948, 1973, and 1998, following a 25 year pattern. Among these transmissions was a news broadcast from the near future in the following year 2023, in which the band is taken to LA County Hospital and questioned by LAPD officers after a cult gathering caused a supernatural event to occur under the Hollywood sign (as seen in the music video for Cracker Island). Unaware of the events leading to this future, the band watched the transmission. The supernatural event from this transmission would later be dubbed by Russel as 'The Rupture'.

While watching 2-D paint The Last Cult's giant obelisk for 'The Great Leader' Murdoc, Noodle - 'The Scholar' - began to question if "this cult thing might already be going a bit sideways". Russel seemed happy with the obelisk, as it only improved the reception of the mysterious transmissions. Murdoc had hoped the obelisk would impress his crush next door, but as it turned out, the woman next door was actually 'Moon Flower', the high priestess of 'The Forever Cult', and was unimpressed with Murdoc and The Last Cult. Murdoc's jealousy grew as Moon Flower continued to take a liking to 2-D. Meanwhile, Russel was going mad trying to solve the mystery of the transmissions and the Rupture.

After piecing together several clues from the Static Channel, Russel was convinced that the Rupture would occur on New Year’s Eve 2023 at midnight, causing an inter-dimensional portal to open under the Hollywood sign. However, nothing happened that night as Russel stood by the sign, alone in the rain for hours. He continued watching the Static Channel for clues, slowly slipping into a dazed state of hypnosis.

Forever and Ever Pictures’ studio in the 1920s. 2-D continued to spend time with Moon Flower next door, and was eventually recruited to the Forever Cult after drinking a mysterious tea made from the Forever Cult’s garden. Through her concern for Russel and 2-D’s safety, Noodle began piecing together clues of her own, uncovering a strange connection between Moon Flower and Lady Hollodown, an actress and movie producer from the 1920s. She came to the conclusion that the Forever Cult has been around since as early as the beginning of the 20th century, masquerading as a movie studio called "Forever and Ever Pictures" that was partially owned by Lady Hollodown.

When she arrived next door to confront the Forever Cult, Noodle was met with an entirely empty compound. The only piece of evidence was a clipping from the Forever Cult’s doctrine, focusing on a ritual that occurs once every 25 years. It seemed that despite Murdoc’s insistence that Moon Flower was interested in 2-D romantically, she was actually using him as the sacrificial lamb for this occult ceremony.

Clipping from the Forever Cult’s doctrine. The rest of the band tracked 2-D and the Forever Cult to their old movie studio under the Hollywood Sign in time to interrupt the ceremony (as seen in the music video for Silent Running). Suspended by rope, 2-D was slowly lowered into a pit to be eaten by a monster and continue the Forever Cult’s cycle. After having a change of heart, Moon Flower attempted to rescue 2-D while the rest of the band fought off the Forever Cult members. When Murdoc accidentally dropped his “signature fragrance” perfume into the pit, it was consumed by the monster causing it to explode and cause the Rupture. The members of the Forever Cult turned to ash as the cycle was broken, with Moon Flower falling to the floor, seemingly dead.

Murdoc fled the crime scene while the Los Angeles Police Department arrived, and as they had previously seen on the Static Channel, the rest of the band were arrested and brought to Los Angeles County Hospital. 2-D and Noodle were questioned by officers while Russel continued to watch the Static Channel before finally snapping out of it. Murdoc arrived as the recently deceased Moon Flower rose from a gurney to meet Murdoc, and started to age rapidly. The two kissed as the police, doctors, and patients watched in disbelief.

2-D with Moon Flower’s ashes. Despite surviving the Rupture, Moon Flower was only given a few more days to live before turning to ash as well. She suspected these days were given to her as a reward for her part in 2-D’s rescue, revealing to Murdoc that she found 2-D to be too pure to sacrifice, and she had been leaving clues for the band to stop the ritual the whole time. Moon Flower spent her last days dating Murdoc, comforted by his continued romantic pursuit despite knowing her true nature. She turned to ash after spending a night with Murdoc watching her old film “The Hills Are Hungry”, keeping her ashes in an urn to remember her. Sorry.

Honestly? I needed this today.

[nelyoslegalteam]

Hi hello, here have an excuse to talk about murdoc harfoot-brandybuck of the easterly inn <3

jaz i love you so much you KNOW i have been waiting for someone to send me this EXACT ask. how the FUCK do i explain the character i have been playing for three years now.

so murdoc harfoot brandybuck of the easterly inn is my player character from my friend group's adventures in middle earth campaign (loving referred to as the mirkwood campaign), gmed by the absolutely wonderful @potatoobsessed999. he's very much still evolving, even as we get closer to the campaign's conclusion, as he absolutely has been over the last three years, but i will attempt to describe him, is he is my absolute favorite of my (like two) tolkien ocs, and may very well be my favorite oc of mine of all time at this point.

murdoc, as his name makes apparent, is a hobbit. he has been raised by his uncles and aunt, a family of upper-class inkeepers, as the heir apparent of the family inn. before i knew anything else about who i wanted him to be, or who he was going to become, murdoc was meant to embody the idea of home. he's creature-comfort, he's hospitality in its purest form, he's the maker of stews and the finder of comfortable places to sleep and the brewer of teas. this is the absolute core of who murdoc is: where he is is his home, and who he's with are his people, and he will do absolutely anything and everything to keep it all safe.

when murdoc was about the hobbit equivalent of a teenager, his more adventurous uncle got it into his head that he too should have a great big adventure just like his drinking buddy and idol bilbo baggins, and up and moved the family inn out of the shire and to a northern corner of mirkwood.

when murdoc was about the hobbit equivalent of, say, a human eighteen-year-old, he began to have extremely disturbing prophetic dreams.

so what do you do when you're a foresighted hobbit in the middle of a famously dangerous forest whose aforementioned foresight has every last bit of you screaming that it is now your responsibility to keep this place and everyone in it safe? you join an adventuring party, serve as an emissary of radagast the brown, have a sort of falling out with radagast the brown over realizing that his boss is evil and nobody believes you yet, adopt the ghost of actual maedhros feanorion (who is possessing your best friend's sword, as one does) as your new dad, and do a bunch of arson and protective rage murder as you develop greater and greater paranoia about whether you will be able to see coming the threats you will need to see in order to keep the people you care about alive!!!!!!

some more fun things about murdoc, in no particular order:

yes the fact that his name is Like That is on purpose. he's a pretentious piece of shit who named himself. his name is extremely reflective of the fact that he is just Like That. (also his partner is a huge nerd who got way into hobbit history around the time murdoc was picking his name and it is just as cute as it is stupid)

languages that murdoc speaks, in the order in which he learned them, include: westron, fucking spider, quenya, and sindarin. he has the most perfect most annoying feanorian accent when speaking in quenya. yes, i rolled to determine this.

(in murdoc's defense, he learned quenya because he wanted maedhros to be able to speak his first language with someone, and it was something to bond over.)

maedhros helped a very afraid and traumatized murdoc begin to interface with his foresight by acting as an anchor point for him while dreaming, to help him develop greater control over what he sees in them and to use his foresight on purpose.

murdoc did use the realization that this meant that he can see maedhros in his dreams as an immediate opportunity to hug him ;w;

murdoc's foresight cannot see nazgûl. anna, my beloved gm, has used this for effect emotional and horrific.

murdoc harfoot brandybuck of the easterly inn does in fact introduce himself to everyone he meets as "murdoc harfoot brandybuck of the easterly inn"

this resulted in murdoc being put on the entire-ass council of mirkwood because everyone assumed that this was an important title and the easterly inn must be a small fiefdom

murdoc did not correct anyone about the fact that the easterly inn is very much not a small fiefdom

murdoc has a +13 intimidation, making it his highest stat. i'm not sure what stats our gm gave to @jaz-the-bard for maedhros, but we have talked about it at some point and murdoc's is apparently higher

murdoc has a feat that lets him vanish into thin air. it's not magic or anything. he's extremely not a ringbearer. he's just That sneaky.

has a rivalry with one of The Eagles^tm. over hospitality.

fire motif fire motif fire motif

his primary weapon is an enchanted dwarven bow. he shoots flaming arrows.

lover of a good molotov cocktail to solve all his problems very fast

special interests include teas, cooking, and linguistics!! likes to research all the local plants and come up with tea brews that remind him of people or places, or pair well with certain things. came up with a brew for himself that he only shares with people he trusts and cares deeply for. i do in fact have little snippets for points at which he has shared it with each member of the party.

i did once storyboard an edgy animatic for him to the killers' jenny was a friend of mine. i am still very proud of it, and lament that i cannot animate. or do art at all.

i have been playing this character through a literal global pandemic, the completion of two entire degrees, my first adult job, and literally so much other life stuff. sometimes i think about how long i've had him for and how much he's changed, very organically, in that time, and get entirely too emotional about him tbh.

murdoc operates, i would say, from a very genuine sense of care for others, eclipsed by a rather marked lack of estel. for about the whole three years i've had him, i would say i've felt genuinely none from him, and i did not think it was there.

the last time i played him however, i did.

anyhow!!!!! this post would not be complete without this lovely art of our party - i don't know that the artist we commissioned is on tumblr, but "hey can i share this?" was met with an enthusiastic "go for it!" so!! on top is my boy, and left to right down are the bearer (@thymo-leonta), déorwyn (@shadowkat2000), ríros (@jaz-the-bard, who also plays maedhros), and ioreth (not canon ioreth jdjdndn, whose player is definitely not on tumblr).

anyhow i love my party and this game and my friends and my stupid murder arson hobbit inkeeper boy so so very much <33333

and thank you jaz for literally just giving me an opportunity to talk about him lmao, get you friends who send you asks about your ocs even though they literally know so much about your ocs >:p <33

[askunclemurdoc]

[dasmores237]

Woe, OC information be upon ye

OUTDATED ASF THIS IS SO CRINGE I AM MAKING ANOTHER VERSION SOON

Ight so, I've already posted a whole thing on my acc here that explains abt my OC Marilyn and her life in between the phases with her weird little family, but I don't think I ever explained her as a whole, so that's what I'm here to do for all the 3 people who care. (I see you there Astro and Boi. I love you both :3)

Name: Marilyn Mariana Niccals

Age: Depends on Phase

Height: 4'11

Sexuality: Omnisexual (female pref) and Ace

Hobbies: Painting, Reading, Overthinking

Music type: HipHop rock

Favorite Bands: Gorillaz (duh), Beastie Boys, B.I.G, Bootie Brown, 2Pac, Shit like that etc

Family Members: Murdoc Niccals (Bio father), Russel Hobbs (Uncle/Father figure), Noodle (Older sister/Aunt), and 2D (Uncle)

- Hispanic

- Very very protective over her small family

- Once told Russel he was her parental figure replacement since her mom dumped her and he cried inside

- Has met Del before (He still exists in this au bc screw you) and he's like her Chaotic uncle/Cousin that convinces her to do illegal stuff while Russel is asleep

- Russel taught her how to bake and she will make emotional support muffins at 3am for herself and other people

- Deathly afraid of animatronics and robots due to Plastic Beach’s Cyborg

- Craves physical affection like a drug for no reason but is too embarrassed and scared to ask so she'll just awkwardly sit next to you and slowly scoot closer and closer to you like a feral cat learning to trust

- Sucks at emotions and comforting people so if you're sad she'll avoid you for a few hours then you'll wake up to a small canvas painting of your favorite animal on your desk.

- Deeply cares about others in her own odd way

- Doesn't show much emotion to others but is very emotional and compassionate around immediate family

- Used to be very insecure about her body but eventually had a breakdown and gave up one night and quit caring

- Just like her dad in more ways than she should be

-Will insult you in ways you pray you never get again if you dare insult one of her family members

- Watches movies with 2D and Noodle and the three pretend to be film critics as a joke but every time it slowly turns into a french version of Gordon Ramsey

- Her and Murdoc gossip in Spanish with each other

- Used to simp for Rouge and Shadow as a child and Murdoc still refuses to let it go

- Will follow Russel and Noodle around everywhere like a puppy on some days for no reason other than she finds them "Cool" and "Comforting"

- Avid Garfield enjoyer

- Her, Noodle, and 2D will have dance parties for no reason

- Favorite album of her family's is Demon Days

- Picked up a lot of her dad's traits, such as: Overprotectiveness, Possesive behavior to those she loves, Anger issues and temper, stubborness, Over emotional, And is easy to hold grudges

- Russel and Del's biggest fan and strongest warrior

[swan-shaped-scones]

More Cowboy Murdoc

@respect-false-iconz YEEHAW!

[supposed2bfunny]

"The cranky one turns out to be a softy" (stares at murdoc)

He’s getting old; he can’t keep pretending to be a total crank forever! 2D and Russ and Noodle and Ace know the truth...let us see your soft side, you idiot gremlin...