#kinda funny that when I first got into them 2d was briefly my favorite

[pissjesus]

question: what about murdoc made you go so feral? i am equally as unhinged, and i find it interesting how over the years the Murdoc in my brain is nearly a different murdoc we tend to get in canon nowadays.

Short answer: to quote my favorite US President, Jessica Rabbit— he makes me laugh. I think bass is the sexiest instrument. He’s bisexual, and I’m bisexual.

Long answer: he just seems to tick all the boxes when it comes to my favorite character archetypes: dubious parental figures, crusty old men, mansluts, vampiric in nature, wet and pathetic like a newborn deer, mean, bisexual, short kings—you know? I had a major Beatles phase when I was younger and he looks like a rejected Beatle so it’s probably also a Pavlovian response. He has a strange sexual allure and yet he’s so pathetic and it only makes him more compelling. Not only does he wear capes without a doubt in his mind that it makes him cool, but he only started doing it in phase 2, when he was pushing 40. At his big age he decided he’s gonna wear a cape. He’s a disgusting womanizer but in a masochistic way that somehow makes him non-threatening. He’s angry and horrible but with just enough tragedy in his backstory that I can project all my angst onto him. I could fix him but I like him better as a wretch. Here’s some images of him that I like:

To answer the second half: The discrepancy between Murdoc in our brains and Murdoc in canon is probably in part due to like, we idealize our favorite fictional men, but also the way they write him now is so neutered compared to the way he started out. We don’t even get to see his ass, he doesn’t make fun of celebrities by name, he’s supposed to be nice now but instead of actual writing or anything he just cries. You know, the usual gripes