me and my 10 piece chicken mcnugget meal
based on this gif from Wilde (1997)
ever wanted to rejoin and old fandom from years ago for the soul purpose of returning in a blaze of glory with the gift that is a wildly improved artstyle
(the child in you always looked up to the amazing big artists in the fandom and now you finally have the chance to be like them now you’re a seasoned artist)
doodles from insta/twt requests!
in order: 2doc beerpong, murdoc getting noodle fairy floss (he ate some, 2doc and a raccoon that hates murdoc, 2d murdoc and noodle playing spongebob monopoly and murdoc biblically losing, 2doc playing rock paper scissors to decide who tops (2d loses consistently)
plus some random stuff from this week
was asked if ebi had a girlfriend and YES she does i finally got around to designing her! her name is Liddy
whole lot of Ebi infodumping tonight so i’ll close off w a doodle from ages ago of her nd @sundriedlemon ‘s oc Arlo! who’s technically her half brother
How does Ebi handle El Mañana and Noodle’s presumed death? How does Murdoc approach the topic with her versus what he tells everyone else?
I’m going to draw more of it but noodle is really ebis older sister. She’d have been around 13 when ebi was born and like immediately declared her a sibling. she literally named her! they’re like ideal sisters they hardly ever fight unless they play mario kart. so after el mañana, ebi knows something is super wrong because noodle is gone and everyone seems so upset. Murdoc knows he has to tell her what he’s done but he doesn’t want to lose another daughter once Ebi knows the truth so he just toes around his involvement. But 2d tells her later the whole story and lets her decide if she wants to be mad or not. But ebi is just devastated. She doesn’t fully believe that noodle won’t come back but all she knows is that she isn’t here.
Murdoc manages to find Noodle in hell and free her from captivity but it doesn’t fix anything and both of his daughters see him totally differently. It’s one of those things that Murdoc regrets forever.
Before Phase 4, was Ebi living with 2D and does she have her own “Book of Ebi”? Did she even want to go back with Murdoc, even if it meant being with the rest of her family as well?
this bit of lore is kinda messy in canon anyway since noodle and russel are still at pb, cyborg noodle and 2d and murdoc are on tour ect.. then 2d writes the fall and gets eaten by a whale and murdoc is running scared from the boogie man… JUST MESSY. i can barley follow it but yeah ebi stayed w 2d right after pb for a sad few months. they both had to recover in their own ways from what happened there (2d did so w pills). Murdoc does find out where 2d is and ends up taking him and ebi on tour, where they end up locked in a dressing room lol.
Ebi is sort of mature beyond her age by now cause of what she’s been through and she DOES NOT want to be around murdoc. but she has to and god she lets him know. this actually hurts murdoc a lot. it’s really confronting to look at his daughter and see his younger, dad-hating self in her face. they really grow distant around here. it gets a little better once the band is reunited but we all know it’s always fleeting because of their breakups and murdoc’s arrests ect. all of the domestic unrest is pretty hard on her
Does Ebi miss her father all that much when he’s in jail in Phase 5? And when it seems like he died in his escape attempt?
She’ll hide it but she does. Just like her dad she bottles things up until she can’t anymore. At first she’s glad of it like it’s divine revenge for the shit he’s done over the years. But time goes on and she really does miss him. She can see how it tears 2D up too whos not so good at hiding how he misses Murdoc. Ebi does try and make 2d see that murdoc is not good for him but she’s also able to realise that 2d can’t stop himself from loving him. and she kind of realises she’s just like 2D too. She loves her dad despite it all.
So they kind of work together on the now now. It’s 2Ds heartbreak album through and through but Ebi is always with him in the studio to help him with the melancholy vibe.
How does 2Doc progress in the Ebi AU? Is she the first one to catch on that they have chemistry and feelings for each other, before either of them do?
WAS WAITING FOR THIS ONE prepare to be lored
so it starts almost as soon as Ebi shows up. Maybe 2doc had some tension before that but neither of them can tell if it’s feelings or visceral hatred yet (love their stupid dynamic). Anyway, little baby shows up on the front step one night and murdoc is so adamant it isn’t his that he doesn’t even bother investigating and let’s 2d make the fuss. (I drew some ideas from this initially in another post).
2d kind of becomes a wet nurse minus the breastfeeding and just looks after her. Mind you he also has 0 experience with children but someone has to do it cause it certainly isn’t murdoc (russel helps 2d but this is abt 2doc so). this obv causes a lot of friction between them cause 2d rightly shouldn’t have to cover murdoc’s ass and murdoc is still claiming it isn’t his kid (he knows he’s just a dick). 2D and ebi end up being attached which ends up making murdoc jealous and therefore a little more interested in being around. He starts off by just sitting near the two when they nap together, placing a blanket over them and such. Then he’ll let 2d show him how to change her and so on. Turns out 2d is attracted to murdoc once he’s not yelling and screaming. He finds how he quietly listens and… actually tries to be better very endearing. So 2d falls first.
They pretty much raise Ebi as “not dating” parents. But how not gay can you be when you’re literally raising a child together? not much tbh. It’s slow burn obv. Sweet glances as they swing Ebi by her arms together. The awkward implications when she makes them play house together makes 2d play the mum. They still fight and Murdoc’s still a dick but they try and hold it together for her.
They end up being official during song machine (most of the 2doc lore through phase 3-6 is pretty canon here). and yeah!! they are all pretty happy as far as traumatised family groups go
What’s Ebi’s role in the Phase 7 cult, if she even decides to go along with it?
Sometimes Ebi finds it fun to humour her dads insane ideas, if she has nothing better to do. Naturally her role is “Heir”, and she’ll theoretically succeed murdoc upon his untimely death or something. she totally feeds into his plans until she gets wary of 2ds involvement with the blue cult. she tries her best to convince murdoc that 2d is in trouble but murdoc is set on the idea that 2d is just trying to make him jealous.
in this version of phase 7 (cause the real lore hurts my brain), murdoc is trying to get 2d back not to rescue him but to steal him back from moonflower cause she “needs her own sacrificial lamb”. After a whole back and forth of murdoc accusing 2d of running off w a younger woman and 2d trying to explain he was about to be sacrificed, Ebi decides she should just mind her own business next time and stay out of her dads shenanigans.
Once she’s all grown up, does Ebi date anyone?
She’s a heartbreaker as they say!! I’m making her a lesbian cause i say so but in her youth i say she dated a lot of men. It took her a long time to figure out her sexuality and after a few wlw heartbreaks she finds her long term gf!!
WHO!!! I HAVE YET TO DESIGN
but i will! trust me it’s up there on my drawing list. she’ll be a cool alt chick as well. but yea stay tuned cause i actually have ideas for this
Does Ebi play anything or sing and does she join Gorillaz or a different band?
Actually, i initially wanted to make her one of the children in the Dirty Harry choir. But she was born in 2003 so she’d have been like a year old sooo doesn’t really work…
But yes! She does work behind the scenes. Mostly because Murdoc made her. It’s a bit of a “oh my dad loves baseball so he signed me to the under 6 team” thing. She loves synth and helped 2D with the synth pads on Stylo and Hollywood ect. Murdoc is sorta mad that she didn’t pick up bass or at least another string instrument like he plays and chose 2Ds love for keyboard. But 2D was always a lot more patient teaching her things so she took to it more.
Other than that she doesn’t do a lot of musical stuff. She works w Gorillaz on a lot of their songs to date but has a different job!
Who is the biological mother of Ebi, just a one night stand of Murdoc’s? And does she ever involve herself with either of them?
i need to think more abt this cause i’m not opposed to it either way. Idk if i’ll ever implement Ebi’s mom further cause I like the idea of her just being a mistake from murdoc’s past that caught up w him. I like the idea of him having to face consequences for his fast lifestyle. I also like Ebi’s traits that come from an absent mother and being raised by 3 men and a teenage girl. I imagine she’d end up sort of like noodle, independent and not afraid to get in a fight. I also like the idea of her being a lot like her dad emotionally no matter how much she insists she isn’t him. She knows he’s a terrible man but he’s her dad who raised her into the woman she is, he’s kind of all she can lean on and the same goes for him. they’re each other’s solace.
I also like the idea of Ebi’s mother showing up again once she’s older. But… to what ends? Is she after a slice of Murdoc’s wealth? Does she just wanna reconnect? I imagine either way Ebi would hate it though. I think she would have pushed down the childish hope that her mum would come home one day and pushed deeper the idea that she’d have loved her. But Ebi’s mum showing up again would definitely rattle some cages. Murdoc wouldn’t be interested in being with her anymore, he’s very much a bit it and quit it guy (ignores phase 7 lore). Ebi would need some convincing on accepting her after she’d been gone so long. Surely she’d wonder why her mum didn’t try to stay with Murdoc so they could be a family or why she just left her with her dad so they could fend for themselves.
The truth of it all is that Ebi’s mum was just a one night stand that Murdoc forgot to pull out from. She carried his baby to term but wasn’t financially able to look after it so she left it with Murdoc (she knew he was rich which was at least a better spot than she was in). It eats her up inside that she never got to see her child grow up and she isn’t even sure that she made the right decision leaving her. what happens from there idk but those r my ideas anyway!
At this point the most id do is design her mum cause that sounds fun. Idk if i’ll ever draw them interacting, it would be an argument if i did hahha
murdknux フォローwonderer125blogからの質問:Does Phase 3 still go pretty badly in the Murdad AU? :(TW: child neglecty GOOD QUESTION i’ve been wanting to put to paper my ideas for how to approach.., that phase. she’d be around 7-8 in pbEbi gets taken along w 2D to plastic beach cause Murdoc truly believes it will be gorillaz base camp #1 ( he gen doesn’t consider that this could be a terrible idea). Murdoc and 2D are constantly at war with each other when 2D isn’t locked in his room. Ebi never knew her mother and the only vaguely motherly figure in her life is 2D and to see him be treated so terribly changes the way she sees Murdoc forever. On top of that, she misses Russel a lot in his absence as well as Noodle who’s basically her big sister. Seeing Noodle replaced w a cyborg messes her up a lot too (she can vaguely understand that the real noodle might be dead). Even years past plastic beach, even after 2D sort of forgives Murdoc, she still never forgives him for putting everybody through that. She hates the plastic beach album for the memories. But she doesn’t utterly hate Murdoc. All that time he still treated her kindly and like a father should but all she saw was the pain around her that he caused. So yeah, i’m personally of the belief that pb deeply psychologically affected the whole band so it’s only fair i make it part of Ebi’s childhood trauma #gorillaz au
murdknux フォローwonderer125blogからの質問:When was the first time Murdoc grew soft for his kid and started letting his guard down and accepting his new family member?to give a long answer: Murdoc really never wanted a child. In essence he’s just afraid of being like his father. The lack of love he was shown as a child was sure to rub off on him as a father should he ever become one (in his logic which is pretty sound). So when he suddenly has this innocent little thing to be responsible for when he’s just broken into superstardom it’s literally the worst time for him to have to pony up and be responsible. Unfortunately he stays pretty stubborn up until the kid is almost a year old and the rest of the band takes care of her (hell, he doesn’t even name her noodle does). But after Ebi becomes a little more aware of things around her and wonders who the strange man who doesn’t like to hold her is he begins to soften seeing that she craves his attention and is confused as to why she can’t get it. I guess he reflects a bit and realises she’s just a baby and has no idea that her dad is famous and busy and that none of it matters cause he’s supposed to raise her like a father should. And not that it happens often but he feels pretty awful because in a way he ended up becoming like his father while actively trying to avoid that outcome, a callous, absent male figure to a child who needs him. So yeah he ends up becoming totally obsessed with her. He dresses her in her own style, he takes her on walks and picks her up when she asks him, he remembers her first words and how many steps she took the first time she walked. And yeah!also ty for being interested in this au! i was afraid no one would be into conflicted-but-eventually-doting murdad but i guess i’m wrong! i’ll draw more of them bonding when i get the chance #gorillaz au
murdknux がリブログしました: snobgoblin フォローAce over Noodles body 👆 #this is so important to me#look
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