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Chapter 10 of Nobody’s Child out now

BOY DO I!!!

Murdoc:

1. Kiss Me, Son of God by They Might be Giants

2. Sailor Song by Autoheart

3. Satan is My Motor by CAKE

4. Bundle of Joy by The Dean Ween Group

5. The First Step by Will Wood and The Tapeworms

6. Against the Kitchen Floor by Will Wood

7. I am the Mud by Cheap Teeth

8. Hoist that Rag by Tom Waits

9. This Hurts by Mindless Self Indulgence

10. Masochism Tango by Tom Lehrer

2D:

1. Blues Before and After by The Smithereens

2. Even if you Don’t by Ween

3. Lent by Autoheart

4. Human Fly by the Cramps

5. Mr Loverman by Ricky Montgomery

6. Pink Shoe Laces by Dodie Stevens

7. Never Let Me Down Again by Depeche Mode

8. Au Revoir (Adios) by the Front Bottoms

9. Not if you were the last junkie on earth by The Dandy Warhols

10. Two Time by Jack Stauber

Russel:

1. Baby You’re a Haunted House by Gerard Way

2. Amigo by Fish in a Birdcage

3. Blasphemous Rumors by Depeche Mode

4. Sex with a Ghost by Teddy Hyde

5. Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy by Queen

6. None Shall Pass by Aesop Rock

7. The Mind Electric by Miracle Musical

8. Under my Skin by Jukebox the Ghost

9. Agoraphobia by Autoheart

10. 19.10 by Childish Gambino

Noodle:

1. Homecoming Serf by Sidney Gish

2. Seether by Veruca Salt

3. Change by Cable Ties

4. Potato Song by Kesha

5. Fear of Dying by Poppy

6. Real Men by Mitski

7. Deceptacon by Le Tigre

8. Chicken Noodle by Small Crush

9. Guiltless by Dodie

Girl (gender neutral) this is the Murdoc Enjoyer blog. He’s my favorite for the same reasons as everyone else: because I have a normal and uncomplicated relationship to my dad he’s a silly little guy :)

Fine here’s an actual answer:

Him being goofy is such a core element of his character that is frustrating when people don’t include it in their characterization. It’s what makes him so enjoyable rather than just being an asshole. It makes him more non-threatening— whether it’s because he’s full of shit, playing the fool on purpose, or him just naturally being a little goober. He’s a clown first and a musician second. In phase 1 Noodle says she likes that he makes her laugh and it could partially be her not taking him seriously, but also we see him trying to make people laugh all the time (you especially see it when Phil Cornwell is just improving and doesn’t have a strict script).

It makes it fully believable people would like him. Funny guys win. It makes people let their guard down, and it makes it easy to control how people see you.

He’s also motivated by a desperate need for control— keeping 2D close, spinning lie after lie to maintain attention and keep his true self nebulous, his fear of his bandmates leaving him behind. And it drives him whether he wants to be loved or feared. His ego crumbles any time that control is threatened and it makes him willing to change tactics to maintain it— so he’ll start yelling and throwing things *or* cry at your feet if one of those will get him what he wants.

What also sets him apart from other “asshole man” characters is that he’s not really behooved to prove his masculinity. Like obviously him wearing thongs and wanting to be strung up by a dominatrix and doing drag (him doing queer shit, essentially) is meant to be funny but also. I just like that he’s not ashamed of those things. He’s not in the closet, not out of the closet, but a secret third thing: “what’s it to ya.”

The scrunglydoo onglydoople

Murdoc niccals. Drag queen. MAKE MURDOC A DRAG QUEEN‼️

Helping them beat a hard level

I miss when 2D’s pants were up to his nipples

Follow your dreams

Late to the game but here’s my own design for Moonflower. Bestie Kat and I essentially rewrote the plot of The Last Cult last year and it’s what I’ve decided to believe is real.

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Murdoc joins the cult instead of 2D because he wants to continue his legacy forever through immortality. At first he believes he’s doing it for the sake of the band so they can get in on it too, but ends up neglecting the band in favor of the cult.

Moonflower is a silent film actress whose roles began to dwindle as she got older, and upon discovery of a secret to immortality, has halted her aging process and formed the Forever Cult, but wants to turn back the clock and reverse aging, but needs help getting the power to do so.

Immortality is maintained through human sacrifices, so Murdoc and Moonflower join forces to sacrifice influencers and on-the-street “comedians.”

Moonflower insists that sacrificing 2D will bring them the eternal youth they want, so Murdoc has to choose between sacrificing 2D and the chance to maintain his fame and legacy forever

If anyone’s curious about more of it maybe it’ll motivate me to finish writing the outline

I have thought about it and played with it, I just don’t do much with it cuz Siggy is 5 years younger so it’s juuuust enough to not be able to do much with them when they’re younger. Also Siggy had to meet him when he’s old and slightly more domesticated cuz she wouldn’t put up with him if she met him any earlier.

But if they did meet as kids, she’d play too rough with him but fight anyone who’s mean to him.

Siggy is not particularly physically strong now but as a kid she was the tallest girl in her class and therefore had a size advantage. She would have flung him around like a rag doll

They’d make “potions” behind the school together with mud and leaves

Their meeting would have gone something like: “why are you green? That’s weird. Wanna see me do a cartwheel? *tries and falls over*”