Guys! I’m back✨ with more HC!✨✨
✨Gorillaz Headcannons✨ (phase 2)
So everyone knows demon days was the main album that got gorillaz fully sky rocketing to the big top stage on every platform and playlist, but. Did everyone else think about how much of a power trip this will become (not to Russel or noodle, just murdoc and 2D)
I feel like during this phase, 2d gain some confidence in from that album, he’s in the big leagues now! Big shot on every page. You can not tell me he didn’t started ego tripping from this whole thing (he was still a young adult and honestly i would be the same 😭) the fame got in his head quickly then anyone else could. If he wanted to party and drink and snort up some white powder, then he can! And no one can tell him otherwise.
2D was still young and impressionable adult man (even with the multiple head injury’s) so he would make a insensitive comment here and their without it being pointed out hard like murdoc was, he built this whole persona of being the front singer pretty boy that couldn’t do no wrong that he slightly abused this power a bit during interviews, photo shoots, and etc. i fully believe he still had a childish teenage boy mentality even before the accident form murdoc car but simply abused the power of being disabled now.
murdoc started abusing 2D way more after this, his little oblivious brain dead servant growing confidence? Not on murdoc watch when he’s the real leader of gorillaz! (in his words) i heavily believe he knows that hitting 2D in the back of the head often would keep the blood in his head and making him a bit more slow like usual and obedient. And murdoc would do this often too! For when they have a photo shoot or for fun.
I believe off screen 2D and murdoc would fight A lot during this phase, it was only when 2d has less blood in his head like usual that he would act out and actually defend himself a little. Murdoc would often win since he literally is older and have more experience in fights then 2d pampered and loving childhood life. But in silent rare moments where they both got done almost killing each other, they would simply smoke a blunt together and call it a day (Russel is so sick of them)
Russel is the designated driver. I have nothing more to say but to state the obvious
I fully believe noodle would sleep in the tour van or backstage since she was too young at the time to even go to the after parties (one time, murdoc literally forgot about her when drunk and it took ever ounce of patience Russel had to not smack the hell out of him)
Speaking of noodle, I feel like during this phase noodle forces herself to grow up more. Like, look at all the adults around her, she has a every day drunk and violent uncle (Murdoc), a literal drugged junkie brother (2D), and a older man that she could call of a father figure not being able to control and handle his grief of his dead best friend (Russel)
Since noodle made herself the proper adult in the house (even tho she was simply a teenager) she would find herself wondering off on her own often, her leaving home to do whatever she wanted (and to get out of that mad house she calls home) to do her own thing, of course Russel immediately horrified when he found out about it months later
I think during this phase, Russel had enough of being the main babysitter of 2D and murdoc bullshit. Grown man but fighting like children on the pettiest things, he started focus more on himself and specifically to noodle since she grown this “I have to do everything around here!” Mentality
When noodle was going through puberty, it was simply pure hell, none of them had no idea what to do with a 13 year old girl going through puberty so their best option was the internet (which was still quite a bit new at the time) they showed they care in weird ways, 2d buying every pad’s in the store for her, Russel would try to cook her something to help her through it, and murdoc, he simply doesn’t care and for her to tough it out, he would probably make insensitive jokes like “getting kick in the balls is worser!” Or “what you’re problem? A period can’t be that bad” 99% of the times ends with something heavy getting thrown at him (but at the dead of nights, he would make a cup of tea and place a heated blanket on her bed before she goes to her room, noodle knows it’s him but doesn’t say anything to the prideful satanist)
They would still baby noodle even tho she much older now and she still hates it (when she was younger, they would simply pick her up and put her in air jail. Now, they can’t anymore) 2d would simply ignore her when she makes comments on his bad behavior and how much he becoming like murdoc slowly, while murdoc simply teased her until she gets violent. Russel would listen but won’t do any of her suggestions she gives him and go back to the loop of grief he was in before.
Noodle would cussed under her breath in Japanese, and the only person who would understand it would be murdoc ( he made sure to know every slur and cussed word in Japanese just so he can say to it people, he’s hateful to all varieties✨)
Hi!✨ I’m weirdly proud about this HC and I’m super excited for pre phase 3 and phase 3 in it full whole
I try my best to not look at the gorillaz characters as not only just mascots to the band, but more of individuals with their own flaws and weaknesses and reasons of being like this (plus, I’m pretty sure me targeting 2D was mostly me not liking people babying 2d in the earlier phases, I’m no 2d hater I swear!!🙏🏾)