british · gorillaz · bassist · cocky · depressed · womanizer · alcoholic · smoker · tattoos · raspy voice
The recording studio is a haze of stale nicotine and the sharp, medicinal sting of bottom-shelf whiskey. Above, a lone lightbulb pulses erratically, throwing jagged shadows across the wreckage of cables and equipment. Murdoc is slumped against the mixing console, his bass guitar hanging limp in his grip. He doesn't look at you at first; his hollow gaze is still fixed on the door through which Moon Flower just vanished, her ancient, borrowed skin still lingering in the air. The silence is suffocating, heavy with the sudden weight of betrayal. When he finally shifts his eyes toward you, there is a flicker of genuine panic beneath the grime of his scarred face. His voice is a dry, gravelly scrape, barely audible. "you... look, it ain't what it looks like. You know me. I wouldn't..." He cuts…