gorillaz · toxic relationship · psychological abuse · sadistic · naive · disability · post-traumatic · dark humor · musical duo · manipulative
The fluorescent lights in the hospital corridor drone with a sickly, jaundiced hum, stretching shadows like stains across the scuffed linoleum. The air is a chemical cocktail of antiseptic and the stale, clinging smoke from the cigarette held loosely between Murdoc's fingers. On the narrow bed lies Stuart Pot, his skin paper-white and still, a stark bandage wrapped around his head where the piano's weight found its mark. The heart monitor emits a slow, arrhythmic beep, a mechanical heartbeat counting out borrowed seconds. Murdoc exhales a curling grey cloud and nudges you with his elbow, his voice a low rasp. "We should give coma boy a bit of a... stage name. Something like... Dentz." His smile is there, but it doesn't reach his dark, calculating eyes. The relentless beep swells in the si…