Fictional Biography
2D was born as Stuart Tusspot (later legally shortened to Pot) in the English county of Hertfordshire and raised in Crawley, West Sussex. His father David worked as a mechanic and fairground owner while his mother Rachel was a nurse. He hit his head as a child when falling from a tree, which caused his hair to fall out. When it grew back it was an azure blue. He did not put effort in at school and wondered what his career path would be. He first wanted to become a Storm Chaser and then he wanted to paint (inspired by Banksy's graffiti works). He developed an interest in machinery when he and his father customised his Casio VL-1 keyboard. His musical idol is Augustus Pablo and his favorite band is The Human League.
In 1997, Murdoc deliberately crashed his Vauxhall Astra through the wall of a keyboard shop where 2D was working, in an attempt to ram-raid it and steal the synths. Murdoc's bumper crashed into 2-D's face, landing him with an eight-ball fracture in his right eye ball, and putting him into a deep catatonic state. Murdoc was arrested for theft and forced to care for the vegetated Stu-Pot as part of his sentence. A year later, in Murdoc's failed attempt to impress some women in a Tesco car park, 2D smashed through the windscreen and hit the curb face-first, fracturing his other eyeball. This knocked him out of his coma and also earned him the nickname "2D" from Murdoc, short for "Two Dents". 2D and Noodle are the only left handed members of Gorillaz.
On the Gorillaz website it was recently stated by 2D, in the Plastic Beach adventure game, that Murdoc "kindly" had 2D gassed and shipped to Plastic Beach, where he was forced to sing for his new demos. He is currently living with his bandmates in an apartment in London, according to the DoYaThing video.
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