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Tweek and Craig actually DOESN'T love eachother (Theory)

Disclaimer:

I don't hate Creek, i do it because i have some things to say about this ship with stuff i saw in the show while i analised them. And this is just a theory so you don't have to take the whole post seriusly because i dont saying that that is canon even it looks like it is. And this theory is exclusively about the show, not focused in the fandom. Enjoy!

1- Tweek and Craig episode retrospective

All of us know that this ship became canon. But at the beginging, they weren't a couple yet, they were angry, because the asian girls were very obcessed with them that they shipped them and that obseccion gone to the South Park townsfolks. And they were affected and uncomfortable by the massive attention they received from people, and they even told that problem to the PC Principal to solve it, but he instead told them something about have consensed sex, nothing related to their actual issues (Not even their parents tried to avoid the harassment).

But since in that same episode that issue affected them so hard to the point of not getting back together, faking a breakup so that no one would say anything about them, but anyway it got worse because people thought that Craig was mean for doing that to Tweek. And even they fighted in school in front of many people for the frustration that it caused to them and how they screwed it up.

They also had too much issues for doing that, especially Craig, who has the idea to fake a break up, and then they threw shit at them for not being the perfect couple that the whole town idealized and wanted to have, and therefore, to stop them from throwing shit at Tweek and Craig, they got back together so the people leave them alone comfirming their toughts (social pressure). But they only looked happy being toghether because South Park people are watching them and they wanted them to be happy or maybe because they are getting used for it even if they arent interesed in that.

2-First interactions

If they were actually interesed on each other, they were a couple much before that episode, but they didnt it even when their first appearence where in the seasons 2 and 3. In fact, in their first interaction, they even arent friends. And they met each other when the boys incited them to had a fight in school, and they fought and ended in the hospital at the end. And after that episode, their only apparences toghether were just a few cameos, and in most of the scenes it shows that Tweek and Craig arent toghether. And it was in many many seasons ago before season 19 when the ship becames canon.

Even relationships like Stendy and Clybe had a quick development since their first seasons because they had know much better and had a much closer relationships since they know eachother, even a rivalty like Cartman and Kyle duo had many aparences cuz they knew each other before and were very closer so it can work since the first South Park episode. Tweek and Craig relationship didnt work at the starting cuz they havent met and they weren't closer to have a relationship. So the consequences are that they were tricked by the other boys into thinking that they knew Craig and Tweek well because they claimed things about them that weren't true and the other believed it, creating a wrong view of them when they didn't know each other and creating a rivalry based on lies that they believed. And that's not how a strong relationship can be built.

3-Next interactions

A few moments after they had toghether in screen in a very few episodes episodes or games. But since season 22 are much more separated from themselves than you would expect from a ship as beloved as this, and even in cameos, as in Not Suitable for Children (Tweek with Cartman's affinity group without Craig), Cupid Ye (Craig was sitting in music class with Scott Malkinson instead Tweek), in Pijama Day (Creig doesnt sit with Tweek in the class), in Let them Eat Goo (In any cameo, Craig isnt with Tweek), In The Scoots (Craig isnt with Tweek in any cameo, neither in the scen when the kids show their costumes in the classroom), in a Nightmare on Facetime (Creig gone to the costume party without Tweek, he was with Butters instead) and more. Their last aparicion were in Post Covid, but they even dont hold their hands, they were just like incidental characters like they were just friends.... But let's explain something, in season 21 there were some interactions between them as a couple, but only were incidental moments, and most of the time they did it when they were in public and if they did it on their homes, is when their families are there. And in most of their interactions they werent too happy when teire together like Wendy and Stan, Bebe and Clyde, Gay Al and Mr Slave, and Mr Garrison and his boyfriend since season 25. And the few current moments that theire together since season 22 are just cameos, a few.

In Put it Down episode, Tweek was scared when he tought that the koreans would nuke South Park and when he was scared, Craig tried to comfort him many times, but it didnt work at the point of being angry because Tweek didnt have patience with him and he didnt let Craig to help him even when they were boyfriends and boyfriends help themselves, he bought spinners to him, he suggested him to make cupcakes, but he still didnt let him to confort him and Tweek was angry because he tought that Craig didnt help him. And the last time Craig did it, it worked, and they were satisfied of theyselves, but it doesnt mean that all the prosses of it made Craig to get more tired, and he was happy because at least his comfort worked at the end and Tweek was happy because he noticed that koreans wont nuke South Park or something. And they sang in front of the school at the end.

And in Fractured But Whole, game that was released during the season 21, Tweek and Craig break up because Tweek were becoming annoyng because of his anxiety and for that Craig were more centred in his guinea pig pet, and the new kid's quest was bring them toghether again until they arent think so. If they really wanted to stay toghether again, they would made it for themselves. In real life bring a couple toghether never would work because the couple had marked by the hate so much that they had their reasons for why they broke up, and some words never would work because they had their own reasons of why they broke up, they thought in the reasons, and they tought if they can break up or not. Like Heidi with Cartman, we know why they broke up and she tought in that since she noticed that she was turning into a second Cartman, the issues that turned her into that, and why Cartman did that, and even Kyle tried to do separate her from Cartman, she didnt acept it because Kyle only talked about she has to break up with Cartman, and he involuntary forced her to stay with him, but she wasnt clear about her relationship with Cartman. And you can convince people because they tought too much for their convictions and had the stupp for having it strong like other people, and they only change when they think again, but is really dificult, and imposible during a break up. And i want to mention that in Tweeks last aparitions he's chill and calm, even without Craig, like in Not Suitable for Children, and in other moments and cameos.

4-The theory

All the stuff i put there are my proof and arguments that support my theory and so you can clearly know why i think so. My theory is that Tweek and Craig doesnt love eachother as a couple, because all the romantic stuff when they are the main characters, are full of conflicts ans issues between them when they are toghether. I know that couples have issues and conflicts between them, but couples havent that troubles all the time, neither Cartman and Heidi started like that. And that stuff is because Tweek and Craig were umcomforted as a couple and they want to be watched as friends or maybe classmates, and that comfort has shown since the starting of the "Tweek and Craig" episode when the ship becames canon.

They were uncomfort when they were shown as a romantic couple, they wanted to act for not being watched as a couple more, and they asked for help fot that, but nobody wanted to see the real problem inside that because they were more focused on their silly fantasies instead of the feelings of them about that and the unconfort of being indicated for being the boyfriend of someone and how it feels being pointed in front of everyone and being stalked and harrased for being that. And about when they were really unconforted about people telling other people that they were a couple and people telling to them that they love eachother, and when they tried to show all the people that they arent the couple that they fantasized and idealized, the people get pissed of because they didnt want to fulfill their fantasies and toughts about them being a couple, and they became together because they wanted people to stop harassing them and wanting them to confirm their toughts.

And in next episodes and moments, thay acted like a couple because they know that people still happy for having them together and they still interesed in them, and they did things like putting names eachother and hanging out together in front of people so they dont get upset if they arent acting like a couple, and in Fractured But Whole they break up, but new kid's mission were bringing them together because some people in South Park were sad or upsetd about they being separated, even some of the fans out of the game were like that, but still with the hope that they would together again. But when they noticed that people are stopping to get interesed in them, they took advatage in that so they can be free and do wathever they want without being judged or being forced to stay togheter again and proof that they arent toghether now are the moments i shown like Cupid Ye and Not Suitable for Children, and other media thet i mentionated in the third part. And in the few cameos are together because are just friends or by chance, like the cameos when Cartman is sitting with Butters in the classroom or in the cafeteria altroug not being a canon couple. And in Post Covid, they were together because after so long without seeing each other, they came together to commemorate their past moments and remember each other again, like a reunion of friends.

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