#//physical abuse is one of those narratives that NOBODY wants to touch with a 10-ft pole which ok fine

[troublcmakcrs]

Has Tweek ever struck someone in anger?

Yes -- sorry, Craig... haha!

Before they were together, Tweek and Craig beat the shit out of each other severely enough to put each other in the hospital. Then, when they were in the hospital, Tweek got out of bed and instigated another fight with Craig, enraged over something the main boys claimed Craig said about him. This was not the last fight the two of them got into in elementary school, either.

When the two of them got together, they mellowed out a little bit. However, the resentment over their situation resulted in rising tensions between each other, and in middle school, things escalated to violence between them again.

Tweek was the first one to lash out, not fully lucid at the time, scratching Craig's face while in the middle of a breakdown. Craig was quick to forgive Tweek for this, saying he didn't realize what he was doing and, therefore, could not be blamed.

However, while it started that way, Tweek soon figured out that violence felt good. It was a language people would actually listen to, after he spent years trying less severe ways of making his voice heard. He was frustrated, and he wanted to tear things apart, and the only things in arm's reach were himself and Craig.

Craig feels awful about his eventual retaliation, and he will defend Tweek's violence, saying he didn't know better. He has an excuse, unlike Craig. But if you ask Tweek, he will be remarkably candid about how intentional his abuse toward Craig was, and he will laugh and say that Craig "got him back good."

They put each other in the hospital again at 15, which is what led to their breakup.

In elementary school, Tweek was one of the least violent kids in school, often avoiding confrontation entirely. It scared him, and when he did get into scraps, he was rarely ever the instigator, usually just defending himself against the other children.

As he ages, Tweek becomes more prone to lashing out violently, or at least threatening people when they provoke him. He is no longer terrified of confrontation and, in fact, becomes very strong-willed as an adult -- at what cost to everyone else, though? Ha!

His teen and early adult verses see him much more willing to start fights with the people who anger him, and he doesn't fight clean, either. In his later adult verse, he mellows out a little bit into a "do no harm but take no shit" kind of person. He learns to assert himself more without the use of violence, but he's still not against it in more extreme cases.