hiii op i'm sorry this took SOOO long. i'm just indecisive pretty much. LOL. so. facts about tweek. let's give it a try!

to be honest... when i (jas, hi) first started writing tweek with blue, i wasn't really sure what to do. LOL. i was primarily used to writing stan and kenny, and other characters (craig, kyle) became easier to write over time. but tweek??? tweek was something i had to throw myself into headfirst, pretty much. and for a character that doesn't have a whole lot of insight, it was really difficult.

i forewent the whole... ‘voice tics’ thing as a rule, because it's jarring to read in text (to me), and makes tweek seem more like a caricature than a person. what i ended up doing instead, since he has these in the show, was repetition. :)!! along with abrupt stops, lapses in speaking, etc. it's easier, and it's a lot more natural imo, especially when you're writing an older character who has outgrown their childlike tendencies.

EXAMPLE:

Tweek has a bad habit. Like, criminally. Like, he should be serving prison time, if they even do that. Do they try 17 year olds as adults? He's not sure. He should look that up, probably, yes. He should. But not right now, no, not right now.

DIALOGUE EXAMPLES:

“My—? Oh, oh. It's Tweek. Tweek Tweak, really, but—”

“If you like it, you could come back. If you want to, of course. I just — For free. Well, obviously, but I mean you could pick something... Uh, maybe — if I could have your name?” [...] “Just to remember you. If you do.”

stuff like that! it's clear that he struggles to communicate. not just through speech in general, but the right words evade him, you know? it's frustrating. and tweek has a tendency to get fixated on things, to the point of his detriment. which makes it even more frustrating because!!! the words aren't coming out right!!! on that note—apart from adhd for tweek, i like to write him with ocd :,) which is also something i like for kyle. two sides... same coin...

i'm particularly drawn to characters that i can see myself in, so it's easy to sort of... lean into them. i guess! anyway. another thing i like for tweek, is that this ^^^ these speech habits, don't really apply when he's determined about something. like, dead set on it, or, he's thought about it so much that there's nothing left to say. there's only what he can do.

re: picking up a bazooka to save his friends. LOL.

EXAMPLES:

“I started a couple years ago, when I was eighteen. Pencil at first, but my hands—” Tweek wiggles his fingers at Kyle. “—shake too much. Wasn't all that pretty. And a couple months after Craig and I broke up, I bought charcoal sticks. Suddenly, my hands weren't all that useless.”

“You have to face it, too, Craig. Whatever it is. You know you can. And I know you can.”

in turn, i think this is also how it is for him during sex. not in the very beginning, when he hasn't really focused yet, but in the middle, up to the end? yes. confident!!! or moreso, completely fixated.

and i looove to write fixated tweek!!! specifically for kyle, because he gets so worked up about him that it's incredibly endearing. but, i also like to write it as a peek into his mind. how fucked up it can be in there, what he thinks about when no one is looking.

EXAMPLE:

His eyes wander somewhere to the side of Kyle. He can see it. Just up against the wall. All of the walls in this room, actually. Blood. Dark streaks of crimson dripping down until it pools on the floor. Slippery, but sticky, like it can’t make its mind up. The smell of rust so thick that he can still taste it in the air. He can feel it, too. The way it stuck to his skin for hours afterwards, no matter how hard he scrubbed his skin, how raw it became. Craig couldn’t get it off of him either. That’s what he said. Or, something along those lines.

“There’s nothing there, Tweek. It’s over.”

Is it? He can still feel it. If he sits still long enough.

“Can you hear me? Tweek—”

teehee i love to put tweek through stuff!!! i think his monologue is very interesting, because it's like, tweek actively represses these things. his needs are hardly ever met, so why bother? and he shoves it down, down, down, until he ends up exploding. (before kyle, that is. because kyle listens.)

that's actually one of the reasons why i don't enjoy cr//eek, because craig just… doesn't get tweek. it's not like he doesn't try, and it's not like he doesn't care about him, because neither of those things are true. i think that craig gets very good at anticipating tweek's wants and his needs, but it's not intuitive. it's more of a chore, more of an identity that craig is forced into. a caretaker.

and as tweek gets older... that sort of thing that was fine when he was a kid... isn't so nice anymore. it's suffocating. it's debilitating. wanting to do something on your own, and this person is controlling your every move. even if it's unintentionally. it sucks. and it sucks even more because it only reminds you of your dad and growing up seems to mean that they just can't make themselves fit like they used to. you know?

EXAMPLE:

Maybe that’s why so many of the past years are shrouded in fog, blurry and unfocused. Isolated with work and Craig. Stuck in their paper house that always smelt of smoke, like it was burning beneath their feet.

Craig listened to his ramblings. He did. When the words would spill out like water, lest they fill Tweek up and drown him from the inside out. But it was always with a cold sort of detachment, because Craig liked to solve problems. Action. Resolution. He never would have said something like this to him. If it could be fixed, why dwell? If it couldn’t, why not let it go?

of course, tweek pulling away doesn't make it easy for craig, either. craig clings on tight because he doesn't know anything else, and the thought of trying to? well, that's fucking scary. and it's just as scary for tweek, but it's even scarier to be stuck in one place. with both of these things set on the same scale, tweek will choose to flee. every single time. every one.

anyway… i love tweek having lots of interests :) you could make a case for him being interested in just about anything, it feels like. but i love building models for him!!! i love art for him!!! especially messy, hands-on kinds of art where he can be as erratic as he needs to be. charcoal… pastels… flinging paint at a canvas. PIANO!!! there's so, so much that goes into learning the keys, how to use them, how to put feeling behind it.

i think tweek likes things that are hard, to be honest. difficult. puzzles… kyle… it makes it more… gratifying when he finally cracks something. when it satisfies that itch under his skin. another thing i love is drummer tweek (and drummer craig!) because it's a lot harder than it looks. and it's a great way to expend energy :,))

uuuh. other facts. hm. i think tweeky likes snakes (goes with the whole exotic pet thing, like his bird) and also i love snakes. so. you know. ball python owner tweeky is real to me! tweek is someone who puts his all into everything, even if he really fucking sucks at it. you know? there's plenty of things that he hangs up when they're no longer fun, or when they're just too hard to keep going. but. yeah. whatever tweek is into, he's gonna get good at it, or he's gonna get really good at being bad at it, but it's important to him. because it was something he chose. something that's his.

tweeky's my little guy… i love him a whole lot :,) ofc i love brown ends in his hair for him and i love tattoos for him because abused kids have a higher pain tolerance and in a much stronger way, it's taking back what you never felt was truly yours. your body. your mind, yourself. everything.

i think he's got a real sleeper build going on, he's much stronger than he looks. all those years of coffee beans against his back… yeah… um. i think, most importantly, control is very important to tweek. not in a ‘control freak’ way like kyle can be, but in a ‘i need to feel like i can leave at any time’ way. which makes it all the more easy to lose himself in something, or someone. because his guard is down. top tweek forever and ever…

hmmmm… there's probably more i'll think about after the fact. but i like rotating this guy around in my head. love character analysis... thought pieces... so. thanks, op!!! sorry for the wall of text and i hope this helped :,)

TLDR: ???

• real ocd haver
• adhd so true :,(
• cr//eek can never work because they’re simultaneously too similar and too different to do so
• but they're besties forever and ever and they'll always speak to each other in a way no two exes ever have or will
• tweek is prone to feeling suffocated, comes with the ~trauma
• interests galore
• DRUMMER BOY 🫵🏻
• snake enjoyer tweeky
• kyle makes him feel free…
• sleeper build let's go
• my little baby boy my son ilu