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The Tribe of Twinkling Crystals (2017-Present) is an Instagram-based single-rp roleplay loosely based on the Warrior Cats series. Rather than focusing on Clans, like the books, the Tribe is a group of cats similar to the proto-Tribe of Rushing Water seen in the Dawn of the Clans arc of the series and is set in the New Zealand Glowworm Caves.

The roleplay starts out with the ruins of a previously great Tribe beginning to rebuild themselves under the leadership of Snow Bird, daughter of the previous Stoneteller, Fallen Snow. What happens next is directly in the paws of the roleplayers.

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The Tribe of Twinkling Crystals contains examples of:

• Action Girl:
  • Almost all of the she-cats fit into this category. They are just as competent and important as the toms.
• Action Mom:
  • The queens, full stop. They even manage to take on freaking wolves to defend their young.
• After Action Patch Up:
  • Happens after any sort of fighting.
• All There in the Manual:
  • Understandable, as this is an Instagram based roleplay. Things like character motivations or family trees can be found on most Tribe cat accounts, while world building and Tribe history can be found on the Tribe account itself.
• Alternate Animal Affection:
  • Cats that are emotionally close tend to lick each other, entwine their tails, and press cheeks together, regardless of the relationship being platonic or romantic.
• Ambiguously Gay:
  • Salted Rain, Drowned Mask, Dove Breeze, and Curled Shell
    • Their rpers have confirmed that they are gay, but as for the actually roleplay none of them realize this or have come out yet.
• Animal Talk:
  • The cats speak English, but other animals have their own "languages"and are all unintelligible to each other
• Back Story:
  • Most cat's accounts have some form of this
• Bears Are Bad News:
  • Fallen Snow, the father of Snow Bird and Bee Sting and the previous Stoneteller, was killed by a bear.
• Berserk Button:
  • don't threaten those Bee Sting cares about
• Betrayal by Inaction:
  • Buck Leap blames Osprey Wing for not saving his friend Icicle Branch, a fellow to-be who had died falling through thin ice while on a patrol Osprey was on. He apologizes later, though.
• Blood from the Mouth:
  • During Flaming Breeze's kitting, Dusty Rose is mentioned to be bleeding from the mouth from the wolf fight as she helps deliver the kits.
• Break the Cutie:
  • ooo boy
  • Osprey Wing starts out as an eager, happy-go-lucky young to-be. After losing an eye during a wolf attack, she suffers from anxiety and PTSD. Then a fellow to-be, Icicle Branch, falls through thin ice and drowns with Osprey unable to save her. Just as she's starting to pick herself up and move on with her life, she is assaulted and impregnated, and loses two of her kits in a blizzard.
• Cats Have Nine Lives:
  • Averted. Unlike Clan leaders, who are granted nine lives by their warrior ancestors, the Tribe's Stonetellers only have one life, just like any other cat.
• Children Are Innocent:
  • Most of the kits are innocent, energetic cats, although they do have a lot of premature growing up to do after the wolf attack. Some kits avert this trope by reaching something of angsty teen phase at four moons old.
• Child Soldiers:
  • Averted. Tribe kits start their training even later than Clan kits, at 8 moons instead of 6.
• Cold Snap:
  • The Tribe lives in New Zealand. Winters are cold and dangerous.
• Colourful Theme Naming:
  • Some cats have colors in the first part of their name,such as White Owl or Violet Breeze.
• Covered with Scars:
  • With predators like wolves and coyotes, this is bound to happen.
• A Crack in the Ice:
  • Icicle Branch, the first cat to die within the roleplay, drowns after falling through thin ice.
• Crash-Into Hello:
  • Fox Tooth does this to his much smaller sister, Small Flower.
    • In turn, Small Flower likes to do this to her best friend, Cherry Flower. Both examples are friendly examples of this trope.
  • Osprey Wing is returning to camp after hunting and crashes into a wolf resulting in a near-deadly battle.
• Crisis of Faith:
  • One of the reasons the old Tribe collapsed. The cats turned their back on their religion.
• Cultural Translation:
  • While the Tribe is definitely a Tribe, they do take some cultural inspiration from the Clans that border them, such as the Stoneteller and healer being two different cats.
• The Cutie:
  • Cherry Flower is a precious child. Her optimism and friendliness make her a very likeable cat. She's sweet and kind and even the most serious cats seem to regard her as the embodiment of all good things in the world.
• Dark and Troubled Past:
  • Many cats have one.
  • Bee Sting and Snow Bird watched their father Fallen Snow get mauled by a bear on their first time out of the nursery
  • Dove Breeze was ejected from her former clan for unknown reasons, and her leaving was supported by her own parents. She eventually made the long trek up to the tribe in hope of harboring her and her sister, Robinbreeze, who subsequently followed Dove Breeze there, but died mid-journey (according to Dove Breeze she perished due to a lethal wolf attack).
• A Day in the Limelight:
  • A lot of roleplayers write short stories about their characters that fall into this category.
• Dead Guy Junior
  • The prefix 'Fallen-" is reserved for kits of Snow Bird and Bee Sting's bloodlines, in remembrance of their father, Fallen Snow.
• Eye Scream:
  • Osprey Wing's eye is ripped out of her head by a wolf.
• Facial Horror:
  • See Eye Scream above
• Failure-to-Save Murder:
  • Buck Leap accuses Osprey Wing of this after she fails to save his friend Icicle Branch from drowning after falling through thin ice. He really doesn't blame her, but was grief-stricken and needed someone to let out his anger on.
• Family-Unfriendly Violence:
  • Not any different from the Warriors series.
• Fantastic Measurement System:
  • Like the cats in the books, the units of measurement include mouse-lengths, tail-lengths, and fox-lengths
• Fantastic Naming Convention:
  • The Tribe cats have names similar to those of the Ancients and Dawn of the Clans cats, with two-word names. Unlike Clan cats, Tribe cats retain the same name their whole lives. Examples include Snow Bird, Bee Sting, and Osprey Wing.
    • Please note that proper Tribe of Twinkling Crystals names have a space between the words. It's Bat Ear or Raven Screech, not Batear or Ravenscreech.
• Feathered Fiend:
  • Birds such as eagles or hawks are considered dangerous, and great caution is to be taken while hunting them.
• Fiery Redhead:
  • Flaming Breeze is a ginger she-cat who is quite spirited
    • Her daughter Small Flower is white with ginger speckles, but she's very energetic and ambitious, and has no problem speaking her mind.
• First Snow:
  • Snow Bird's kits are born on the first snow of leaf-bare
• Flashback Nightmare
  • Most of the kits who witnessed the wolf attack suffer from these
  • Osprey Wing has these of the wolf attack as well
• Floral Theme Naming:
  • Since the characters name their children a lot of what they know from living in the wild, a lot of plant-based names spring up (no pun intended)
• Follow in My Footsteps:
  • Like her father Fallen Snow, Snow Bird becomes the Tribe's Stoneteller
• Gender Is No Object:
  • The only difference between toms and she-cats in the Tribe is that they can have kits. Gender equalizer is pretty much perfect.
• Goshdang It To Heck:
  • The characters are cats and have different curse words in their vocabulary.
• Happily Adopted:
  • Snow Bird's kits were fathered by a kittypet named Jake, Her new mate, a tom named Worm Tail, is most definitely the cat the kits consider their father.
  • Bee Sting finds two abandoned kits and raises them as his own. Upon becoming mates with Dusty Rose, he adopts her kits as well.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners;
  • Cherry Flower and Small Flower, despite the latter possibly harboring feelings for the former.
• Humans by Any Other Name:
  • Twolegs
• Hypocritical Heartwarming:
  • As a kit in her old tribe, Bright Star was this to her only friend, Sparkling Raindrop, but she eventually grew out of it.
• Make It Look Like an Accident:
  • After Bee Sting interrupts a fight between to-bes, Onyx Gaze defends his friend Buck Leap by spinning a story about Buck Leap trying to help Osprey Wing, not nearly killing her.
• Mama Bear:
  • When the wolves attack, the queens might be the most savage fighters, willing to protect the young kits in the nursery with their lives.
• Missing Mom:
  • Due to her position as Stoneteller, Snow Bird is not always around for her kits, leaving them to be cared for by other queens.

Characters

Since The Tribe of Twinkling Crystals is a roleplay, each character is created and controlled by a different person. A single user may have up to two characters in the Tribe, but when signups are closed, the only way to get into the Tribe is by kit tryouts.

Since the amount of characters at any given point is large, this page has been divided into sections based on their roles in the Tribe.

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Stonetellers, Deputies, and Healers

Fallen Snow

The previous Stoneteller of the Tribe of Twinkling Crystals and the father of Snow Bird and Bee Sting. He was killed moons before the start of the roleplay, mauled and killed by a bear on his kit's first day out of the nursery.

• Bears Are Bad News: Was mauled by one.
• Disappeared Dad: Died on the kit's first time out of the nursery.
• Famed In-Story: Regarded as a great leader by the Tribe he left behind, so much so that his prefix, Fallen-, is reserved by his descendants for his legacy.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Died offscreen long before the roleplay starts

Snow Bird

The current Stoneteller, Snow Bird is in the process of rebuilding her Tribe into the strong group of cats it was in her father's days as leader. Though unfortunately, being in charge of so many cats has taken a lot of her time away from her kits. She's a level-headed authority figure who is a fixture of stability for the struggling Tribe.

• Disappeared Dad: Her father died on her first day out of the nursery.
• Missing Mom: She doesn't mean to be distant, but being Stoneteller keeps her away from her kits to the point where it seems like she outright ignores them all except for Salted Rain.
• What the Hell, Hero?: The general reaction when she appointed her son Salted Rain healer to-be at only four moons old.

Salted Rain

The son of Snow Bird and a kittypet named Jake, Salted Rain was appointed healer-to-be at only four moons old. He's very laid back and soft-spoken, a hard worker, though a little unsure of himself, and an all around good cat.

• The Apprentice: To Lark Shadow
• Ambiguously Gay
• Young and in Charge: became a healer to-be several moons earlier than normal.

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