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'''Basic Trope:''' An entity has gems growing on their body.
* '''Straight:''' Ruby the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragon]] has crystal horns.
* '''Exaggerated:'''
** Ruby's horns, scales, teeth and claws are crystal.
** [[CrystallineCreature Ruby's entire body is made of gems.]]
* '''Downplayed:''' Ruby has a tiny crystal scale.
* '''Justified:''' This is a result of her diet, which [[EatDirtCheap consists largely of gems and minerals]].
* '''Inverted:''' An EldritchLocation has clusters of flesh and bone growing out of the rocks.
* '''Subverted:''' The horns are prosthetics, because she lost her real ones in battle.
* '''Double Subverted:''' Her real horns were also crystalline.
* '''Parodied:''' ???
* '''Zig Zagged:''' Ruby's crystal horns are prosthetics, but it turns out her real ones were also gems. She finds a healer who makes them grow back, although the new ones are bony rather than crystalline. However, they [[BodyToJewel turn into gems over time]].
* '''Averted:''' Ruby doesn't have gems on her body.
* '''Enforced:''' RuleOfCool
* '''Invoked:''' Ruby has gem scales magically fused to her body to strengthen her defenses.
* '''Defied:''' Ruby breaks her horns off because she doesn't want to be hunted for them.
* '''Lampshaded:''' "Creatures with crystals growing on them? Now I've seen everything."
* '''Discussed:''' ???
* '''Conversed:''' ???
* '''Deconstructed:''' Dragons are hunted to extinction for their valuable gems.
* '''Reconstructed:''' The gems are sharp, tough [[NaturalWeapon natural weapons]], so few people foolish enough to hunt dragons live to tell the tale (bonus points if [[PowerCrystal the gems amplify draconic magic]]). Alternately, dragons are a protected species and it's illegal to hunt them.
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