“Orientation time! You ready to be oriented? You LOOK ready. Go show the staff how ready you are!”
― Tybalt, New Horizons
Tybalt (ハリマオ,Harimao?) is a jocktigervillager from the Animal Crossing series. The name Tybalt is a reference to a character by the same name in Romeo and Juliet, whose nickname was "The Prince of Cats". He is the only tiger in Happy Home Designer who did not originally appear in New Leaf.
Tybalt returned to the series in New Leaf, as part of the Welcome amiibo update. By scanning amiibo cards, this villager can be met via the campground and invited to the town.
Tybalt is a light yellow tiger with brown stripes. The insides of his ears are bright purple-pink, and he has four brown freckles on each of his cheeks. His nose is large and shiny, and is shaped like a downward triangle with roundish edges. His eyes are round with round black pupils, which have thick black eyebrows just above them pointing downwards in an angry or determined resting expression. His tail is tipped with the same brown as the stripes on his body, and is preceded with another brown stripe on his tail. His initial clothing is the Two-Ball Shirt while in New Horizons he wears a light blue sweatshirt.
Personality
Below is a brief description of the jock personality. For more information, click here.
Tybalt has a jock personality and has a great interest in sports and bodybuilding. Jock villagers are hyperactive and motivated, but often come across as self-centered and dense. As a jock villager, Tybalt is very interested in his hobby, and may compete against the player at catching bugs and fish. Jock villagers get along with peppy, cranky and sisterly villagers, but conflict with the laid-back lifestyle of lazy villagers. Snooty villagers may also be difficult to get along with for Tybalt.
House
Tybalt's house has a construction theme towards it. If he is given a stereo, K.K. Technopop is played. In New Leaf, he will have K.K. Salsa playing on a stereo instead.
The local track star, Tybalt is known for his incredible speed in short-distance sprints. While he's no cheetah, he's easily the fastest animal around, and he has a quick wit to boot.
Tybalt shares his birthday with Alice. They both have a birthday on August 19th.
Tybalt has the same birthday, August 19th, shared by the character Torahiko Ooshima from the popular cancelled dating simulator Morenatsu. This maybe a reference to this villager due to their similar personalizes and appearance.
Harimao is the Malay word for Tiger (albeit with the archaic spelling used prior to the 80s). Most Malaysian Animal Crossing players believe Harimao to be a Malayan Tiger.
