Cricket

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"Really? Why don’t you know your father? Is that normal for SilkWings? Don’t you live with your parents? Or, I’m sorry, is that a question I’m not supposed to ask? I ask a lot of questions I’m not supposed to ask, apparently, according to my teachers - also my parents - actually, according to pretty much every grown-up HiveWing. Too many questions, Cricket! Don’t you know what happens to nosy little HiveWings? They lose those noses! Which is silly; I’ve never seen a dragonet without a nose and I’m sure I can’t be the first one with this many questions. What’s your name? Oh, that’s another question. Sorry. I’m Cricket."
— Cricket, meeting Blue, in The Lost Continent.

Template:Charbox Cricket is a young female HiveWing who is the main protagonist of The Hive Queen. She is interested in fields of science such as invention and botany, and is one of the only known HiveWings who is immune to Queen Wasp's mind-controlling ability. She currently has a crush on Blue.

Personality

Cricket is extremely interested in science and invention, always eager to learn something new and constantly asking questions. She is slightly rebellious, and is often frustrated by the strict laws of HiveWing society. Although Cricket is not often portrayed as dignified or authoritarian, she is extremely empathetic and compassionate, demonstrated when she rescued Blue from her own tribe in The Lost Continent and later helped him search and rescue Swordtail. Cricket carries little of the usual HiveWing smugness and haughtiness, and is kind yet firm, not pushed around or convinced easily. She dislikes violence and conflict and wants the best for most dragons. Cricket is also extremely intelligent, as proven in The Hive Queen when she found a library key hidden upon a statue of Clearsight with nothing more than a few very vague directions.

Appearance

Cricket has palish orange-gold scales[1] speckled here and there with black scales that looked like tiny inkblots[2] (although on the The Hive Queen cover she has dusty black spots), golden yellow talons (Although she has black talons on the The Hive Queen cover)[3], and warm, dark brown eyes[2]. She is smaller than Blue[3] and has small, sharp claws like a leopard’s, as well as an open and curious face. She wears gold-rimmed, hexagonal spectacles[2] and a bag tied sideways across her chest [4]. She is said to smell like books, apples, and weird cinnamon by Blue.

Biography

BLUE AND CRICKET ARE IN LOVEEEEEEEEEEEE AND THEIR FUTURE CHILDREN ARE TURQUIOSE AND BUMBLE

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Quotes

SHOVE A BANNANA UP YOUR SNOUT YALLL

Relationships

Cricket is shown to have a close relationship with her "sister", who, unlike her, isn’t immune to Queen Wasp’s mind control. Before she met Blue, Katydid was the only other dragon to know of Cricket’s mind control immunity, since after realizing that Cricket was immune she encouraged her to hide it out of fear of what Queen Wasp would do upon finding out. Cricket also states that though she often goes missing during and after the periods of time in which Queen Wasp takes control of the other HiveWings, Katydid always covers for her. In The Hive Queen, Katydid is revealed to be Cricket's mother and not her sister.

While Bombardier believes Cricket is in love with him, the HiveWing never had any loving feelings for him. She describes him as awful and arrogant and also comments that there isn’t much difference between his normal self and his “brain-dead”, mind-controlled self. Cricket does say that if she had the power to save the HiveWings from Queen Wasp’s mind control, she would save Bombardier, but perhaps last, after all the others.

Cricket and Blue became close, fast friends throughout The Lost Continent. She and Blue say they are best friends, with Cricket saying she would be Blue's best friend even if she knew every dragon on Pantala. Blue values her friendship and is also in love with her. Cricket does describe him as being one of the most colorful (and handsome) SilkWings she'd ever seen, calling him "beautiful" at least twice. She even repeats in her book that she thinks that his face and wings were handsome. In the The Hive Queen, Cricket looks back to in The Lost Continent when she promises to stay by his side until he wakes up, and describes the moment as romantic. Later on in the book,  it is revealed that she returns Blue's romantic feelings, and wonders if he likes her back.

Lady Scarab comes up in a conversation between Blue and Cricket. In The Hive Queen, we learn that Lady Scarab helped cover for Cricket's egg. Lady Scarab often scolds Cricket, but it is unlikely that she hates Cricket. Lady Scarab also abnormally tangled in Cricket’s history.

Sundew hates HiveWings more than Swordtail but seems to be okay with Cricket, acting a bit more friendly and open around her in The Hive Queen. 

Bumblebee hatched from the egg Cricket rescued from Queen Wasp's poisons, so she and Bumblebee have a naturally close relationship. It seems like Bumblebee has slightly imprinted on Cricket, as she was the first dragon she met.

Cricket thinks that Swordtail somewhat dislikes her, but changes her mind when she says they need find out what was wrong with her and right with the rest of the tribe. However, Swordtail corrects her and says they need to find out what was right with her and wrong with her tribe.

Even though Cadelle is Cricket's grandmother, they don't get along. Cadelle resented Cricket since her hatching as the former is mean and had no wish to raise another child even if the dragonet was her grandchild. According to Lady Scarab, Cadelle would rather have drowned Cricket as an egg than raise her as her own dragonet.

Trivia

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References

  1. The Lost Continent, page 143
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 The Lost Continent, page 66
  3. 3.0 3.1 The Lost Continent, page 63


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