Cricket

THQ Spoiler Alert
You might not want to read this if you haven't read The Hive Queen, as it contains major give-aways.

Cricket is the POV of The Hive Queen.

Appearance
Cricket is golden with black splotches or splatters. She is about the average size for a HiveWing, maybe a little smaller.

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 fairly intelligent, as she is fond of reading and able to decipher most meanings, 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.

Relationships
Cricket is the daughter of Katydid and Malachite, but was raised by Cadelle, her grandmother. Until the events of The Hive Queen, Cricket thought Cadelle was her mother and Katydid was her sister.

Cricket is in a romantic relationship with Blue, and is friends with Sundew and Swordtail. She is also on mostly good terms with Katydid, who always cared and looked out for her. She never met her father.