Cricket

Cricket is a female HiveWing dragonet and the main protagonist of The Hive Queen. She resides in the LeafSilk Kingdom with her parents, Katydid and Malachite. She is currently in a relationship with Blue and was one of the few HiveWings immune to Queen Wasp's mind control before she was overthrown. Cricket wants the world to fit together and make sense, and she is very fond of nonfiction novels; she is obsessed with books. She is often full of questions, and when she feels simultaneous fear and curiosity, curiosity often wins; Sundew described her as a wide-open encyclopedia. She is hopeful, rebellious, excitable, curious, impulsive, stubborn, thoughtful, intelligent, avid, patient, and clever. Cricket refuses to harm innocent dragons, and wants to know many things about the world around her, especially when it comes to humans. She sometimes feels awkward and out of step with others, and finds conversation to be difficult, as she understands science more than she understands emotion. She cannot read facial expressions very well, and dislikes socializing, although she cares about others. She is not a fighter, too easily distracted, and is usually the first dragon to ask questions; additionally, she is often anxious and prefers planning before acting. She is not very organized. Despite Sundew's protests, Cricket was insistent that they help Earwig and several other HiveWings find their way back to Pantala, reasoning that it was Wasp's choice to drag them out to sea, not their own. Additionally, she strongly believes that good HiveWings exist, despite the actions of the tribe as a whole. She is prone to being enormously open about her feelings,.so much to the point where she sometimes overshares and spills her worries and fears in front of dragons she barely knows. While she is unselfconscious in some scenarios, she immediately apologized and became quieter when Bullfrog implied she was being noisy.