Cricket (DotC)

"They want to fight all the time. They’re violent prey-stealers, and I don’t want anything to do with them."

— Cricket about the cats from the mountains in A Forest Divided, pages 8-9, Bonus scene

Cricket (DotC)
The pixel artwork is fanart based on the canon description; undefined traits are left to the artist's interpretation.
Affiliations
Last known:	Rogue
Biographical information
Cause of death:	Killed by a fox
Names
Kit:	Unknown
Rogue:	Cricket
Kin
Mother:	Unnamed she-cat
Sisters:	Slate, Unnamed she-cat
Book appearances
Living	A Forest Divided
Living	A Forest Divided

Cricket is an orange tabby tom with green eyes.

History

In the Dawn of the Clans arc

The Blazing Star

Slate: "She's surviving, but it's hard. I know what it's like to lose someone I loved. My brother died saving me from a fox attack— look."

Gray Wing: "I'm sorry. Your brother must have been a great cat."

^{The Blazing Star, page 85}

When Gray Wing notices the scar on Slate's belly, she explains that her brother saved her from a fox, also indicating that he died in the fight as well. Gray Wing feels sympathetic for the she-cat and tries to comfort her. He meows that her brother clearly must have been a phenomenal cat, having sacrificed himself for his sister.

A Forest Divided

"Though they were littermates, Slate and Cricket were completely different cats. Slate had amber eyes and thick gray fur, quite unlike Cricket's orange tabby pelt. Cricket was light-hearted, always joking and playing around, while Slate was more serious and liked to plan ahead. Once they had been part of a happy family. But the sickness that stalked the moor had taken their mother and their sister, leaving Slate and Cricket alone."

―Narrator ^{A Forest Divided, Bonus scene, page 2}

In the bonus scene, Cricket is one of the rogues that roam the moor. Slate is looking for Cricket, she calls out to him but there is no sight of his orange tabby fur. Slate starts to get really worried about her brother, she recalls that they had been racing towards the stones, and she was winning. When she checks back to see if he was there, he vanished. She thinks she should not have gone ahead, as something could have happened to him because he always gets into mischief. Slate begins to worry if the moor cats from the mountains have gotten to him. She thinks that she and Cricket are completely different cats, despite being littermates. Cricket is a lighthearted, cheerful cat whereas Slate was more serious and she liked to plan ahead. The she-cat realizes she could not lose Cricket, as she already lost her mother and sister to the sickness, and she is determined to find Cricket.

Cricket leaps onto Slate and terrifies her. He jests at her after she yells at him, saying that he got her. Cricket's ear gets cuffed by Slate with a sheathed claw, as Slate would not dare to hurt him. After Slate says that they could not mess around all day, Cricket tells her that his belly never felt so empty before. Cricket and Slate split up to find food, after he boasts to her that he would catch something first. As they split up, Slate hears a scream. She realizes that Cricket is battling against a fox. Slate tries to help her brother, but the fox is too wily. As Slate is injured, Cricket screams and attacks the fox. Slate blacks out afterwards.

Slate wakes up to see a bundle of familiar orange fur—she instantly recognizes Cricket, and sees his fur being strewn in a mess of blood. She chokes out for her brother after she realizes that he is dead. Slate blames herself, thinking that she failed him, and she wishes that she could just join Cricket. Slate remembers that Cricket had said that Wind Runner's cats fought all the time. When offered to join the group, she uses Cricket's excuse to reject the offer. She then tells Wind Runner that a fox killed Cricket, and she feels the grief stir inside of her at the thought of her dead brother. Later, when Slate faces the fox, she realizes that it is the same fox that killed Cricket, as she remembers the same eye that got injured by him. Slate kills the fox, snarling at it that it is for killing her brother.

Character pixels

The pixel artwork is fanart based on the canon description; undefined traits are left to the artist's interpretation. Kit Version Rogue Version

Kin

Members

Mother:

Unnamed she-cat: Deceased, residence unknown

Sisters:

Slate: Deceased, verified StarClan member

Unnamed she-cat: Deceased, residence unknown

Niece:

Silver Stripe: Deceased, verified StarClan member

Nephews:

Black Ear: Deceased, verified StarClan member

White Tail: Deceased, verified StarClan member

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Unnamed ♀

Gray Wing ♂

Slate ♀

Cricket ♂

Unnamed ♀

Silver Stripe ♀

Black Ear ♂

White Tail ♂

    = Tom

    = She-cat

    = Gender unknown

Appearances

• The Blazing Star (First appearance) (Indirect mention only)
• A Forest Divided

Quotes

«It was stupid of me to get so far ahead. What if something happens to him? Cricket is always getting into mischief.»

—Slate's thoughts after losing Cricket ^{A Forest Divided, Bonus scene, page 1}

«Cricket gone...it's not possible.»

—Slate's thoughts after Cricket dies ^{A Forest Divided, Bonus scene, page 7}

Slate: "Cricket had been outraged by the way these cats had appeared on the moor and settled down there and in the nearby forest, making it harder for the local cats to find prey."

Cricket: "They want to fight all the time. They're violent prey-stealers, and I don't want anything to do with them."

^{A Forest Divided, pages 8-9, Bonus scene}

«That fox killed the cat I loved best.»

—Slate about the fox that killed Cricket ^{A Forest Divided, Bonus scene, page 17}