Cricket

## Sarah "Cricket" May

Cricket is slow to draw weapons on those who she thinks may be sentient, human, alive.

### Skills

Confidante, Combat Training, Shield, Stall For Time, Sympathetic Connection, Grit

### Unique Items

Gas Mask, RAD Detector, Shock Collar and Remote, Mobile Phone, Add shock to a weapon (5 uses), Handcuffs.

### CP Points

Shield (covers Half Self), Melee Weapon (120cm), Medications (Stim pack), Medications (Buffout), Melee Weapon, (10 cm), Medications (Biofoam), Chits x 2

***Funeral Song***

***They died facing off against Talon in an effort to protect the other seekers. In line with their wishes they have been cloned.***

## **Personal Information**

### **Appearance**

Cricket is still a larger girl though the scars on her face have healed now and she makes very little effort to show them off. she dresses plainly a pair of jeans, well loved and often torn at the knees her red jacket, now missing the Animals logo, and whichever shirt she can find that is clean. She keeps her shield around but there is no longer the almost obsessive need to have it in arms reach and the red rider marking have been buffed from its surface. When she knows she's being watched she is still as animated, loud and expressive as ever but in the quite times when she's alone, or at least thinks herself to be, this mask often slips away leaving her looking tired and far older then she actually is.

### **Personality**

Crickets personality has show probably the most notable difference since she joined the seekers. still brash and outspoken, still loud and full of course language but her faith in organisations and systems of authority is all but shattered. She arrived at Unity Peak believing in heroes, believing in the idea that if she could make a difference then maybe she would be remembered as one, one day and that would make any and all sacrifices she made worth it.

Now she is far more cynical, she trusts very few people and really shows the free and easy generosity she used to, she has stopped trying to make friends to be every ones friend and whilst she does still believe in "No man left behind" it comes with a large caveat of the needs of the many out way the needs of the few. She carries very little now and packign for a run only really takes her as long as it takes to pick up her shield and mace.

she still sees herself as more experienced then some, read most, but now she no longer sees that as virtue or something to be proud of. She still sees those born and raised in bunkers as coddled children and is more likely to ark up at them then a person born in the wastes. still they can earn her respect if they are able to show a real will, desire and ability to survive (and to aid those around them rather then just looking out for themselves)

She has very limited education capable of reading, writing and simple mathematics she doesn't understand science at all and has only basic mechanical know how. She doesn't like reading and writing and will avoid it where she can. She believes love gets you hurt, though try as she might she cant fully stop herself from caring about and wanting to care for those few that are special to her. Still she tries to cover it up and hide it away seeing its as a weakness and refusing to admit it even to herself.

### **Backstory**

* Born to the east of where the wall now stands by the river that borders the Karnac Region
* Mother (Larnie), Father (Timothy) and younger sister (Libby) all wastelanders
* Farmed Z-Cows and Grain and where often hit by Zeds
* Moved into the Nexus Region under the radar after a particularly brutal attack and as the wall was being built.
* Father was almost killed by Dancer after refusing to hand over the tractor battery Dancer wanted as part of their tithe bear saved her father from Dancers rope
* The near death of her father created a divide between the two sisters Cricket idolised bears actions and viewed dancer as an isolated villain whilst her sister viewed all riders as vicious hostile and drug addled murderers
* She lied her way onto the wall at 16 and after being rejected by her sister (at least to her understanding) she began to cave to the pressure the company placed on her and started taking Click Clack
* after a year she was being hit hard by the side effects it was then she ran into bear again she begged him to take her with him
* Has ridden with the animals for a little under a year a now
* joined up with the seekers
* has some repressed feelings and trauma over Techie and Lilly's deaths and bears response to it.

Born outside the nexus region on a small farm, to Larnie and Timothy, her family was part of a small farming collective. facing almost constant raids by Zeds coming out of Lobathal life was hard but they where happy; They raised Z-Cows (a strange mutant creature native to hope, and named before the incident, that produce a milk like substance as well as meat) and a few simple crops, mostly wheat and corn.

Her sister Libby was born 2 years after her and from the moment Cricket laid eyes on her little sister she was determined to keep her safe. The Wilds are chaotic and eventually, when Cricket was 7 years old, the worst happened a swarm out of Lobathal attacked the collective, It is a memory still seared into Crickets mind, she and her sister had been out in the fields playing when the attack started, They tried to run at first but it quickly became clear they couldn't outpace them they had to freeze and hope, cricket tried to turn it into a game best she could but time dragged on and eventually all they could do was hold each other as the zeds swarmed around them towards the settlement. They where trapped in the field overnight Cricket doing everything she could to keep Libby still and quite until their parents found them. Many in the collective died in the initial assault even more had to be put down after to stop the inevitable. Those that where left knew they no longer had the resources or man power to protect their property. The wall was starting to be built at this time still rough and with many gaps the survivors snuck through into the region finding land abandoned or deserted within the wall and setting up new homes and farms with what they had left.

Years passed in relative peace, Cricket and Libby grew her father paid what was demanded and they all kept their heads down.They managed to make a living growing grain, the Z-cows hadn't made it through the attack, and Cricket learnt how to fight from her father and the knights who would pass through collecting tithe and simply looking for lodging. Libby was far less friendly with the knights keeping her distance and hiding in the house whenever they would come.

The problems only really started again when towards the end of the year her father bought a tractor, it was old earth tech, rusted junk to most but her father, no longer having to fear that any noise would draw the hordes saw in it potential, after many months of work he got it running ... then the tithe came due and dancer came into their lives.

Dancer Wanted the Battery from the tractor as part of the tithe her father refused trying to explain that they needed it to plant the crops, Dancer took badly to this threatening him dragging him outside and going as far as tying a noose before one of the other Riders, Bear, stepped in talking down the situation. Cricket knew instantly that this was who she wanted to be she idolised the rider who had stood up to the villain Dancer and saved her father and the first chance she got she took off for the wall to join the riders. she was only 15 but she lied her way onto the wall. Her sister was disgusted with her and though Cricket sent her letters pleading for her to understand trying to explain the good she saw day to day on the wall she never got a response. Eventually she gave up she stopped sending the letters she decided if her sister was going to think the worst of her anyway she might as well do what was needed to be alert to be as good as she could be. She refused to take any of the harder drugs but click clack, that was necessary surely. Years passed and it took its tole on her until she saw Bear and the animals again.

She begged bear to take her on to let her ride with him and his he agreed and she has been with the crew ever since. After the fateful events of the training day she has undergone a real change in her personality she no longer views the wall riders as family nor does she hero worship bear as she once did.

## Quotes

### **Rumours**

* spends a lot of time hunting zeds and clearing the traps around Triway
* has developed some bad habits of drinking when not actively on duty

## Inspirations and Soundtrack

Hawkeye: War isn’t Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.

Father Mulcahy: How do you figure that, Hawkeye?

Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?

Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe.

Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them — little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.

* https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4zRdjRvortTy4dwh0qzxX6?si=d00a8c5f7b7447f7