Editing Cricket (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
===Personal Sonar===
Cricket can hear subsonic noises<ref name="Cast2" /> and thus sense higher pitched sounds than normally possible for humans, such as the frequency that indicated [[Shatterbird]] was using her abilities.<ref name="I11Ee1">“You said something was wrong. What did you notice?”<br><br>“Sound. The glass was singing. Still is.” She pointed at one wall. Hookwolf followed the line to a building across the street and a little ways to one side.<br><br>His ears were ringing, but he doubted that was it. It would be something subsonic that Cricket noticed with her power, then. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/interlude-11e/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11e]]</ref> It is possible she would be able to hear things like dog whistles as well.

Cricket can generate staccato pulses of subsonic noise to act as a form of radar.<ref name="Cast2" /> This [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation echolocation] allows her to orient herself in combat; she is one of the few people relatively unaffected by [[Grue]]'s original darkness.<ref name="7.8e2">Then every bug in the area reacted to that sound I couldn’t make out, the one I’d heard when Cricket went after Coil’s soldier. It was loud enough for them to hear through the darkness, but… entirely out of my range of hearing.<br/><br/>I couldn’t say for sure, but I got the impression the ones closer to Cricket had heard it a fraction of a second sooner.<br/><br/>“Grue!” I screamed into the oppressive shadow. “Move!”<br><br>Cricket turned toward him and lunged in one motion, bringing both scythes down in an overhead swing. Grue moved out of the way just in time.<br><br>“She has radar!” I shouted, my voice barely audible to myself. Didn’t matter. Grue could hear me. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/buzz-7-8/ Excerpt] from [[Buzz 7.8]]</ref><ref name="7.8e1"/><ref>I was three paces from Cricket when I felt the sound die off, then resume again for one brief second.  Another radar pulse.<br><br>“Careful!” I shouted, adjusting my momentum and hurrying to back away.  Too slow.  She was already pivoting to swing at me.  The handle of one scythe struck me in the side of my throat, the actual blade hooking around behind my neck to halt my retreat.  Before I could do anything, she pulled me toward her.  I stumbled forward, and she adjusted her grip to swing the other scythe up and into the side of my stomach.<br><br>I doubled over and crumpled to the ground. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/buzz-7-8/ Excerpt] from [[Buzz 7.8]]</ref> Although Grue's darkness dampens sound, her senses include [[Shard]]-assisted sound analysis/hearing.<ref>'''RazorSmile:''' In ... let's see ... Buzz 7.8, Cricket was able to use her echolocation while under Grue's darkness. Grue's darkness suppresses sound. Error or subtle detail?<br><br>'''Wildbowpig:'''  Dampens sound, ergo why Grue can speak through the stuff. Cricket's senses include a passenger assisted sound analysis/hearing.<br><br>Might warrant a lampshade in the midst of that fight, though. - Private conversation with Wildbow, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!--https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/89820641 -->

As an alternate option, Cricket can maintain a pulse of subsonic noises to disorient and induce vertigo in nearby opponents.<ref name="Cast2" /> Even under [[Grue]]'s darkness, Cricket's maintained pulse can put [[Skitter]]'s bugs on the fritz: their coordination suffered and their senses began to go haywire.<ref name="7.8e3" /> When Grue fired his gun at an oblivious Cricket in close range under darkness, this disorientation effect interfered with his ability to aim.<ref name="7.8 eDisorientGunUse">Then she backed off, going for the continuous, sense-warping noise to put my bugs on the fritz once more.<br><br>Grue raised his borrowed gun and his arm bucked with the kick.  Cricket was oblivious as the gun fired off several times in a row, but whatever she was doing with her power was screwing with Grue’s ability to aim.  None of the bullets struck home.  He stopped.  Either he was out of bullets, though it seemed too soon for that, or he wanted to conserve ammunition. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/buzz-7-8/ Excerpt] from [[Buzz 7.8]]</ref> As long as she concentrates, Cricket can even maintain a pulse that cancels out [[Shatterbird]]'s powers.<ref name="I11Ee3" /> However, she cannot use her radar if she maintains a pulse.<ref name="7.8e3">Again, that pulse emanated from her. She maintained it this time, and my bugs began to suffer for it. Their coordination suffered, they began to move slower, and their senses – such as they were in the darkness – began to go haywire.<br><br>After a second or two, I thought maybe I was starting to feel it too. A bit off-balance, nauseous. Grue was hunched over, his hands on his knees, but I wasn’t sure if that was Cricket’s power or the injuries she’d inflicted. From the way Cricket was moving, I gathered that she couldn’t see us. Was it echolocation? Did it not work if she simply blasted the noise continually rather than use it in bursts? - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/buzz-7-8/ Excerpt] from [[Buzz 7.8]]</ref> Firing a gun at an aware Cricket can also break her concentration.<ref name="I11Ee3" />

===Supernatural Reflexes===
Despite lacking superspeed, Cricket has vastly accelerated reflexes.<ref name="Cast2" /><ref name="list">Cricket '''Vastly increased reflexes, personal sonar that could be keyed to disrupt others' senses''' E88 - 	[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pgn9rgYutpBqJg1lSBP3NHnq9WK4ToLq9K4ys_I4cRc/edit#gid=0 Parahuman List,] Bolded edit by Wildbow</ref> She has enough reaction time to dodge bullets from a target that she is facing and quickly move towards them.<ref name="7.8e1" /><ref name="7.8 eDodgeBullets">I felt a surge of relief at realizing that Cricket had abandoned her hostage in favor of going after Grue, to initiate a brief exchange of blows.  Unfortunately, my relief was short lived, because the combat wasn’t brief in a good way.  Grue fired the gun twice, and twice she dodged the bullet, standing only ten and seven feet away from the barrel.  It wasn’t superspeed, either, though she was quick.  Her movements were simply too efficient, and if there was any delay in her reactions, I wasn’t seeing it.<br><br>He swung a punch as she closed in.  Cricket leaned out of the way, then swung her scythe to rake him across the chest.  From the way he staggered, I knew she’d struck home.  He jabbed, she avoided it as though it were easy, then followed up with two more swings, and he failed to avoid either.  He staggered back, clutching one arm to his chest.<br><br>He blanketed the area around them in darkness, filling the clearing, and Cricket immediately switched to swinging blindly and ferociously around herself as she advanced toward where Grue had been.  Grue backed away, but this had the unfortunate effect of putting him closer to Hookwolf, who was doing much the same as Cricket.  Grue turned and ran to create some distance and avoid being hemmed in. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/buzz-7-8/ Excerpt] from [[Buzz 7.8]]</ref> 

Cricket is less effective at dodging things she cannot see. Although she detected [[Skitter]] via a radar pulse under [[Grue]]'s darkness and swung her weapon at the incoming cape, Skitter still managed to stab her with a knife.<ref>When I was sure I could move without falling over, I lunged, knife in hand.<br><br>I’d hoped that if I was quick about it, I could act before she used her radar again.  I wasn’t so lucky.  She was already moving by the time I realized she’d made another pulse of noise, scythe points whipping around toward the side of my head, where my mask provided only partial coverage.  I had too much forward momentum to avoid walking straight into the incoming blades.<br><br>I half-fell, half ducked, and instead of driving my knife into her back like I’d intended, I wound up burying it in the side of her thigh.  Whatever technique let her dodge bullets, it apparently didn’t work if she couldn’t see.<br><br>As much as it might have hurt, she didn’t waste an instant in hefting her weapon to retaliate and swinging down at my head.  I wasn’t in a position to get out of the way.<br><br>Grue caught her by the wrist mid-swing and pulled her off-balance before she could follow through. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/buzz-7-8/ Excerpt] from [[Buzz 7.8]]</ref> [[Shadow Stalker]] sniped an occupied Cricket with her crossbow.<ref name="9.6 e1" />

While forcing Cricket to dodge some bullets, [[Shatterbird]] controlled the flight of a glass shard to hit Cricket.<ref name="I11Ee3" />