Dolhan Cricket

About
Dolhan Cricket is one of the last remaining Insect Users on the Continent and an obedient slave of Emi Alphorne. He is her main servant, and though she treats him cruelly, he has long since been completely broken and serves her faithfully.

The Insect Users were not so long ago a fairly large tribe living in Zeth, however the village was destroyed and almost all of its inhabitants wiped out on order of the then king of Zeth, who like most in Zeth considered them to be repugnant and despicable creatures, who to top it off possessed odd powers that even the magic users could not duplicate.

Only Dolhan and Caloria survived the massacre, however Dolhan was captured and enslaved by the Alphorne family, where he endured years of cruel treatment and forced Insect absorption. Years later, Dolhan would follow the young and vicious Emi Alphorne everywhere, including her hunts with her fiance Hassam Crown on the weaker Zeth citizens. As Emi lacked any particular inclination for fighting, she would order Dolhan to maim and slaughter in her stead, orders to which he would reluctantly agree. However on one such hunt, the three of them encountered Rance and his compatriots from Ice Flame and both Dolhan and Hassam were swiftly defeated.

Emi and Dolhan managed to escape and Emi returned to her main duties as head warden of the Zeth Women's prison, where Dolhan would still serve her as slave and bodyguard. However Rance soon invaded the prison in the hopes of tracking down the beautiful Emi, and she would have been raped then and there if not for Dolhan suddenly appearing and attacking Rance. Though Kaoru intervened, she ended up being struck by Dolhan's powerful poison darts and the team was forced to retreat.

Since Emi was enraged by Rance's attack on her ( and possibly motivated by something else ... ), she soon plotted her revenge on Rance. First, she went back to the insect village and forced Dolhan to absorb more insects and make him even stronger at the risk of his own life, then she made him kidnap the young Karma to lure him into a trap in the ruins of insect village. Because of the power of Dolhan's poison, Rance was soon incapacitated but was saved by Caloria Cricket, the one other survivor of the slaughter who had survived for years hidden in the ruins.

Though Rance escaped, Emi discovered Caloria and ordered Dolhan to capture and rape her, hoping to start a new line of Insect Users indentured to Emi. However, when given orders to assault the only family he still had, Dolhan for the first time in years refused. As Emi was starting to threaten the girl's life, Rance's team arrived and attacked Emi and Dolhan. Though Dolhan had grown much stronger with all the insects he'd absorbed, he was already starting to lose control over them, and Rance quickly managed to bring him down.

As Rance started having sex with Emi, a deformed and enraged Dolhan rose once more attacking Rance. However, Caloria appears and tells the warrior that Dolhan is already dead, as the insects within him have completely destroyed his body. Now too far gone, Rance quickly finishes off Dolhan with a blow to the forehead, killing him.

Personality and Appearance
Dolhan is a strange gnarly figure, with a rough square face and what appeared to be a large hunchback caused by the surplus of insects teeming with his body. Like Caloria, his body is covered by the tattoos of the Insect User tribe.

Though at core a fairly kind creature, years of torture and enslavement have made him utterly obedient to Emi Alphorne, to the point that he shows no hesitation in killing both to protect her and when she orders him to. Still, despite all this, he was still a romantic creature and finally balked at Emi's more extreme orders, particularly when another Insect User was concerned. Still, as the main tool of the sadistic Emi, he is quite dangerous.

Abilities
Dolhan was a moderately powerful insect user, able to give a challenge to experienced warriors like Rance and his group at the start of their journey. When forced to ingest even more Insects, he became even stronger and was able to rally monstrosities to his side at the cost of his own well-being, and was then capable to challenge Rance's team when they were already much stronger.

Still, compared to Caloria, Dolhan is fairly unimpressive, as he only ever managed to be so much trouble due to the huge amount of Insects in his body to the point that he could not possibly control them all and caused major deformations of his body, and though when they met he managed to overpower her, with training Caloria managed to reach a similar level of power with only four insects.

The most dangerous thing about Dolhan was his special poison darts: the poison could kill even strong warriors in a matter of weeks, and when Dolhan boosted his power the lethal concoction could bring even the powerful Rance to his knees in mere instants.