Angela Baker

**Angela Baker** is a recurring character in the InCryptid series. She is a Johrlac married to Martin Baker and adoptive mother of Evelyn, Drew, and Sarah.

## About

### Appearance

Angela has the pale skin, black hair, and blue eyes common to all Johrlac. She could pass for Sarah’s much-older sister.

### Personality

Angela is both nurturing and ethical. Unlike most of her species, she is not a receptive telepath so she did not learn their psychotic tendencies in the womb. When she takes in Sarah, she intentionally teaches the young cuckoo to be ethical about her psychic abilities and avoid manipulating the people swine hwr more than necessary.

Angela is happy with a full house. She welcomes Alex moving in to help with Sarah’s recovery, and she also makes Shelby feel at home, long-term, after Shelby loses her apartment to a fire.

Angela and Martin intentionally stay out of the loop on a lot of family drama that happens in Portland, not wanting to get dragged into it.

Profanity is unusual for Angela.

### Abilities

Unusually for a cuckoo, Angela is not a receptive telepath, meaning she never absorbed the prenatal psychic programming most Johrlac receive. This allowed her to become a relatively normal person, and someone who could raise Sarah to be one as well.

However, she can still project her thoughts and will upon others and the people around her are naturally inclined to give her whatever she desires.

### Professional Life

Angela funnels a cuckoo’s natural love of math into her job as an accountant.

## Biography

Little is known about Angela’s past. She was presumably abandoned by her mother per cuckoo custom and raised by a human family. She married Martin Baker and took on his last name, then adopted their three children over several decades.

She first meets her youngest daughter when Sarah is ten years old. Martin and Angela are driving the Price children home from a trip to Disney when Angela picks up on a telepathic distress signal. At first she intends to steer clear of possible cuckoo, but then she realizes the voice belongs to a child. She directs Martin to a ditch where Sarah is hiding. Realizing Sarah’s human family are all dead, they take Sarah in and teach her to be ethical with her abilities.

## In the Series

Angela’s primary role in the current timeline seems to be caring for Sarah. She comes to Manhattan when Sarah is injured, and Alex moves in with the Bakers during Sarah’s recuperation. Angela is hesitant when Sarah decides she is ready to travel to Portland, assuring Sarah she is welcome at home as long as she needs.

## Relationships

### Martin Baker

Angela and Martin have been happily married since 1961. She fell in love with Martin because, being a zombie, he was immune to her telepathy.

## Trivia

* Like all cuckoos, Angela has an affinity for tomatoes. She likes spaghetti sauce with ginger.

## Quotes

### Epigraphs

**Main article**: Epigraphs

**Imaginary Numbers**

* "No one deserves to be the only living example of their own kind. No one should be that alone in the world."(Prologue)

* "Trust the numbers. The numbers don't lie. Even if everything else in the world is trying to deceive you, the numbers will always, always tell the truth." (Ch. 7)

* "There's a moment where everything comes together, where the numbers add up and everything is perfect, and nothing hurts. That's the best moment for them all. A person could spend their whole life chasing after it, and never feel their time wasted."(Ch. 21)

**Calculated Risks**

* "I don't want to be a monster. I refuse to be a monster. I am a person, and people get to make their own choices about whether or not we bare our claws."(Ch. 5)
* "Sometimes we have to rise above our natures. Sometimes we have to give in to them. At all times, the most important thing is telling the two of them apart." (Ch. 14)

## References

1. ↑ Imaginary Numbers Ch. 5
2. ↑ Imaginary Numbers Ch. 1
3. ↑ Imaginary Numbers (prologue)