Dominic De Luca

**Dominic De Luca Price** is a major character in the InCryptid series. A former member of the Covenant of St. George, Dominic defects after meeting Verity Price. They are currently married and living in Manhattan.

## About

### Appearance

Dominic is short by most people's standards, which makes him the perfect height for tiny Verity. He has a lean, solid build, thick dark hair, and dark brown eyes that are constantly puzzled around Verity.

### Personality

Dominic is quite serious and intense, which is only magnified when matched against Verity's quick wit. He takes monster-hunting very seriously at the outset and freaks out at the idea of discussing the cryptid world where normals can hear. He has mellowed considerably since his relationship with Verity, but still trends toward doom and gloom.

### Abilities

Dominic is skilled in array of weaponry and combat skills

### Professional Life

Dominic was raised by the Covenant to be a lethal, cryptid-hating man. He defected after meeting Verity and her cryptid friends.The Covenant currently believes him dead.

## Biography

Dominic was an only child, and his parents were killed when he was very young. He was raised by the Covenant in Italy until he was ten, and then moved to England for the rest of his education and training.

## In the Series

### Discount Armageddon

Dominic is sent to Manhattan for his first solo mission. He is instructed to assess the city to determine if it is due for a purge of the cryptids living there. He meets Verity Price, who teaches him a more nuanced approach to monster-hunting. They hook up despite both their reservations, and he helps save her from a snake cult who wants to use her as a "virgin" sacrifice.

### Midnight Blue-Light Special

A Covenant strike team is sent to New York to conduct a purge. Dominic warns Verity and Sarah, and fully defects from the Covenant when they capture Verity. He, Sarah, and the Aeslin mice rescue her, and Sarah modifies the Covenant team's memories to make them think Verity was a fake and Dominic is dead.

### Verity and Dominic Shorts

Dominic joins Verity on a cross-country road trip back to her family home in Portland, Oregon. On the trip they visit New Orleans, Chicago, Buckey Township, and Las Vegas and meet a number of the Price's family friends. At one point, Alex Price calls them and asks for Dominic's Covenant expertise regarding Australian operatives.

Dominic and Verity elope in Vegas, both because they want to and to make it harder for Verity's family to reject him. They are welcomed, grudgingly, at the Price stronghold in Portland.

### Chaos Choreography

Dominic is now living with Verity in her childhood room, though they have plans to move out to the detached guest suite. When Verity revitalizes her dance career as Valerie Pryor, Dominic follows her to Los Angeles and remains nearby but under the radar. He offers backup and support while Verity investigates the disappearing contestants on *Dance or Die*.

### Backpacking Through Bedlam

Dominic and Verity are living in Manhattan with their daughter, Olivia and working with the local cryptids to resist Covenant invasion. Dominic regularly pays off subway maintenance staff to use their tunnels to traverse the city.

When Alice and Thomas come into town, Dominic stays out of sight until Verity confirms that Thomas is not a Covenant trick. Once introduced, Dominic defaults to treating Thomas as he would a superior agent. Thomas gently tells him that Dominic is in charge in his own city.

When a group of young dragons and their caretaker goes missing, Dominic leads a team to the East Village where Margaret Healy's team has been spotted.

## Relationships

### Verity Price

Dominic is suspicious and confrontational to Verity from the outset, from their first meeting where he catches her upside down in an ahool trap. She identifies him as Covenant almost immediately and tries to avoid him, but he tracks her down at both work and her apartment. He wrestles with his prejudices as Verity introduces him to her sapient cryptid friends and makes him question many of the Covenant's teachings. Eventually they give in to lust and sleep together. By the time Verity is kidnapped by the snake cult, Dominic is well aware that he is in love with her.

However, he doesn't fully separate from the Covenant until several of their representatives come to Manhattan to check up on him. He plays both sides for a little while but, when they kidnap Verity, he lands firmly on the side of her and her family's teachings about cryptids.

After the Covenant is sent packing, the two set out cross-country to Verity's family home in Oregon. She introduces Dominic to a number of family friends to give him context about her life and upbringing, and the two end up getting married in Vegas.

As a husband, Dominic is fiercely devoted to Verity's well-being even as he recognizes her tendency to throw herself--quite literally--into danger.

#### *Quotes*

* **Dominic:** "You are without a doubt the most annoying woman I have ever met."
**Verity:** "We breed for it."

* **Dominic:** "You are an insolent, irresponsible, immature little bitch!"
**Verity:** "And you're an arrogant asshole."

* **Dominic:** "You are the most insane, insufferable, infuriating excuse for a female that I have ever met."
* **Dominic:** "Verity, I am aware that you have had an even more idiosyncratic upbringing than I did, and that for you, this sort of thing is perfectly normal, even mundane. Please let me be the first to inform you that bringing one's boyfriend to the family murder house to be lectured by one of an assortment of dead aunts is distinctly *abnormal*."
* **Dominic:** "Before I met [Verity], I was content to be ignorant of the true nature of this war, and my place in it. Without her influence, I might have been able to spend my entire life believing 'monster' was the word for cryptid, and 'traitor' was the word for Price. I would have been unaware of how incomplete my understanding was. I would have continued to think that I was happy. I want to find Verity more than anything else. I want to bring her home, and never let her go. I want to learn everything there is to know about this maddened mirror image of the world where I grew up."

## Trivia

* Per Sarah, Dominic associates his mother with German chocolate. He hates the smell of violets in the rain, and that is related to his mother's death.
* Dominic intends to change his legal name to Price since "Dominic De Luca" is dead per the Covenant's records. He introduces himself to Alice as Dominic Price. Verity's generation still thinks of him as "De Luca," though.
* Dominic loves waffles and bacon, and is a bottomless pit of a stomach when they are on the table.

## Quotes

* **Dominic,** when the Covenant comes to town: "I am betraying someone, right now, and I honestly do not know who it is."
* **Mike to Verity regarding Dominic:** "That boy's crazy about you, you know. He'd better be. The Covenant will never take him back now."

## References

1. ↑ Waking Up in Vegas
2. ↑ Chaos Choreography
3. ↑ Waking Up in Vegas
4. ↑ Chaos Choreography Ch. 2
5. ↑ Waking Up in Vegas
6. ↑ Discount Armageddon Ch. 8
7. ↑ Discount Armageddon Ch. 10
8. ↑ Discount Armageddon Ch. 16
9. ↑ Swamp Bromeliad (story)
10. ↑ Midnight Blue-Light Special Ch. 18
11. ↑ Midnight Blue-Light Special Ch. 17
12. ↑ My Last Name
13. ↑ Chaos Choreography Ch. ?
14. ↑ Chaos Choreography Ch. 3
15. ↑ Midnight Blue-Light Special Ch. 7
16. ↑ Midnight Blue-Light Special Ch. 9