Kevin Price

**Kevin Alexander Price** is a recurring character in the InCryptid series. He is father to Alex, Verity, and Antimony.

## About

### Appearance

Kevin is just under six feet tall and solidly built, with a small belly. His hair is mostly sandy brown, streaked with white in some places, and his eyes are blue. He wears glasses for reading and fine work. He is described as having a pointed, "foxlike" face, crowned by his shaggy, unkempt hair.

### Personality

Kevin cares deeply about his family, and will fight anything or anyone endangering them. He is scrupulous about security, questioning Verity for over fifteen minutes to make sure she's really her.

He is the "history nut" of his generation and wanted to be a history teacher when growing up.

### Professional Life

Kevin is considered the "history nut" of his generation, taking after Thomas, Jonathan, and Alexander. He works as a linguistics consultant for various universities. He typically decodes lost languages by asking cryptids who never let the language die out.

## Biography

Kevin and Jane were largely raised by the Campbell Family Carnival after Thomas's disappearance and Alice leaving to search for him. He was considered an excellent midway barker.

As an adult, Kevin built the Price family compound in Oregon, hiring mainly cryptid architects, electricians, and plumbers for the construction.

## In the Series

### My Last Name

Kevin greets Verity when she and Dominic arrive at the family compound. He interrogates her to make sure she's his daughter, and then meets Dominic and grills him about his relationship with Verity.

### Blocked

Kevin approaches Antimony six weeks after she graduated high school and suggests she find an activity to keep herself busy; she decides on roller derby.

## Relationships

### Evelyn Price

Kevin met Evelyn Baker when he was investigating reports of a cuckoo in Columbus, Ohio. After he learned that the cuckoo in question, Angela Baker, was not telepathically holding her family hostage, he ended up marrying her human daughter.

### Thomas Price

Kevin was a toddler when Thomas disappeared. He faintly remembers his father, and is overcome with emotion to learn that Thomas is truly alive.

## Trivia

* Antimony finds out he is bisexual when he makes a pass at a bleeding Ted Harrington, since incubus pheromones only work if the person is attracted to men.

## Quotes

### Epigraphs

**Half-Off Ragnarok**

* "Our relationship with the mice is...complicated. Just remember that being a god doesn't actually give you any authority and you'll be fine." (Ch. 3)
* "Expectations are dangerous things. They've probably killed more people than any creature or cryptid you care to name." (Ch. 9)
* "I knew Evelyn was the one for me the very first time I met her. She slapped me so hard that my jaw hurt for three days, and all because I'd said that sometimes, werewolves could be dangerous. Love is a painful thing." (Ch. 12)
* "Playing fair is for people who don't mind playing to lose." (Ch. 19)
* "Once upon a time there was a little boy who lived with monsters, and the monsters swore they would never hurt him, because even monsters dream of living happily ever after." (Ch. 24)

**Pocket Apocalypse**

* "The trick to doing things people say are impossible is confidence. As long as you seem to know what you're doing, and never hesitate, you're unlikely to face any challenges. People don't like to break illusions, even when they don't know what they're looking at." (Ch. 3)
* "That probably wasn't the smartest thing you've ever done. Points for style, I guess. Points off for being too stupid to live." (Ch. 9)
* "Family matters more than anything else in the world. Family doesn't have to love you. Family doesn't even have to like you. But when you need them, family has to have your back." (Ch. 14)
* "The best thing you can do for the people you love is to make it home alive." (Epilogue)

**Imaginary Numbers**

* "Family is the only thing you can't replace." (Ch. 14)
* "No matter how much we study, train, and prepare, there will always be situations we weren't ready for. That's the nature of reality. It's sort of neat, when it isn't trying to chew your face off." (Ch. 20)

## References

1. ↑ My Last Name
2. ↑ My Last Name
3. ↑ Blocked
4. ↑ Midnight Blue-Light Special Ch. 9
5. ↑ Discount Armageddon Ch. 6
6. ↑ Chaos Choreography Ch. 2
7. ↑ Calculated Risks Prologue
8. ↑ Spelunking Through Hell Epilogue
9. ↑ Imaginary Numbers, Ch. 14 last page