Jane Harrington-Price

**Jane Rose Price-Harrington** is a recurring character in the InCryptid series. She is the mother of Elsie and Artie.

## About

### Appearance

Jane presumably resembles the "Healy/Carew look" of short, blonde, and blue-eyed, as she was not considered to go undercover with the Covenant.

### Personality

Unusually, Jane does not Capitalize the names of Rituals when talking to the Aeslin Mice. She claims this is because she's an "Aeslin historical restorationist". Ted and Evelyn, neither of whom grew up with the mice, still Capitalize words.

According to family members, Jane is a nosy gossip. This, combined with her connections to cryptid society through her incubus husband, means she's the first person to ask about what rumors are flying around.

## Biography

Jane was born soon after her father was taken by the Crossroads, who specifically timed their attack to prevent a heavily pregnant Alice from chasing after Thomas. As soon as Alice had recovered from childbirth, without even waiting to wean Jane, she left Jane and Kevin to be raised by the Campbell Family Carnival in order to go search for their father.

## In the Series

### Discount Armageddon

Verity reaches out to Jane to learn if any rumors are circulating about all the missing cryptids in Manhattan.

### Magic for Nothing

Jane supports the family plan for Antimony to go undercover with the Covenant.

### Calculated Risks

Jane remains by Artie's bedside when he, Sarah, and Antimony return from the insect dimension. She blames Sarah for Artie's coma and memory damage.

## Relationships

### Theodore Harrington

Jane married Ted in 1988, after studying the interaction between the human and Lilu populations in the Pacific Northwest--which sort of makes Artie and Elsie her graduate thesis.

### Arthur Harrington

Jane worries about her son's isolation. She and Angela Baker long hoped for Artie and Sarah to hit it off romantically.

### Alice Price-Healy

Jane has a tense relationship with her mother. They were never close, with Alice shipping her and Kevin off to the Campbell Family Carnival when Jane was only a few weeks old. Jane did not invite Alice to her wedding.[*citation needed*]

## Quotes

### Epigraphs

**Main Article: Epigraphs**

**Magic for Nothing**

* "Every time I think my family has plumbed the depths of stupidity, somebody goes and finds a god-damn shovel." (Prologue)
* "No matter how fast you run, you can't change who you are." (Ch. 5)
* "The trick is not learning to disappear. The trick is learning to hide in plain sight, until everyone around you swears you belong exactly where you are." (Ch. 10)
* "The world is weird. Never challenge it to get weirder. You'll lose." (Ch. 15)
* "When someone judges you for something you can't help, try to forgive them. They don't understand. And if they keep doing it, knock their fucking teeth in." (Ch. 20)
* "Family is family, no matter how far away you run. Their ghosts will always find you." (Epilogue)

**Tricks for Free**

* “We all have things to do that we don’t want to in life. For example, right now, I have to keep not shooting you.” (Ch. 3)
* “Believe me, I want to be here even less than you do. Now, are we going to figure this out like civilized people or am I going to stand here and taunt you?” (Ch. 10)
* “One of these days, something is going to go right. But probably not today.” (Ch. 16)
* “Tired is for after the battle ends.  Tired is for winners. Losers get to sleep a lot longer, and they don’t wake up again.” (Ch. 22)

**That Ain't Witchcraft**

* "If cleanliness is next to godliness, bleach is proof of the divine." (Ch. 3)
* "You know, given the choice--given the ability to change everything about myself--I don't think I'd have been born into this family. Because I wouldn't only be choosing a better world for myself. I'd be choosing for my children." (Ch. 9)
* "Some skills are essential, no matter what your future holds. Never assume that knowledge is useless." (Ch. 15)
* "Nobody's chosen. Everybody gets to choose. Make the choice that brings you home. We're not being paid to save the world, here." (Ch. 21)

**Imaginary Numbers**

* "There's no such thing as 'normal.' Whoever came up with that idea was probably selling something nobody wanted to buy." (Ch. 1)
* "Some people are good at music. Some people are good at sports. Some people are good at both. People are people, and every person has their own strengths and weaknesses. Biology is just one aspect of the greater whole." (Ch. 8)
* "The fact that we call being kind, or considerate, or good 'being human' tells you something about how much of this planet we have under our thumbs." (Ch. 26)

**Calculated Risks**

* The question isn't whether our children are going to surprise us. Children will always surprise their parents. The question is whether they're going to surpass us, and I have the sincere hope that the answer will always, always be 'yes.'" (Ch. 4)
* "Being the black sheep doesn't mean you're not family anymore. We're not all going to fit together like puzzle pieces. We're not even all going to like each other most of the time. That's all right. Family doesn't have to like each other. We just have to step up." (Ch. 12)
* "There's no such thing as 'getting what you deserve," because none of us are born deserving anything. We get what we work for, and we don't always get that. The universe is fickle. We just have to keep on going." (Ch. 13)
* "Everyone makes mistakes. It's what you do afterward that makes the difference between good and evil." (Ch. 20)

**Short Stories**

* “Rejection is a tricky thing. On the one hand, it hurts like hell, and avoiding it is only natural. On the other hand, a life without opportunity for rejection is a life without a lot of opportunities. It seems awfully lonely to me.” (IM)

## References

1. ↑ Calculated Risks Ch. 3
2. ↑ Imaginary Numbers
3. ↑ Singing the Comic-Con Blues
4. ↑ Discount Armageddon Ch. 6
5. ↑ Spelunking Through Hell Prologue
6. ↑ IM
7. ↑ Calculated Risks Ch. 9