Alex Price

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**Alexander "Alex" Jonathan Price** is a major character and narrator in the InCryptid series. He is a cryptozoologist and herpetologist who specializes in studying reptilian cryptids.

Not to be confused with Alexander Healy, his great-great-grandfather and ex-Covenant agent.

## About

### Appearance

Alex has classic coloring of Healy men, tall with darkish brown hair. He needs glasses or contacts to see clearly, though he is not completely blind without them.

### Personality

Alex’s personality is shaped by his commitment to science. He tends to be calm, rational, and determined. He prefers to think through problems and study topics in depth.

Sarah considers him, along with Elsie, as the more socially consious and sensitive of her cousins.

He does not like horses at all, having had a bad experience with some that were infected with lycanthropy. He feels uncomfortable sitting back and letting the women do the domestic tasks; he feels obligated to help.

### Abilities

Alex is a cryptozoologist focusing on reptiles and related cryptids, including gorgons, basilisks, and cockatrice. He usually carries a handgun, throwing knives, and a garrote, but at times he relies on his hand-to-hand combat skills rather than using a weapon. He is an accomplished fencer and actor.

One of Alex's weapon's is his grandfather's poison ring, although it is unclear from which side of the family.[*citation needed*]

## Biography

Alex is the eldest of the current generation of Price children. Along with his siblings, he received extensive weapons and survivalist training from an early age. He had a pet coatl as a child. When Alex was eight his father spent most of the summer ambushing Alex at random times throughout the property. Another summer was spent locking the Price children in the trunk of a car, dropping them off in the middle of nowhere, and seeing if they could find their way home. Alex succeeded every time.

In high school, Alex was a fencer until he became too good at it and risked drawing the Covenant's attention. He then joined the Society for Creative Anachronism, but again had to quit when he was due to be promoted to a more-visible leadership position.

Alex graduated high school two years early at sixteen and went to college immediately after. According to Verity, Alex made it three months into college without doing laundry because he had so many shirts.

He celebrated his eighteenth birthday with a randomly booked international trip to test out his fake ID; he chose to go to Finland.

He got a degree in veterinary medicine, hunted dinosaurs in South America for a year, and then got a job at the Columbus Zoo where he inherited his predecessor's basilisk breeding program.

## In the Series

### Half-Off Ragnarok

Alex investigates who or what is turning people to stone at the Columbus Zoo.

### Pocket Apocalypse

Alex goes to Australia to help Shelby’s family deal with a werewolf outbreak.

### The Measure of a Monster

Alex, Shelby, and Sarah track down poachers who have kidnapped gorgon children. Shelby realizes she is pregnant.

## Relationships

### Shelby Tanner

Shelby and Alex met as coworkers at the West Columbus Zoo and began dating while neither of them was admitting their cryptozoological backgrounds. When they come clean and start working together, Alex rapidly falls in love with Shelby, and half-seriously proposes as an aside during a field expedition. Much later, on a different continent, Shelby calls him her fiance and says that she’s taken her time to decide on the proposal and decided to say yes.

### Crow

Crow is Alex's pet church griffin. Alex has cared for Crow for several years now, having spared the kittens life after wiping out an church griffin infestation. Crow travels with Alex to work and generally makes a cat-like nuisance of himself. Alex has also trained him in tracking.

## Trivia

* According to Alex, Antimony hates crowds outside of roller derby and comic conventions. Verity loves a crowd paying attention to her. Alex is somewhere in the middle.
* Though Alex needs glasses to see clearly, he is depicted without them on the book covers.

## Quotes

* **Alex:** "The human race is currently of least concern. Now give me the keys, before I make you extinct."

**Pocket Apocalypse**

* **Alex:** "Logic and loss aren't always great friends. Sometimes we mourn for things that hurt us. Sometimes, that's okay." (Ch. 2)
* **Alex:** "I'm a Price, sir. If I were unarmed, I would be trying to take someone else's weapons, just for the sake of my own peace of mind." (Ch. 4)
* **Alex:** "I would greatly prefer if you didn't put a bullet into my brain; it would complicate my plans for life, most of which involve not being dead." (Ch. 5)
* **Angelo, to Alex:** "You're too damn weird to die of something as plebeian as a werewolf bite" (Ch. 8)

## References

1. ↑ Tricks for Free Ch. 20
2. ↑ Half-Off Ragnarok Ch. 18
3. ↑ Calculated Risks, Ch. 10
4. ↑ My Last Name
5. ↑ Pocket Apocalypse Ch. ?
6. ↑ Pocket Apocalypse Ch. 6
7. ↑ ??? Ch. 8
8. ↑ Pocket Apocalypse Ch. 16
9. ↑ Pocket Apocalypse Ch. 4
10. ↑ Singing the Comic-Con Blues
11. ↑ Midnight Blue-Light Special Ch. 10
12. ↑ Pocket Apocalypse Ch. 3
13. ↑ Discount Armageddon Ch. ?
14. ↑ Pocket Apocalypse Ch. 1
15. ↑ Calculated Risks, Ch. 8
16. ↑ Pocket Apocalypse Ch. 5
17. ↑ The Measure of a Monster