Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire

  • Mood:
  • Music:

From A to Z in the InCryptid Alphabet: P.

P is for PRICE.

Families are shaped by the worlds that they live in; nothing happens in a vaccum.

The Price family as we know it today began when Thomas Price, late of the Covenant of St. George, married Alice Healy, last survivor of the branch of the Healy family which began with Alexander and Enid Healy's departure from the Covenant. There's a reason the modern Covenant considers them "a lineage of traitors."

Alice and Thomas were happy. Not happy ever after, but happy long enough to have two children, even if Thomas never saw his daughter born. Their son, Kevin, went on to meet and marry a girl named Evelyn, who had been raised by unlikely adoptive parents: a cuckoo and a Revenant. Every family has its secrets, I suppose. Their daughter, Jane, tried three times to quit the family business, before marrying a nice man named Theodore Harrington. Pity he turned out to be an incubus...

Kevin and Evelyn had three children: Alexander, who specializes in reptile and psuedomammalian cryptids; Verity, who specializes in sapient city-dwelling cryptids; and Antimony, who specializes in explosives, pit traps, and driving everyone around her to distraction. The family has never been larger, and one focused air strike could still take them all out.

It's dangerous to be a Price...and there's a Price for everything.
Tags: discount armageddon, incryptid
  • Post a new comment

    Error

    Anonymous comments are disabled in this journal

    default userpic

    Your reply will be screened

    Your IP address will be recorded 

  • 38 comments
The lineages make me want to make a geneology chart. :)
There's a family tree at the front of the book.

archangelbeth

5 years ago

mrs_norris_mous

5 years ago

ravenclawed

5 years ago

jenfullmoon

5 years ago

I'm so happy you named a character Antimony. Thank you.
Hee, thanks. But why?

Deleted comment

Yay!
The family has never been larger, and one focused air strike could still take them all out.

It wouldn't *dare*.

More realistically, *attempting the air strike and *failing* to get all of them would cause really, *really* Bad Things to happen.

Which is why it hasn't happened, no doubt.
Heh.

True.

reedrover

February 23 2012, 17:03:59 UTC 5 years ago Edited:  February 23 2012, 17:06:48 UTC

I have a slightly off-topic question... when is the official drop-date now? Amazon (my crack-habit that I know is evil) sent me a note saying it has shipped and will arrive Feb 24th. Powell's lists it as available on March 6th, as does Barns and Noble... Has Amazon jumped the gun?
The drop date has not changed. Amazon is distributing books two weeks early, and we are both trying to MAKE THEM STOP and not mentioning it, because we don't want people to cancel their pre-orders with their local stores that really need their business and don't fuck me over like this in the interests of immediate gratification.

Amazon is FUCKING AROUND and they NEED TO STOP.

reedrover

5 years ago

ohari

5 years ago

pointedulac

5 years ago

ravenclawed

5 years ago

jenfullmoon

5 years ago

Antimony Price, I haven't met you yet but you're one of my favorite people already. I do so love blowing shit up, though Distraction and Explosives might not the best combination....

Thank You for being You, Seanan McGuire.
I am good at it!
I love the Price family so far. Not the want to marry in kind of love them, but am excited to get to know them better.
I'm super-glad.
The Prices/Healys sound like they'll soon be one of my favorite families.
I am totally glad.
Speaking as someone who married a Price (the Michigan Prices, even, who can trace their lineage back to the settlement of the state), this makes me even more squee-ish than I was before.
...okay, that's both awesome and hysterical.
I was scrolling back through posts on my friends page and misread the last line as "It's dangerous to be a pie." There's some truth to that, too.
Very true.
Thomas never got see his daughter *sad now*.
Alice was pregnant when he vanished.
ooooo
We're on P now!
I remember this alphabet thing, it's coming up on the home stretch now.
(Even though you appear not to have understood about elenemo all being one.)
Am getting all anticipatory and all.
Hee.

I am glad.
I was about to say that these sounded like someone's RPG characters (especially Antimony) but then I remembered the genesis of this setting.

Nifty.
Shhhhhhh. ;)
Some one was asking at rpg.net about interesting cryptid races he could have players in his game use, so I posted a link to the Price Family Field Guide... I figure gamers got to be a good market for these books, right?
Absolutely!
I look forward to finding out what a Revenant is.
That day will come.