History Characters / InCryptid

A crossroads ghost. Has served as an honorary aunt to the Prices and babysitter to the youngest member of the family since Alice was a child.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: He can't even wear shoes in his cryptid form, but he's almost always seen barefoot at the carnival, even when in human form.

* PosthumousSibling: Daniel Healy was murdered at age three, and it was another three years before Fran and Jonathan had Alice. She doesn't seem to have many issues with her upbringing relating to Daniel, but Jonathan becomes an OverprotectiveDad [[spoiler:after Fran is killed too]].

* {{Flanderization}}: After [[spoiler:Fran's death]], he becomes completely defined by his OverprotectiveDad personality.

* OverprotectiveDad: [[spoiler:Following Fran's death]], Jonathan becomes this to Alice, refusing to teach her anything about cryptids and trying to make her have a so-called 'normal' life. This lasts up until [[spoiler:she nearly gets killed by a dire boar in "Target Practice"]], and Alice puts her foot down.

* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:Her death is the catalyst for Jonathan becoming an OverprotectiveDad.]]

* [[OverprotectiveDad Overprotective Mom]]: Ultimately subverted in the short story "My Last Name". Verity warns Dominic that her mother is the one to worry about, but both her parents ultimately accept him as their son-in-law.
-->'''Kevin:''' ''Your mother’s going to bury him in a shallow grave somewhere on the property. You understand that, don’t you?...I mean, I’m the father figure holding a shotgun, so you’d think I’d be the one screaming about despoiling my little girl, but really, I want to go ask the man if he’s considered going into Witness Protection before your mother gets her hands on him.''

* BladeOnAStick: Her weapon is a polearm, and all the Autarch's guards have different ones.

* HeroicSacrifice: Several, never named, in Sweeping Up the Wood

* HeroicSacrifice: Several, never named, in Sweeping Away the Wood

* ParentalAbandonment: Shares this with his sister due to their father being snatched by his DealWithTheDevil, and is mother running off to find him when Kevin was still a toddler. Kevin stepped into the role of caretaker for thir house and is pragmatic about his mother spending 50 odd years searching for his father.

* MissingMom: Shares this and Disappeared Dad with Kevin. Alice was the physically present type first, then completely absent when she left to find Thomas. She took it much harder than Kevin did.

* ParentalAbandinment: See also Kevin's entry. She appears to hold no enmity for Thomas but she hates Alice for having left her children to search for Thomas.

* ParentalAbandinment: Shares this with his sister due to their father being snatched by his DealWithTheDevil, and is mother running off to find him when Kevin was still a toddler. Kevin stepped into the role of caretaker for thir house and is pragmatic about his mother spending 50 odd years searching for his father.

* CaneBackWrong: After [[spoiler:having his mind accidentally wiped and becoming an EmptyShell]], Sarah tries to [[spoiler:reconstruct his mind from everyone else's memories of him]], but not having [[spoiler:his own original memories]] makes him a little...off.

!!James Smith

* CuteGhostGirl