Priscilla Rhee

Priscilla Rhee is the title character in Priscilla's Transformation. A resident of Stallbrook and a member of Our Savior Lutheran Church, she finds herself disagreeing with the methods of other church members in their opposition to the city's growing Free Spirit community, and seeks to learn more about them. In the process, she begins to question her own faith, and soon finds herself at odds with her pastor and members of her congregation.
Priscilla was born in South Korea, and grew up mainly in California. Her family attended a congregation of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, so when she moved to Stallbrook she attended Our Savior. While she had always had some disagreements with her church (i.e., she is a theistic evolutionist, versus the church's dogma supporting creationism), she does not openly express them until her dialogues with Connection members leads her to raise questions with her pastor. She find his dismissive response a sharp contrast to the open, honest and encouraging tenor of the Free Spirits, and this leads her eventually to resign from her church and attend Sunday celebrations.
Priscilla also identifies initially as asexual, and is pleasantly surprised by the Free Spirits' acceptance of this, despite their history as a sex-positive religious movement. She has on rare occasions engaged in masturbation as a way to relieve stress, not to satisfy erotic urges. Over time, however, she experiences attraction to Sabine Moràn, which perplexes her; Lateshia Williams helps her to understand that asexuality also follows a continuum, including demisexuality. By the end of the story, Priscilla has begun a relationship with Sabine.
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