Priscilla McAlistair

art by Alyssa Wiswall

Edgar McAlistair (grandfather)

Fay (grandmother)

Byron McAlistair (Father)

Charlotte McAlistair (Mother)

The fourth generation of the McAlister family, Priscilla McAlister is the daughter of Byron McAlistair and Charlotte McAlister. She is the fourth protagonist of The Dolls of New Albion.

## Biography

Priscilla grew up at at time when New Albion was under martial law, where the police would conduct random searches for illegal Dolls. Her father Byron McAlistair was taken away when she was a toddler, leaving Priscilla to be raised by her mother, whose nerves were shattered and was eventually taken away to a mental ward.

Priscilla spent her life in isolation, and her main source of company was Jasper the Doll. Priscilla had found him when she was about 11 and became immensely attached to him, and the two of them play a never ending game of cards to pass the time.

One day Priscilla discovered that Jasper was not happy with his current situation, and he was continuing his miserable existence as a sacrifice in order to allow Priscilla to live.

Priscilla did not think that it was fair for Jasper to suffer quietly throughout all these years, and she calls the police to report a the felony, her own crime of harboring a Doll.

Solider 7285 and a squad of soldiers answer the call, and upon their arrival Priscilla and Jasper are shot and killed. Soldier 7285 notices the look in Priscilla's eye, the haunted grace and the way she was so willing to die for love, and he was so moved by her that he refused to fire. He was inspired by Priscilla to start a revolution to bring down the police state that regularly kills such beauty.

## Personality

Priscilla is selfless and empathetic, willing to put Jasper's needs before her own life, and she sacrificed it all away in order to allow him to be released from the world and the Doll form that had held him captive for so long.

Priscilla was a happy recluse, living in a sheltered world, safe from the harsh and oppressive city outside, favoring fantasy and the company of a mechanical dead person over the actual world. Since she spent the bulk of her life shut in the manor with a scared and nervous mother and a harsh, martial outside environment, Priscilla had developed rather acute agoraphobia, that is, fear of the outside world.

## Relationships

### Jasper

Jasper served mildly as father figure. This was more pronounced for him, who actually knew that he was her great-grandfather. Priscilla is the first McAlistair he has real emotion for, in part because she reminded him of his daughter Fay (Priscilla’s grandmother) when she was young. Jasper says that Priscilla has the same eyes and smile as Fay did. Priscilla deeply cared for Jasper and genuinely loved and enjoyed his company, A feeling which was mutual. She was the first McAlister to have the foresight to listen to him before it was too late.

### Byron McAlister

Byron was Priscilla's father: She never knew him as he was taken away by police when she was a toddler and presumably killed.

### Charlotte McAlister

Charlotte was Priscilla's overbearing mother. She was raised by her mother since her father's disappearance. Due to her paranoia, She refused to let Priscilla continue preschool. Later on, Charlotte would be sent to a ward at an unknown date, leaving Priscilla isolated and alone. It is generally unclear what Priscilla's opinion of her is or if they were close.

## Trivia

* In the Dieselpunk era, the Voodoopunks would hold Priscilla's sacrifice in high regard and would refer to her as Saint Priscilla, singing a refrain: "deliver me Saint Priscilla." Saint Harlot was hired to find Saint Priscilla's Holy Shroud as a relic in order to revitalize the Voodoopunk religion.
* Priscilla is part of the Savior Soul line. She would next reincarnate into Constance.
* Priscilla and Jasper were reincarnations of the Monk and the Gambler, respectively. Priscilla's sacrifice ended the never ending card game that had been going on since the birth of New Albion.
* She is featured on the Priscilla and Jasper Play Cards shirt and poster in the official merch shop, with art drawn by PixelWayve