#pallene

WHO

Name: Anastasia Ahn  Dossier: Pallene Age: 23 Mutant Risk Level: Four Affiliation and Occupation: The Jem Family, Informant Gender/Pronouns: UTP Faceclaim: Adeline Rudolph 

POWER

EMOTIONAL MANIPULATION: The ability to alter the emotional state of another person, suspected by scientists to be an ability to manipulate neurotransmitter generation or suppression in the nerves of another, which may explain why some who have a high degree of control over this power can even cause others to feel pain. The complexity of emotion, duration of the emotion, and the distance from one which can be manipulated depends upon the control the user has over their ability. While this ability does not typically cause physical harm, those who possess this power are generally considered threats for the dangerous potential it has. Though they are young, Anastasia has great experience with their powers, able to manipulate the emotions of those in her sight for a considerable amount of time.

AESTHETIC

They are that feeling just before a first kiss, that rush of romantic anticipation jolting down one’s spine. They are plastic roses, beautiful and sentimental in their undying way yet always with the reminder that they are artificial, that they will never be the real thing. They are every vengeance-fueled breakup song on the radio, empty angry threats piercing through to the listener’s heart as the bass does. They are waterproof mascara, refusing to ruin the beautiful facade with something so staining as the black watery liquid. They are hearts on strings and heads in clouds, their own emotional marionette show, a puppet master with perfectly manicured nails ready for the curtain to rise.

BIOGRAPHY

To be posted after acceptance.

CONNECTIONS

CHANCE MATTHEWS, Missed Opportunity: Oh, how close Anastasia had been to basking in the rays of the golden child of The Jem Family themself. For all the closeness that was once between them, the not-so-accidental touches and not-so-subtle flirting (mostly on Anastasia’s part), they couldn’t help but notice when Chance began to pull away from them in all senses of the word. Something isn’t sitting right with them, and though perhaps it’s their usual scorned lover nature kicking in, they want to know just what is keeping the other so distant.

SHAE KNOX, Childhood Friend: Once upon a time, it felt like Anastasia, Shae, and Chance could rule the world. The future of Jem seemed to be in good hands, at least until the rift driven between Anastasia and Chase. Regardless of it all, Shae had been with Anastasia through everything, and though Shae sometimes seemed too good for someone like Anastasia, they stuck together through it all. It didn’t help that Anastasia might exaggerate to make themself look better, in Shae’s eyes, but hey, they both once made a childhood promise to each other to be friends no matter what, right?

ISAAC CASTILLA, Target: They think he’s beneath their abilities, frankly. He’s easy, their superiors told them. Too easy, they countered. But information is information, they were reminded, and if there’s anyone likely to let something slip, it was Isaac. The boy was practically a magnet for trouble, and they are no exception to the things he seemingly effortlessly attracts.

Performance Comparison Pallene vs. Lua 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 vs. C

Installing Pallene is described in the previous post: Installing Pallene Compiler. In this post we test the performance of Pallene versus C, Lua 5.4, and LuaJIT.

1. Array Access. I checked a similar program as in Performance Comparison C vs. Lua vs. LuaJIT vs. Java.

function lua_perf(N:integer, S:integer) local t:{ {a:float, b:float, f:float} } = {} for i = 1, N do t[i] = { a = 0.0, b = 1.0, f =…

Pallene is a Lua based language. In contrast to Lua, which is untyped, Pallene is typed. A good paper on Pallene is “Pallene: A companion language for Lua”, by Hugo Musso Gualandi, and Roberto Ierusalimschy.

From above paper:

The compiler itself is quite conventional. After a standard parsing step, it converts the program to a high-level intermediate form and from that it emits C code, which is…

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I don’t want to explain Pallene’s experiences too specifically, because I want to give applicants free reign over that, but I’ll try my best to be informative! As explained in this page here, informants are tasked with gathering information; this could be from other gangs (this is the most common use of them) or other organizations like government or anti-mutant ones. Their operations can range from covert operations (such as assimilating into a rival gang) to secret negotiation, depending on the task at hand, the gang’s preferences, and how long they’ve been an informant! Pallene’s abilities give them the unique ability to bring emotions into their coercion, which could be something interesting to explore in an app. 

Sure thing! I think using Pallene’s connections can inspire some plots. You could describe a childhood memory featuring Chance and Shae, or how things got to how they are now with both of them. The childhood connections imply that they’ve grown up around The Jem Family; a good prompt would be to explore a memory about what it was like growing up with these influences and maybe what influenced them to join themself! Also, a good prompt that anyone can use is a typical day in their life as it relates to their position or using their power. Hope this helps!