Mages of Interpol 15 (Youjo Senki)

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Main Characters:

Tanya's Wave Form by Sasika Guruge​

• Captain Tanya von Weiss
  • Aliases:
    • Agent Nichts
    • Devil of the Rhine
    • White Silver
    • (formerly before adoption) Tanya von Degurechaff
  • Description: Germanian war veteran who is hiding her secret identity as the most wanted person in the world for alleged war crimes. She is currently the Captain of the MI15 and lives with her housemate Sonnetto.
• Vice Captain Laurence Drake
  • Aliases:
    • Agent Masquerade
    • The Thespian
  • Description: Former spy of the Allied Kingdom with a long history of espionage in both the Persian Empire, Russy Federation, and Unified States. He has left his spy life behind and become an illusionist in the employ of Interpol.

Sonnetto by Naze​

• Officer Sonnetto
  • Aliases:
    • Agent Sonnetto
    • (Formerly before death) Roxanne Magnus, daughter of Oxyartes
  • Description: Former Empress of Persia and First Wife of Alexander Magnus. She was assassinated and was resurrected as a homunculus with the same memories as Roxanne. MI15 rescued her from a secret laboratory, and she later went through officer training and joined them. She is now an Officer for MI15 and lives with her housemate, Tanya.
• Officer Fang Shiyu
  • Aliases:
    • Agent Fang
  • Description: A martial artist and cultivator mage from Zhangzi. He joined MI15 after completing officer training. He sees his work primarily through the lens of self-improvement and advancement along the path of cultivation.

Amber Canary by Naze​

• Officer Amber Canary
  • Aliases:
    • Agent Calamity Amb
    • Agent C
    • The Tejas Sharpshooter
  • Description: An American veteran who suffers from a magical mutation that caused her to stop aging as a young child. She is over a hundred years old and carries the guilt of participating in the indigenous oppression efforts of the Unified States. Seeing the writing on the wall, she joined the Mages of Interpol in Europa before the Silver Legion could declare its genocidal war of conquest on the Aztec Empire to its South. She currently serves as MI15's arms specialist until the position gets formally filled. At that time, Amber will be transferred to Captain Elena Müller's team.

Side Characters:

• Captain Elena "Elya" Müller - A former Germanian spy who enabled Tanya to continue a life of violence in Interpol.
• Investigator Mary Sue (aka Bloody Valkyrie) - The perpetually oblivious Interpol officer from Legadonia whose life mission is to get vengeance on the ever-elusive Devil of the Rhine. In her last battle with the Devil, Mary transformed into something that looked like an angel and lost her ability to sense mana signature. Captain Müller keeps her busy as to prevent Mary from discovering that Tanya is the Devil of the Rhine.
• Matheus Weiss - the former vice commander under Tanya during the war. He adopted Tanya as his daughter right after the Great War in 1933. Figmund Sreud hypnotized him in 1934, and Matheus became trapped inside his own mind. His sudden absence in Tanya's life caused her immense grief.

Polyxena Mironova by Sasika Guruge

Polyxena Mironova by Naze​

• Polyxena Mironova (aka Jane Forger) - A former member of Tanechka's Angels from the Russy Federation. She currently works as a freelance assassin for the Allied Kingdom. Laurence "Masquerade" Drake is her on-and-off boyfriend. She has a dark sense of humor.

Borislava Kransi by Kanekuo

Borislava Kransi by Naze​

• Borislava Kransi - the Ace of the European Branch of the Tanechka's Angels. She comes from the Russy Federation and supported Tanechka's putsch against Josef Dzhugashvili and the Central Committee. She used to be Polyxena Miranova's girlfriend.
• Liliya Ivanova Tanechka - former political officer of the Old Russy Federation who led a putsch against the Central Committee. She credits young Tanya's tears for inspiring her to rise in another revolution, as she never wanted to see another person suffer under the evils committed by the Old Federation.
• Richard Diamond - an American plutocratic robber baron. He does extensive business with the Unified States government, which is run by the Silver Legion theocratic dictatorship. He believes that the world should be constantly at war as competition encourages evolution and innovation.

Mary Canary by Sasika Guruge

Mary Canary by Naze​

• Mary Canary (Tejas Twister) - an American mage of extraordinary power. Richard Diamond uses her family as leverage to control her into doing his dirty work. She is Amber Canary's older sister who stayed behind with her descendents in the Unified States because Richard Diamond has them somewhere.

Khuyana González by Sasika Guruge​

• Doctor Khuyana González - a medical physician and officer in MI54. After the Great War, she became a pacifist and struggled with inner conflict. She specializes in Andean magecraft, which utilizes plants to store unique spell formulae.
• Doctor Harrison Jones - an archeologist and officer in MI54. He studied archeology at the University of Hindianna but became a crime-fighting mage in Argentum after the Great War. He specializes in using ancient magical artifacts, which he uses with permission for the good of the people.

Miu Tsui-fa by Sasika Guruge​

• Miu Tsui-fa - a member of Tanechka's Angels from Zhangzi. She specializes in Spirit Body magic, which allows her to create a secondary body out of magic that fights for her. She is Fang Shiyu's mother and taught him cultivation until he completed his dao formation.

Captain Ouyang by Naze​

• Captain Ouyang - the leader and magic user of MI12. The Uruan Dynasty castrated him as a child and made him their chief enforcer before he betrayed them to get his vengeance. He prefers the company of men to women but appreciates talking to Tanya. Someday, he wants to see Berun, where he can live more freely as himself.

Jing-wei by Sasika Guruge​

• Vice Captain Jing-wei - an officer and magic item prodigy of MI12. Her parents bound her feet, which resulted in her being unable to walk without pain and balance issues. She opts to float most of the time. Due to receiving too many magic items from Emperor Zhu, Jing-wei developed severe magical mutations. She specializes in charging crystals with warding magic.
• Emperor Zhu Chongba - a penniless peasant who miraculously became the Emperor of Zhangzi while serving in the Red Turban coup against the Uruan dynasty. However, their rule did not satisfy the Nationalist faction in the south or the Communist faction in the north. Zhu is genderfluid and switches between presenting as a man and a woman based on convenience and comfort. Fang Shiyu and their wife are the only ones who know this.

Demiguichi Akira by Sasika Guruge​

• Demiguichi Akira - a tall female member of Tanechka's Angels. Despite being a mage, she has little combat ability. Instead, she specializes in propaganda. Her focus is learning about the people and their living conditions first before crafting a strategy for revolution. Akira breaks with the Russy Communist Orthodoxy due to her belief that communism should adapt to the cultural conditions of a country and should not suppress religion.

 

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Short Summary of the New Russy Federation:
The overthrow of the Old Federation had included several different tendencies in the Marksist movement known as the United Front. While Brotskyists formed the governing majority, they were stuck with a fractious political climate where there were frequent accusations between the various factions of being revisionists, opportunists, class collaborationists, etc.… Infighting among Marksists was common, but they held the Russy Federation together through three positions: scientific socialism, opposition to capitalism, and bureaucratic decentralization. Scientific Socialism meant that each strand of praxis could prove their model's efficacy instead of trying to force something to work. Opposition to capitalism allowed them to agree that as much as they disagreed with each other, their fighting benefitted the rich capitalists — their common enemy. Bureaucratic decentralization allowed greater autonomy of the regional zones to implement policies that worked for them rather than imposing a cookie-cutter solution that didn't translate across different material circumstances.

Brotskyists tended towards a much more aggressive model of globally overthrowing capitalist rule through a doctrine of Permanent Revolution.

The Russy Federation's Geopolitical Positions (not exhaustive):

• Joseon: Significantly supported the People's Republic of Joseon (PRJ) and backed Chim Il-sung, who was both popular for his resistance efforts against the Akinese and loyal to the Russy Federation. The significant military build-up in the East was because they had intelligence that the Global North Alliance had stationed their superweapon Trident (Mary Canary) near the Akitsuhima Dominion.
• Germania: This country is essential to the Russy Federation's ambitions for World Communism and national security. Not only do Russys have revanchist sentiments over the Great War invasion, but the rise of Rudolph Himmler's openly exterminationist ideology has pushed General Secretary Ivan Smirnov to invade the northern half of Germania, including Polandia. This action has led to the West decrying the Russy Federation as imperialists and hypocrites, causing the Russy Federation to burn through much of its reputation capital. The Russy Federation seeks not only to control the Rhineland industry before it can be turned into a war machine but wants to cow the Global North Alliance into a position where they know they can't win if they continue their belligerence. The Russy Federation has backed the Germanian United Front led by Hilary Brecht.
• Jugoslavja and Magna Rumeli: Both regions are in a Civil War, and while the Old Federationist has pushed to abandon those positions to de-escalate tensions with the Capitalists, the Comintern and the Russy Federation continue to send aid to the communist parties there. (1) Capitalists in Germania have backed the Legalist SS against the Russy-backed Orthodox forces, who are credibly accused of ethnic displacement and massacring Legalists. The GNA has recently come around to bombing Jugoslavja as a way to convert the country to their control.
• Viet Bam and Eastern Persia: The Russy Federation has provided arms and supplies but has had to reduce aid to focus resources on Germania and Joseon, which General Secretary Ivan Smirnov considers a more serious situation. The Vietbamese use Tanechka's praxis of a People's War that the West characterized as terrorism. Eastern Persia has a Russy Federation loyal government that has been suppressing Western-backed theocratic extremists. The Global North alliance has propped a brutal military dictatorship in Western Persia after Emperor Cassander passed away. Simultaneously, the GNA has loudly condemned Eastern Persia as a puppet government that requires an international military intervention.
• Ukrane: Leon Brotsky championed the cause of an an independent Ukrane during the putsch that overthrew the Old Federation. When he came into power, he extended an extensive right of national self-determination and reparations due to the Old Federation's crimes against humanity there. (2)
• Zhangzi: Chairman Tao Tse-tung of the People's Republic of Zhangzi accused Leon Brotsky and his administration of doing historical revisionism in order to solidify power by denouncing and purging the Old Federationist on trumped-up crimes. There is a mounting Zhangzi-Russy split due to ideological differences like this. Still, those are somewhat tempered by the Russy's commitment to facilitating as much famine relief to Post-War Zhangzi as they can manage, given their numbers of ongoing operations.
• Ispagnia: the Russy Federation conducted a successful clandestine regime change from the Western-backed fascist government by backing a Brotskyist vanguardist revolution. The Unified States decried the Russy's "illegal meddling with foreign governments, violating the sovereignty of Ispagnia". The crimes against humanity of the Brotskyists, especially against the Universalist church, have pushed more Universalists towards the anti-communist camp across Southern Europa.
• Argentum: The Federation supported the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP), which followed the working-class Insurgency Process to counter the Western-backed fascist government. This Insurgency Process includes using tactics like using explosives to kill their political enemies in public venues like restaurants. Due to MI54's actions, the fascist government's paramilitary Argentum Anticommunist Alliance (AAA) has been significantly weakened, and political dissent has been allowed to flourish more freely.
• Abya Yala: the Russy Federation pressured Tanechka to back the World Federationalists, who were more friendly to Brotskyists. After the fall of the Silver, the West propagandized the United Front's murdering of Silver Legionists taken prisoner. This, in part, led to Amber Calamity's arrest. Currently, the Russy Federation has called on the Abya Yala to find ways to bypass the Albish port blockades and take up more of the slack of providing their agricultural bounty to the world communist movement. The Aztec Triple Alliance has taken advantage of the opportunity to charge expensive tariffs on Abya Yala goods and demand greater reparations in the form of return of historical territory and resources. Abya Yala has no desire to antagonize Hattada, who was their ally during the revolution, or the Aztec Triple Alliance, who were victims of the Silver Legion's conquest and extinctionist campaigns.

Citations:

1. This represents a major split from real history in a rapidly escalating conflict between capitalists and the communist movement.
2. Trotsky, Leon. "Independence of the Ukraine and Sectarian Muddleheads." Socialist Appeal. Vol. III No. No. 70, 15 September 1939, p. 2 & Vol. III No. 71, 18 September 1939, p. 2. <https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1939/07/ukraine.htm>

 

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The Fear and Change Arc has been split in two for readibility and ease of editing.

The Soul Space Arc will be in Threadmarks with new titles.
The real world arc with Fang Shiyu's team will be in Side Stories under the heading Bombs Away.

If you have any other advice, let me know.

I personally felt that I let this arc grow unwieldly and will try to tighten it up when I revisit it. Sorry for the inconvenience.