Necocyaotl International

That's as casual as it can get. The worldwide phenomena is no smokescreen and much less a phenomena, it's just some people from around (and by around, continents apart) which had their own stuff, their own turf, but got chance meeting prospects and had an urge, a calling if you would, to take a stand. Not figuratively, and not by third parties, but by themselves. There's no paperwork but quite a lot of other work to bring about this joint. Believing in no luck, in no fate, from the most methodical to the superstitious, this movement is organic in the sense no background was evaluated to it's formation - no background but only one certainty - they could no longer cooperate with something which used their very existence to waste unheard ones. Aware the tech, gadgets and power they held was so great and unique it couldn't be shared, they'd try to make an outreach - no secret club, no pack of friends, all should have the choice to fight. All should see the enmy clearer. Most of times, even your neighbors and colleagues made the greatest threat.
Perhaps that's a price of the globalization. They denied it's financial scheme, it's pyramidal structure. But they rejoiced how their lives met one another.
Another life was possible. But every turn required greater struggle, greater sacrifices.
This world-event in the worlds of APKALLU and IXIPTLA (actually, the very same single world) takes place in mid 2010, and there was a secret, informal "International" to gather different participators in world-wide struggles, from occupations in Mexico, to occupied farms in Russia, personnell hunting pirate ships and releasing enslaved individuals in Indian Ocean, to dragons acting for the preservation of their environment.
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Both stories share the same universe. Sometimes they cross paths. At the moment, this "International" is most a meeting right before the events in which culminate the implementation of the "Holy Roman Empire". Aware that the Empire is no news and from a democracy it's been just a change in the seats, another unlikely (but totally understandably) enemy to the groups were mostly independent movements that ceded to bureaucratical machines. As so, the "Necocyaotl" are before all, individualists, seeking no new nation-state, no new party. On the here and now, their actions are seen with spite and judged as villany - arsons to theft, planned assassinations and capture of key-personnel. Getting rid of mafia bosses to slave-traders, soon they too target official forces. All lives are in the risk. Some embark on a double, triple, multi-lives, others have nothing but the life of struggle, forever on the run. Not usually what they look here, right? Remember that you need not to have action as a profession (activism), those who make the difference are aware of their limits - they're not alone, yet they follow first themselves - the outreach being altruistic is a mere consequence, not always the intention.
The group here goes as casual as they can. In few months, not just theirs, but the face of many others will follow the pamphlets of "wanted ones" by a debaable authority...




Kai is a master decoder from Hawaii. His past has been marked by constant travelling, his familiar background has ties to smugglers and an avid network in the Southeastern Asia and Northern Pacific. Initiated in the bounty-hunting squads of AXIS as Agent Rho, his life became a full schedule of hunting in service of dreadful personnel, to which he retain undesired memories of. He uses network and the liquid power for infiltration purposes, mastering at some extent shape-shifting. Wanted for alleged "piracy" and deviating bank accounts, he resorted to secret groups and consortiums in northern country. He uses a "free information" narrative but it'll be hard to heal his repute. He was present in the Mission Atlantis, the birthplace of the Necocyaotl as a whole, where he knew his liege had him as a disposable unit, and his suit was worth as long as he hadn't suffered damage from it. How long can he take the usage of such unsafe tech remains unknown. But unknown is never enough for the information scientist.

Gus is a young Minoican (anything like Greece) boy who behind a silent, somewhat shy personality, has an urge to act, below his anxiety lays the power of the Triton, being to which he can shapeshift ever since like two years ago, and one who's been rampant in diminishing the safety of the sea, for trade, tourism, as indirectly from his declared war on the fishery industry (and he'd not think twice on raising an arm against anyone fishing at all). Market dwindled, illegal immigration became a crude reality, and safety diminished drastically, revealing it's true facade as a map of hunting, piracy, smugglers and profit from every intent of human action into a exploiting system, one the Triton sworn to sink. Mapping the world and the seven seas for two years, his most challenging prospect was to conciliate with a human life, the morose of citizenship, and family relations. At home most in the sea, he faces with disgust the reality of the blue desert, it's trashing, the lack of rest on that of which as humans we just saw as a drifting crossroads for rest. Knowing nature truly is a hell, he'd not think twice on marking out the ones behind the civilization process and let the tides consume them as well, making the damage equal to both sides, if he couldn't handle the good sides, he'd make the inevitable hell a step closer.

Melissa has been an AXIS agent herself, and old acquaintance to Kai (she's from Melbourne, Australia), fighting Gus as the Triton not long ago, while discovering his true self on the events of Mission Scirocco. While not fond of the cruelty of the young boy, she was aware of his conflicts and to the exposure to the real source of the threat they were facing, meaning it he wasn't as inhuman as others would have, he was a wild card against the rising tyrants. Her approach has been most direct and targeted on individuals with as much power as their (on scientific means) as to those with greater influence, i.e. powerheads, while the Triton wouldn't avoid destroying slightly "lesser evils". Playing the game in field with her armor of speed, she is aware as Kai that their power depends on the maintenance of the armors, and it changes everything the fact they were once backed by a scientifical and research team which would rather destroy them now, labelled as "traitors", and now, they find supporters in those which deserted their former liege, to those which opposed it to begin with. Their trust is shaken and trembling, but they take part in the international by personal invitation of the Triton. On her case, it was mostly of the human behind the shell, one who has feelings for her.

Lanzo has been on the frontline since a young age, as his community declared indepence and found struggle in everyday as autonomy meant freedom as much as it meant tiresome works and lack of support other than vows and 'best wishes' from a supposed international community. Not amused by the height of the events, he's all too used with the sporadic nature of such "movements", putting little to no faith on the Necocyaotl, if it wasn't for the salvaging of weapons far greater than his own. While his first vow would be to the community he was raised in rural Mexico, the events wich he triggered by the theft of OMEGA made him devoid of such sense, and he's aware he's been trying to escape the daily life since long ago. His life was meant to the frontlines in the moment he realized a life without struggle isn't worth living. Moments such as the international only offer him a scope that while power make others afraid and unrelated of his, it makes greater the urge to share what he's got with others. People who need his insight gather in this Informal International, and he's got to leave some pride behind in other to make the effects of that power, not his name, be everlasting.

Alissa is a newcomer in the struggle, as in the most cases, made without a choice, but by the urge of survival. A Belarusian girl who've made a pact with the Baphomet entity to assure her safety at a persecution and hunt by the KGB, she became aware of much more than the functioning of the repressive state she was in. She still relies on her common life to withstand the height and burden of the powers the pact bring about, yet she's embarked on a quest to the darkest corners of Eastern Europe to reach out the truth about her powers. That's an interesting prospect as it's easy to find even the KGB, ultimately tied to a cohalition with southern american Tahuantinsuyu, despite in bad terms with NATO and newly christened HRE, have the same treatment with people such as her own - making the smokscreen "necocyaotl" fit like a glove. Approached by another member, she's still uneasy with the outcome of the fight.

Will is a brazilian youngster who becomes the speedster lizard Paynal, arguably a pioneer on the phenomena, for the sense he made nothing more or less than the original "animal liberation" "activists", only that beyond human efficiency at an incredible rate and speed, more efficiently and giving way to violence - making victims out of those work has been making much more victims than one could count. As everything political get incredible proportions, like the Triton, a moment he was breaking a jail, the next he'd be infiltrating and finding out the crude reality of gangster, mafia bosses, and of crime syndicates, for freedom alone was insufficient, yet security meant everything when you were by the gun. A prime tactician, maybe to his fast-thinking as he'd be used to see everything happenning by like ten times faster, his only slow pacing was towards some human relations he'd leave out of his roster. Differently of some, he embrace the fighting on a whole level, for it tighten the ties with his comrades, such as Alissa. Despite apart by the Atlantic Ocean, the Triton is arguably his best friend, for they're related to this shape-shifting reptile like power. The difference is that he has skin to shed...

Fafnir Hreidmarson was a reputed envionmental activist in Norrland and a distinguished Asatroo practicioner. His views were taken as radical by some, yet he was highly respected by his fellows. All went wrong, or in a different upside down after his marriage. The ring he used in the wedding was, at time unexplainably, a cursed gift, which turned him into a dragon. At time, the movement for environmental preservation was tainted by the most distinguished fronts, from blood-sucking neo-liberal publicity-induced NGOs, to retro-active struggles not slightly akin to it's cause, mediated by bureaucratic syndicates, to loose mentions of ethnic tensions perpetrated in the past, mostly stained with even xenophobic bias recurrent of stupid scenes. On this patchwork of political struggle, a clean figure like Fafnir didn't bode well in this 'circus'. But he was by no mean the only "dragon" here. His subsequent life in exile actually approached to greater reality of how the humans were genetically engineered to be easy food to the true detainers of the "food-chain" concept, the Jotunn. It all went downhill as he discovered much more. The mind of a dragon could hold much more, actually. Aware to the innards of the world from centuries before, he should resort to Triton and Paynal, and then to even older allies to make work of the information he just processed. His role was re-vitalized, as he gathered some "followers" as well.

Dazbog was raised in Lithuania but he traveled everything from behind the Iron Curtain, his political struggle is left to the dark and academicals deem it a patchwork of distinct, though to be irreconcilable spectrums, but his resolve lies mostly in the idenification of an enemy - the church - one which incorporates the bad aspects of a supposed global community, while embracing diversity and distinct backgrounds in his own cell of action. This 'pan-slavic' supporter might have been the closest to propose a new 'nation-state', but alongside years of struggle and betrayal, no one but a handful would trust him, ever since his wanted status as an homicidal arsonist. But his fire arms makes it he be both feared and respected, as much as sought after. Despite all, he's also good-natured when with friends, mostly when relaxing and drinking with others. He has had retinues with series of followers and underground sponsors, prospect to which most members have as a problematic tenure. He finds it relateable to gather with norse Fafnir to sketch a different future for the shattered Europe. Their resolve has been greatly strenghtened by the Black knights and Cuauthemoc, to name a few. Dazbog personally feels he owes the Triton a big time in organizing like-minded individuals and occupations by the margins of the european continent, and securing lagoons where he keep training centers for militarized personnel - all of which makes the core of the resistance during  the events of the Rapture.
 
Loners at best for over two years of endless actions, Gus and Will goes underground as prime tacticians, for they've built up quite the network after many run-ins in their common cause, which would be in all sense connected to animal liberation, land reform, anti-authoritarian movements, and everything from that which targets evil by it's roots, thus officially radicalized, as managing thefts, arsons, to property damage and declarations of war. Their most common enemies are hydras like the corporations, churches and the state institutions across the world, to which sentient beings are but disposable products. Now to that which matters:
Before Necocyaotl became most of all the recognized core of resistance, at least two fronts (namesake NecocYaotl and AWQA, later as Arima Division) head the events to which made the forces of legitimacy and the slavery it supposedly 'scorn' become visibly suffused in a single side, waiting the darkest corners of the church to make a first move, justifying the repressive apparel of the Inquisitionary offices. As the events were made by the very same individuals (in different teams), yet were unrelated to the beginners, but cohesive to the trained eyes, these two "names", one which figured from Pacific to Indian Ocean, the other which sprung from the Atlantic, reached Europe and most notably the divisive Brimghtonian Kingdom (one which still managed most of the commerce and trading the Triton tried to dismantle) as NecocYaotl, "NY" for short, causing certain concern for some 'native' scenes, most notably polluted joints and mobs of faux actions which accused it of globalism. As it was not an individual nor institution, it was hard to track.

AWQA is the quechua word for fiend, aversary, and from which stems the verb awqay, which means to fight. Gus mixes it with the most ideological scope of his praxis - anarchism as is, but more than the critique of the state and private property (without both, sorry, that makes you no anarchist), mixing with a scientific approach, independent and autonomous from the status quo (one which ostensibly relies to dated, retrograde set of hypocritical "morals"). "Blue" Anarchism would be the ultimate end for his ideal, but of course even he knows that's a long shot - which doesn't mean the idea itself shouldn't be brought about, for it'll become relevant only after extensive study of the concept. He chose a quechua word out of his interest for such culture. As for the group itself, it was never meant to be a large office, so the name end up as much more of a smokescreen narrative.
NECOCYAOTL is the nahuatl word for enemy of both sides, literally "traitor" and was itself adopted in another context. By the time of events, in 2010, both Triton and Paynal are sketched out in the public light as if they were working together, as if they were part of a conspiracy. While that was an exaggeration as much as we could expect of anything coming from mass media, several parts and dots could be traced to understand the world was then what it has never been before. The power stemming from their inhumanity found no barriers in those which have sworn to defeat them. The Necocyaotl was the name a group of true direct supporters of Paynal - or rather those which depended mutually on his feats to see what they wanted done - by that read those about indigenous people's rights, animal rights, anarchism and the likes. Spoken by the very god of hunger, the word necocyaotl meant all of those which neglected the ways of hunger, but still didn't want to live a life of lies, to deny reality. 
All changed and the groups, cells of acion came to be when science was in their hands, having salvaged technology, and this time, outliving the endless scope of resistance into an attack to set their future, whoever went by such wayys were deemed "necocyaotl". Even AWQA came to be referred in this way, as a certain set of individuals adopted the Arima Division name.

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