In Her Image is a story I’m writing with Cirice Gray, functioning as an “alternate universe” to the main Gunmetal Olympus books. It started off as a bit of an in-joke and quickly grew into an actual story: what if Persephone and her attendant Madalithea have a whole toxic yuri thing going on, while managing a parasocial audience?
A sadistic mecha pilot with mind control pheromones. The innocent nun she wants to possess. A plot to rule the world…
Madalithea, acolyte to Hades, is summoned one day by Persephone, pilot and champion to Lord Hades. As she enters Persephone’s service as a handmaiden, she’s drawn into managing Persephone’s stream and the parasocial crowd that follows the champion… but she also soon realizes that the lady may just be more than a capable eidolon pilot. For Persephone is compelling, intoxicating, so much so that to be near her is to forget all else.
And one of Persephone’s subscribers, meantime, has grown obsessed with both Persephone’s new gacha game and her new stream moderator slash handmaiden. What lengths will this woman go through to see Madalithea removed and supplanted—and where will she stop to make her gacha account the most powerful in all the land?
To get the most out of it, you should first read The Maw of Spring, a story where Persephone invites women to become dolls that look exactly like Persephone. In the same vein and continuing right in the same continuity, In Her Image is a story that’s one part shitpost (Persephone is a streamer! she launches a gacha game! there’s a trans woman NEET who’s way too into her stream!) and one part psychological horror (mind control pheromones, dollification, mindbreaking). Madalithea’s slow corruption will really appeal to you if you want something like Perfect Blue set in Gunmetal Olympus.
It can be read exclusively on Cirice’s patreon, but we’ll collect it into a book at a later date and put that up on preorder soon, so stay tuned for that! While reading the main books will give you a lot of context, if the story’s premise interests you (and the specific themes it deals with), you can more or less read this on its own.
Gunmetal Olympus / Hades Calculus 