In Her Image

A sadistic mecha pilot and the innocent nun she must have at any cost. 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?

In historical sources, Persephone is recorded as a god of the Underworld in her own right, predating Hades. This AU is a nod to that, imagining a timeline where Persephone isn’t content with being a weapon but has ambitions to become a monarch in her own right. Also, Demeter is normal in this one, though Khrysothemis is much less normal than in the mainline books, being vicious and also viciously in love with Persephone. The book is projected to be about 40,000-50,000 words long.

In Her Image is a mindbreak “bad end” AU with dynamics that’ll interest readers who enjoy the witch/doll dynamics in empty spaces, as Persephone comes to own Madalithea and “dollifies” her. It’s quite a lot darker than the primary Gunmetal Olympus books. Please read the following list, which functions as both content notes and a list of themes.

Content notes/tags: dubcon, noncon, exhibitionism, voyeurism, mind control pheromones, mind control lactation