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?

A "bad end" AU of Gunmetal Olympus where Persephone isn't content with being a weapon but has ambitions to become a monarch in her own right. Contains dynamics that may be of interest to enjoyers of Empty Spaces and mechsplo.

Expected release: September/October 2026. The book will be about 45,000 words.