A Shadow Resides: Armored Core

You are the operator, and you pull the strings. Command your Ravens, scheme for power, and wrap your heart in an armored core.

The City, controlled for decades by the man known to its citizens as ‘Father’, has become a battlefield for Ravens, as rising powers fight for supremacy using these mercenaries and their powerful humanoid weapons, ‘Armored Cores’, as proxies in a never-ending economic war.

You are an operator, one of the intelligence specialists that directs and commands Ravens during missions - and through that position comes power. Pull your Ravens’ strings, and gather power from the shadows beneath the very nose of your mysterious employer ‘Mother’, even as the City is subject to attacks by mysterious unmanned weapons…

Based on the Armored Core series by legendary game studio and two-time Game of the Year award winner FromSoftware. Dedicated to XiombargsStoryteller.

WARNING: Rated TV-MA-DLSV for violence, strong language, and sexual content; reader discretion is advised. Images and music are provided for readers' pleasure; most (but not all) images are under spoiler tags. Chapters marked with ???? contain sexual content, while chapters marked with ???? contain recaps of the story so far! Originally posted on fiction.live and available now or soon on several other sites under the name Queen Fiona (or similar).