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A cooperative fanfiction, set almost immediately after the events of Armored Core: For Answer. It's written by multiple fanfiction authors (Zero Reaper, Krimzon-8, xXThe perfect SoldierXx, n147258, Sakai the Demon and Precursor), each of whom has multiple characters featured.

There are many main characters, but the two major heroes are Ghost and Kruger. Immediately afterwards is Felix, with Daven, Razer and Deimos being there as well. These core characters are also the first character of their respective writer: Zero Reaper with Ghost, Krimzon-8 with Kruger, xXThe perfect SoldierXx with Felix, n147258 with Daven, Sakai the Demon with Deimos, and Precursor with Razer.

The story begins with Ghost and Holly, two members of a reformed ORCA, and their recruitment of Kruger, an instrumental member for their rise. With these three, ORCA begins to rise to the top, taking on the League who lorded over the rest of the world and trying to do their best for Earth. However, as Ghost becomes more and more ruthless and Kruger begins to question his actions, the members of ORCA are slowly turned against each other...

The main writing is done on this forum: Armored Core Post-FA Era.


Armored Core: from the Ashes provides examples of:

  • Alpha Couple: As of the Sahara battle, there is really only one couple that began in the RP officially that is working out. It's between the berserker blood knight Razer and the relatively calm Maria.
  • Always Someone Better: Averted. Ghost and Kruger are shown to be, by some margin, the most powerful human beings in all of history, who could almost be called gods because of the fact that no-one can touch them on the battlefield. This is something that Ghost does not forget.
  • Armored Coffins: Vero Nork's death is this as she couldn't get out of the cockpit.
  • Ax-Crazy: Ghost's abilities in particular are mentioned as bordering on uncontrollable when he's in his Demon state.
  • Badass Family: The Thermidors are a subversion - They're all fighting each other most of the time. Seeing as Ghost is the one who basically wiped the Thermidor family off the face of the Earth, maybe he's just the family's resident internal grim reaper.
  • Badass Normal: Any non-augmented pilot that is high-ranked, especially true with Zach who is about as normal as they come and yet one of the absolute top pilots.
  • Broken Ace: Ghost. He's a master NEXT pilot, a brilliant Chessmaster, and has astounding physical abilities, capable of taking on armies with his bare hands. He's also a nihilistic monster, a Self-Made Orphan with a ruthless streak the size of a small continent, willing to commit omnicide to bring peace to the world. And that's just the beginning. Word of God states that this is because he tried so hard to be the ultimate human being, the perfect warrior in every conceivable way, that it cost him his sanity - and literally everything else in his entire life.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: Ghost; he constantly wears black and dark grey clothing, all of his mechs are painted black and blood-red, he has black hair and (under the influence of his Demon abilities) red eyes - hell, even his name screams this... but he's the hero.
  • Flaw Exploitation: Most pilots can pick a flaw in an opponent's style, and abuse it.
  • From Nobody to Nightmare:
    • Played straight with Daven, who was just a basic mechanic before and partly during Armored Core: For Answer. He proceeded to become the third-command in ORCA, and a high-ranked pilot.
    • Interestingly inverted with Ghost, who, since he was nineteen, has been possibly the largest single force in the world, having more or less dictated the course of the Lynx War, was pulling the strings behind ORCA, and is well, until recently the commander of the world's second-largest military faction.
  • Noble Demon: Ghost plays this trope as straight as he can, right down to extremely intentionally making himself appear evil (Word of God says that there will be a reason revealed for this later on). And then there's the fact that this trope is even a pun when applied to him.
  • True Companions: Averted with Ghost's team. They're all psychopathic monsters to some degree or another, and little more than UnwittingPawns to Ghost.

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