Unstarvation
Emily Erikson is a young woman with a problem. Unemployed, she’s living with her boyfriend, and struggling to find a job, but nothing seems to work out. Finally, one day, she spots an advert for a clinical trial, and, with nothing else working out, applies. The trial is for a procedure that, it’s hoped, will cure world starvation.
Getting the shots, Emily is sent home with a list of instructions on what to do, including weekly visits to the test centre. The trial is a success, for over the next six months, despite a significant cut in her food intake and a rigorous exercise regime, emily has gained 26 pounds (a rate of about one pound a week), bringing her to 153 pounds total.
Unfortunately, at the final assessment, it’s discovered that Emily is three weeks pregnant, and so the procedure to correct her metabolism can’t be undertaken without an abortion, which Emily refuses, deciding to wait until after she’s given birth to have her metabolism reverted.
Six weeks pass, and Emily gains another nine pounds. Finally, she gets a job. Unfortunately, it’s an office job, and a stressful one at that, which immediately disrupts her rigorous exercise schedule. The first month, she gains another 15 pounds.
Unfortunately, worse is to come for Emily, as her increasing weight begins to impact her relationship with her boyfriend. After just under three months, her weight has crossed the 200 lb threshold, and her boyfriend finally tells her he’s had enough. The breakup leaves her distraught, and she can no longer muster the resolve to continue fighting the losing battle with her weight.
By the time she applies for her maternity leave, three weeks before her due date, Emily’s weight has risen to 266 pounds, and the final three weeks sees it rise yet further, to over 280 pounds. Three weeks pass, from the birth, and the company that ran the clinical trial phones her up to check on her, by which point, she’s brushing 300 pounds.
The procedure fortunately corrects Emily’s metabolism, but the company can’t do a thing about her weight. Returning to work, a month later, she finally catches a break when one of the IT department in the office asks her out on a date. They’re married a year later, and Emily is soon expecting a second child.
End of an Act
Martin Fletcher is an actror down on his luck. There are few roles going for someone like him, not bad-looking, but not exceptionally handsome, or at all well-known. Finally, a role comes up, but, upon investigating, he’s not sure he wants it, since it’s an indie-studio production, and he’ll spend most of it wearing a ‘fat-suit’. Still, a role is a role, and so, after a bit more deliberating, he finally applies.
Martin quickly finds out he won’t actually be wearing a suit, as the special gel-foam is glued directly to his skin. It’s also heavier than other foams, to give him a better sense of weight.
Two months into the year-and-a-half filming schedule, Martin finds his weight has risen, from a slender 132 pounds, to a slightly plump 146 pounds. He protests, but can’t bring himself to walk out, and ruin the young (and pretty) producer’s dreams. Unfortunately, things don’t improve, as switching to a conventional fat-suit proves impossible mid-filming, and so he forces himself to keep using the gel-foam, on the provisor of getting 25% of the net profits at the end.
As filming comes to a close, Martin finally breathes a sigh of relief that it’s all over. Unfortunately, his acting career is in tatters, with his weight having climbed to over 260 pounds. There is a silver lining in that the producer’s boyfriend has left her over the time the movie took to complete, and she ends up turning to him for emotional support. The two get married a year later.
Father’s Milk
Joshua Cameron is a young man with a problem. His girlfriend, Jennifer - a rising star in an insurance firm - wants children wants children, but also knows that that will likely ruin her chances of promotion. One day, Joshua sees an ad in a paper advertising for guinea-pigs for a ‘male lactation enablement’ procedure. Investigating, he finds out it’s exactly what it’s stated to be, an experimental procedure to allow men to nurse babies. After talking it over with Jenny, and noting that his own job offers much less of a chance for improvement, he signs up to the program.
The procedure takes four months, and by the end of it, Joshua can indeed nurse, though has to take daily supplements. The procedure is not without side effects, in that while taking them, his body can’t produce sperm, and he has to watch his diet or he’ll end up putting on weight. Fortunately, if he stops taking the supplements this eventually reverses.
Two months after the procedure, Joshua and Jennifer get married, though in a show of support, he’s the one to change his name, becoming Joshua Sanderson. A month later, Jenny is pregnant.
Jennifer does take a few weeks maternity leave as the eight-month mark rolls around, which the two of them use to get Joshua used to the sensation of being nursed. The birth is on them soon after, and just a week afterwards, Jennifer returns to work.
Joshua quickly finds that being a full-time parent is a difficult job, especially as he agrees to bear all of the night-time feedings (Jennifer sleeps with ear-plugs). Between broken sleep patterns and baby-care and housework during the day, Joshua quickly finds himself putting on weight, gaining over 30 pounds by the six-month mark. This, however, only seems to lavish extra attention from Jennifer.
Two years after their first child, Jennifer begins to press Joshua for another, and six months afterwards, Jennifer is pregnant again. Joshua has slimmed down some by then, losing some 15 pounds, though that still leaves him 17 pounds above his starting weight. Jannifer is now also on much more pay, enough to pay for a housemaid to help out during the first six months.
This time Jennifer has twins, which proves to be even more disruptive. This time around, between broken sleep patterns, extra supplements to support nursing twins, and a housekeeper doing most of the cleaning, Joshua quickly blows up, gaining over 60 pounds by the six-month mark. Bringing him to over 200 pounds, though Jennifer only seems to become more affectionate for it.
By the time Joshua calls it quits on extra kids, some 7 years after their oldest daughter’s birth, he weighs just shy of 270 pounds, but has no plans to slim down, given how affectionate Jennifer is towards him.
Unmothering
Lady Livia is a woman with a curse. Young, beautiful, and married to a lord, she is also, arrogant, prideful and a little cruel. One night, she receives a ‘gift’ from an unknown admired, a beautiful necklace with a large, ruby-looking stone, though it quickly turns clear within an hour of her putting it on.
Lady Livia is soon pregnant, a fact which pleases both her and her husband. Things progress normally until she begins going into labour, As soon as her waters break, There’s a flash, and Lady Livia blacks out. Awakening, she finds that there’s no child, but instead, the weight of her pregnancy has been even distributed over the rest of her body, leaving her decidedly plump. Summoning the local mage, she’s informed that she’s cursed, but that the curse can only be broken by the one who placed it.
Twice more, Lady Livia attempts to have children, and twice more she fails, each attempt leaving her carrying the entirety of the extra weight she’d gained during the pregnancy. By now rather fat, and filled with self-loathing, she eventually seeks to find the person, who gave her the ‘gift’ necklace, which started this.
Lady Livia’s travels eventually lead her to an old crone living in a nearby town. Begging for a solution, she’s told that she was responsible for the death of the crone’s son, and that only by agreeing to become her servant, will she ever be free to have children. Not thinking the implications through fully, Lady Livia agrees.
Lady Livia is soon pregnant again, this time with quintuplets (all four of her previously unborn children, plus another boy, as compensation for the crone’s son). As nine months come, Lady Livia is suddenly overcome with a pain unlike any she’s ever known, as though she’s been split wide open. Hours pass in agony, but Lady Livia prevails over the pain, eventually birthing all five children.
As soon as the last child is birthed, there’s a flash, and Lady Livia awakens to discover that she’s in the body of the crone, but with all of the weight she’d accrued, while the former crone is in her body, now once again slim. The once crone then hands her her last child, in a bundle, and tells her she’s going now, to return to her lord. Livia attempts to stop her, but now weighing more than twice what the crone had in this body, struggles to even get out of bed, and thus can do nothing to stop the former crone from leaving. Help does eventually come in the form of the local mage, who calls her Maria Livia, and promises to look after her, and their son.