Unexpected "Weight Gain Content" in Literature

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There's a kids story called Knights Castle where the kids introduce modernity into the Middle Ages and the shapely Lady Rowena from Ivanhoe turns into a fat couch potatoe who eats junk food all day.

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Other partly vague memories from various stuff:

*In the Sharpe's Rifles series by Bernard Cornwell, there's a Portugese woman who when introduced is a rail thin young lady and becomes the main character, then a low ranking officer, girl for the book. Every other time she's seen over the rest of the series (which cover half a decade), her current paramour has increased in rank and she's increased in weight, going from soft to plump to downright fat by the last time she's seen late in the series.

*One that's extremely blatant is the Malazan book of the fallen series which has several overweight sorceresses presented as quite attractive, but especially one named Rucket who starts off as very lean and then has to disguise herself in an occupied city. She magically puts on half a ton with no ill effects and the text rather gleefully describes her waterfall of fat rolls, with one male main character going from mildly attracted to her to raging hard on at all times around her. She begins eating constantly and muses on getting fat for real.

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Another from Malazan, a girl named Felisin is kidnapped by a cult of excess and becomes their leader. When seen several books later, a few years of doing nothing but eating, drinking, fucking and smoking pot all day have made her so fat she can barely set up

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A couple mostly minor: in one background short story for A Song of ice and Fire, a Targaryen prince notes that his relative the princess was the slimmest, fairest maiden in the land in her teens. Three pregnancies later and by twenty she's stout, very thick waisted and huge bosomed.

 

I've written a witcher gain fic before, and plan on updating soon, but going over the books it almost teases one with ultra hot super bitch Yennefer. In the book she's introduced in, Geralt notices she's incredibly slender. A couple books later, Yenns newly adopted ward Ciri notes jealously that Yen is spectacularly, impossibly voluptuous even in comparison to other sorceresses. In the next book, Yen refuses some snacks at a party on the excuse she's watching her figure. In the next book she rips open the seam on her dress bending over quickly. As far as I know, nothing ever comes of it and no one, not even the other catty sorceresses who'd gleefully notice, mentions her gaining weight. But the plot line is frustratingly almost there, a few mentions of snug gowns or plumpness and it'd be golden.

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Another minor one:

 

Pathfinder is the Pepsi to DnDs Coke for those who don't know. The publisher sells guide books for regions in the game world that give details and plot hooks, ranging from local monsters and rulers, on different regions. one book for a gothic horror region called ustalav, talks about a beautiful countess/opera singer who used her riches and sex bomb body to overcome deficiencies in singing ability or writing skill to great success until she took a long break to have a kid. Out of shape and out of practice, she had a nervous breakdown on opening night with of her grand return when younger, slimmer actresses got more applause and has been essentially bedridden out of humiliation for years since.

love to run a campaign focusing on that...

[Batman76]

2 hours ago, 119 said:

Major thanks for the Malazan recommendation.
The books are good reading by themselves.

Yep, given this description of Rucket, the sorceress who magically fattens up as a disguise..
 

Makes it obvious that the author is one of us, a fellow pervert. Given that he's a writer, which means disciplined enough to write doorstoppers at a volume, it's not impossible that he writes fetish fiction under some pseudonym.

Non-FA's don't get it though. I looked up the forums for the book and people just find the quoted description and Tehol's liking for fat Rucket funny.

 

Yeah, I loved that scene. Sadly I haven't seen anything else like it recently.

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Update! 

 

The book knight life is about king Arthur appearing in modern day to run for mayor of NYC. 

But the first, excellent chapter shows how vain evil sorceress Morgan let Faye has over the centuries let herself go, becoming an unhealthly obese, suicidally depressed, late middle age slob who's patricians face has gotten a new chin every decade thanks to doing nothing but eating fast food, drinking cheap beer and watching shit tv. Unfortunately she Slim's back down immediately after chapter one...but chapter one is the free sample..

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Iirc,a later scene has her unable to get up

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Recentish fantasy book series called "warheit" has this in its second book "Revenge".

One view point character is a relatively minor  noble girl who through political shenanigans becomes a Queen. Due to severe threats against her life, she's kept in her royal apartments at all times, rubber stamping decisions. Her day consists of waking, being bathed and dressed, walking the short distance to her dining room and being served a stupefying huge breakfast with more food than anyone could eat. Then essentially having nothing to do but sit around and have music played for her, while servants bring her snacks without asking, until an equally large lunch. Repeat until dinner.

She tells her steward that if this keeps up she's going to very rapidly become obese. In response she's told that this wouldn't be the worst idea, as a slender, pretty queen would be seen as a bride to be captured by her scheming nobles, while a fat, round, motherly Queen would remind the nobles of their own mothers and make them obey.

So far, she hasn't gained weight but the potential...