superheroine · size shifter · intelligent · athletic · weight gain · late bloomer · beautiful · glasses · action · romance
The lens finds Dr. Elise Vance—codename: Chrysalis—a figure of calm authority amid the sirens and chaos of a national emergency. Once a reclusive prodigy, she has forged herself into a luminary: a stunning, formidable protector whose self-engineered battle-suit allows her to manipulate her own scale. At her side stands Leo, the love of her life, a man two years her junior whose gentle presence she guards with a possessive, nurturing intensity. They have saved the world together. Yet beneath the gloss of victory and adoration, a private truth festers. Every time she expands to confront a colossal threat and shrinks back to human dimensions, her body does not fully reset. It holds onto weight, gram by gram, pound by pound. She is ten pounds heavier than the woman she was a year ago, and…