This is usually used, when a character gets transformed into a robot, or just basically becomes a machine version of themselves. It also counts, and this is the case for most stories featured here, is when a person wears something that makes them appear / behave like a robot. Everything that features, like a robot suit or something, is part of this here as well.
Mechanization
Electroplated by Mikel
Electroplated by Mikel (Archive Link) After Kate recently started her job at an electroplating plant, she begins fantasizing about getting encased in the layers of metal and being made a statue. Being completely encased and kept safe all the time seems like the perfect solution for her, as she’d be able to forget all the problems and fears in her life. Thanks to another coworker, she begins realizing her dreams. ...
Karen – Androdom by MonsterP63
Karen – Androdom by MonsterP63 Original on mp63.ca Archived Version Quite a long story by MonsterP63 from a few years ago. Karen is trying to buy a robot to handle some of her chores, except she gets quite invested in the idea and decides to buy the most advanced model possible. Bit by bit, Karen uses the bought android for a few more things than just chores. The Three Laws of Robotics. Introduced by S-F author Isaac Asimov (I’m a big fan of his work), in the novel “Runaround” (1949), they suggest the limitations of behavior on robots. They are so clever that it is well planned in the modern robotic community to include them into any human interacting robots to come. They go as follow: ...
Celine by DieterSchaumer
Celine by DieterSchaumer (Archive Link) This is a multipart story I recently came across on Disguised Writing. It follows the main character Moira and how she does her coworker Nick a favour and watches his house while he’s away for a few days. It just turns out, that Nick has a special robot at home. What neither Moira nor Nick have realized yet, is that this robot can also function as a suit. Things get heated, when Moira decides to experiment with it. ...
The Eternal Princess by Kite-San
This is an old story from the author kite-san, that I managed to find in an archive of sticky-site.com. The story about how a princess has met her fate in an eternall locked metal body. The Eternal Princess “There, I think that has it, the damn thing should be recording now. I don’t mean to be offensive, but I’m not entirely convinced that you’re real, much less alive, I think I must have hit my head pretty hard when I fell into this chamber.” ...
Batteries Not Included by HH
This is an old story from the author HH, that I managed to find in an archive of sticky-site.com. The story of how Anne got herself locked in a steel suit. Batteries not included She saw the huge box in the center of the living room as soon as she arrived home from her the last day of her part-time job. It was the only reason she had been working in the first place and now it was here. It was a dream come true. Her master had insisted that if she wanted this bad enough he would enforce her confinement but she would pay for it completely. Now it was here. ...
Friends With an A.I by SparkyMira
Friends With an A.I by SparkyMira (Archive Link) This is a short story about a woman starting to work in a futuristic factory, where there are multiple androids and humanoid robots working. She fantasizes about being one of them and encounters the control A.I. which offers her to temporarily fulfil her wish. ...