A character getting encased or wearing something basically forever. Now be that by some kind of magic, or some high-tech encasement process, or just getting locked into something, that can never be taken off, without basically killing the wearer.
Mel by RubberMatt
Amazing bane series by RubberMatt. Mel by RubberMatt LonelyZentai's Discord Server Melanie had been a high-energy physics researcher before leaving to start a family. Twenty years later with her daughters grown up & moved out she had returned to full-time work, the skills motherhood had equipped her with rapidly bumping her up to admin level. Her ability to browbeat even the most fractious scientist into doing what they were told without raising her voice was regarded as a superpower by her colleagues. Which meant she was in the lab when the Incident occurred and the entire lab vanished. When it snapped back into existence 72 hours later, encrusted in thick black slime & missing the entire basement complex, she was one of the nine cocooned women found in the upper floors. The only one still completely sane when they emerged from the cocoons 48 hours after that. ...