Details have been changed to protect the guilty.

Tim Schafer once said that he could get away with having Guybrush and Elaine fall in love in a few minutes because Monkey Island is all about comedy. A more serious game series, like Gears of War or even Uncharted, probably wouldn't be able to pull it off.

Now, despite my complaints about plausibility and tone in smut, I'm not strictly wedded to the idea. Sometimes stuff just happens because porn, especially if you like to use humour. And I do.

But even in this biz, it's kinda silly for your narration to proudly point out at the start of the story that our main character just happens to have two parts of her name mean "fish lover" (and then we see her turned into a very horny fish hybrid), or (in another story) that one of the the narrator's hot friends is named "Woman orgasms strongly" in Serbian.

I am not making this up.

By contrast, the ol' "best friend who conveniently reveals they like the protagonist right after the plot starts" bit seems gritty and realistic. Downright Nolanesque.