Especially if it comes out of nowhere. Two female characters are talking about stuff, randomly one of them ask if they ever kissed/had sex with a girl before, one of them says no, smut ensues.
Being drunk excuses it a bit (although being drunk is also just as likely to lead people to just pass off or wander around being dicks).
One Night Stands and the like can be written off well (after all, not like they don't ever happen in real life too), but the trick is giving them a plot purpose at the end.
edited 5th Jun '13 3:31:12 PM by NapoleonDeCheese
To go back to characters with canon relationships, for a moment, when the canon SO is turned into a wife-beating, mustache-twirling, happiness-sucking douchenozzle so either the author's preferred love interest can "save" their beloved, or so the canonically "taken" character can deliver a "Reason You Suck" Speech before switching to the preferred love interest.
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Ugh. That...no. Horrible. Ron the Death Eater is one of my pet peeves, and it's even worse when it's done for shipping.
The only possible way I can see that working is in a story where the canonical love interest really is that bad. A Bastard Boyfriend shoujo, for instance.
And yet I've seen cases of Ron the Death Eater + Romanticized Abuse fic, where the male character is derailed into a bullying rapist, and it was treated as the main official couple.
