Bwah-hah! With all the awful wrongness in those paragraphs, the partner/lover element shouldn't be needed as a red light at all. Anyway, it's this usage of the epithet when we all know the character's name that looks silly (and it's probably much more usual in slash where it's a lazy solution to the whole pronoun problem).

And I agree about "cum", of course. I just have problems with the way the baby is always thrown out with the bathwater when right/wrong in fic is discussed. There's so much irrational, subjective and prescriptive about it.