#wuko headcanon

[sophisticated-cryptid]

coffee shop au but where mako goes to Starbucks for his and wu's orders (loads of sugar and milk vs black, respectively)

when the chick asks "two? who's the lucky girl?" he's like "haha it's just my friend" ((but he's blushing bc he def likes wu in a more-than-a-friend kinda way but he's still in the middle of his sexuality crisis))

and she goes "well, in that case 😘" and writes her number on the black coffee thinking it's his and he doesn't notice until he hands it to wu

so wu goes "mako? what's this?"

mako freaks out because he didn't even realize the lady was flirting with him and wu is low-key jealous so he asks him "are you going to call her?"

mako's stuttering through denying it and when wu asks "why not?" mako can't come up with a good enough excuse because wu keeps pestering him and finally he breaks down and goes "because I like you!"

and then they're silent for a moment

and mako starts to walk away but wu just grabs him by the wrist and pulls him into a kiss

the next time they go, she asks about the 2nd coffee again and why he didn't call and he's like (((blushing heavily and smiling like an idiot))) "it's for my boyfriend" and suddenly she gets it

[iamahugegeeknicetomeetyou]

don’t get me wrong i love bi mako but stay with me, gay mako

him and bolin growing up on the streets of the earth kingdom and mako not having time to worry about romance at all

them coming to republic city and getting caught up in work and competition so that he doesn’t really think about it

until asami along comes asks him out and she’s pretty and funny and mako really likes her

so they started dating and mako likes her but something just feels off but considering it’s his first real relationship he just kinda shrugs it off and with the equalists and everything going on it isn’t a main concern

but then korra comes along and admits she has feelings for mako and he’s confused and has no idea what to feel and for who and kind of just stands there not knowing what to do because he really likes them both and doesn’t want to lose either of them

but then he starts dating korra but something still feels off and it’s unexplicable because he really cares about them both but he just feels like there’s something missing from their relationship

but then they break up and mako just thinks that he’ll pull a lin and repress all his emotions and be single forever

little does he know that pulling a lin also means being a secret homosexual but moving on

during book three romances really the least of his concern and he tries to focus more on work and then obviously the red Lotus becomes a major problem so romantic relationships are thoroughly pushed to the side

and afterwards team avatar kind of goes their separate ways so he continues to avoid romance focusing on his work

but then he has to work as wu’s body guard and he start seeing his friends again and it feels kind of like old times and bolin asks if he’s seeing any girls but he’s just kind of not caring about that anymore and it’s been a really really long time since he’s even found a girl attractive so he’s kind of just chilling being single and all

until one night sometime before wu’s Coronation they’re at some fancy party and obviously he’s there as wu’s bodyguard and someone tells a joke and wu just laughs but for the first time mako realises he’s actually really pretty

The way his eyes light up whenever he speaks and how he has soft crinkles around his eyes whenever he laughs or smiles and how he has soft pink cheeks and kissable lips and-

and then he just kinda freezes like “oh fuck”

and when he goes back to his room that night he just kind of lies on his bed staring up at the ceiling realising that all throughout his life he was completely oblivious to the attraction he felt towards men like this one friend he had while he was living in the Earth kingdom who would help him steal food every so often and could make him laugh so hard even if his joke was unbelievably unfunny

or how he would sometimes think about how attractive his rivals would be in pro-bending matches and realising how the reason his relationships with women always felt weird was because he wasn’t actually attracted to them

it was basically a slap on the face telling him he’s gay

but because he hasn’t really grown up around any queer people he just decides to pull a real lin and repress all of his feelings and just pretend to be a heterosexual male

and this is pretty effective until korra and asami come back from their holiday in the spirit world and end upconfessing that they’re actually in a relationship and mako realises that him liking men is actually okay and that his friends will still accept him for it

so he takes all the confidence he has and one evening while team avatar are out just eating dinner and catching up and he decides that this is a safe environment and there is no one better he could tell so he just tells them “i’m gay”

but he panics and starts rambling about how he only recently realised that he was and he is sorry if it makes things uncomfortable because he also knows that he did used to date two of them and that he didn’t mean to lead them on or heart them in anyway and he just completely gets verbal diarrhoea and spews out a bunch of nonsense that they only half understand

and at the end of it he’s kind of just sitting there awkwardly waiting for their response and they’re all sitting there silently and he’s starting to majorly regret his decision before they all just leap on him and give him a huge hug and tell him that it’s completely okay and they still love him

and mako slowly comes out to people around him and seeing how they’re also supportive makes and finally actually feel confident in himself and maybe over the next few months he begins to develop a romantic relationship with wu and all of his friends support him no matter what

anyways yeah I just thought about this concept and thought it be kind of cool yanno gay mako having to come to terms with his attraction and realising that it’s actually not a bad thing as his friends support him

[justbuni]

Modern wuko during PE

Wu always asks Mako to make an alliance w him during dodgeball

It’s not very difficult to convince him.

[autistic-stedebonnet]

Wuko would 100% be the couple where like, Wu brings home a stray cat one day and Mako is like “what we can’t keep this” but two weeks later he’s spent half their savings on cat toys and food and whatnot. it’s a really tiny black kitten and is now Mako’s best friend.  

[iamahugegeeknicetomeetyou]

okay so like i had this idea the other night which basically follows canon where like wu is super OBVIOUSLY gay and he thinks it’s so obvious he never really comes out he just assumes everyone knows but team avatar is super oblivious. so imagine him asking korra and asami out is actually just him wanting to make new friends with the cool badass girls and they politely reject it but no one mentions anything about how persistent he is about asking them out which is kind of what happened in the show. he didn’t deny asking them out even though he was quite obviously homosexual and because he didn’t even think he had asked them out and was just trying to make friends. but like imagine they’re all eating dinner at one point and bolin is making fun of mako for this one time he got rejected years ago as they reminisce over their memories together and mako is like “well at least once i’m rejected i don’t try again and again” and glares at wu and everyone laughs and wu’s just like “???? wtf when have i ever even asked anyone out around you??” and the whole team is just like “ oh I DON’T KNOW MAYBE WHEN YOU CONTINUALLY ASKED ASAMI AND KORRA OUT NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES THEY SAID NO” and wu just fucking head slams on the table so hard and their all like “??? did we break him?” and wu is just like “guys i asked asami if she wanted to go to a fucking spa with me how the fuck did you guys think that was a heterosexual date?” and they’re all like “what???” and wu is just so dumbfounded and just yells “IM GAY YOU IDIOTS” and they’re all just like :0 because now it makes sense why he was so repetitive because he wasn’t trying to be pushy he just wanted to make friends and all of his super extravagant behaviour and low-key flirtly attitude with mako actually makes sense . yeah anyway idk I just like the idea fitting in with wu asking out korra and asami in canon was really just wlw mlm solidarity and team avatar being completely oblivious to this even though wu thinks it’s unbelievably obvious 

[cursedskull-666]

Headcanon: Wu loves Mako’s cheesy detective one-liners/come-backs. He can’t get enough of them. The rest of the police force are begging him to stop encouraging it but that’ll never happen. 

Let it never be forgotten that Mako is ridiculous in his own ways. 

[domxnkasshu]

Wu teaching Mako how to dance. Mako being an excellent bender and combatant but terrible dancer and stepping all over his toes. Mako stammering awkward apologies while Wu laughs at him.

i just died of cute

wu taking charge for once and knowing how to "properly" dance because of his aristocratic upbringing, but preferring his wild and unbridled style as shown in the coronation

beautiful

[domxnkasshu]

with cheesy love songs that he's singing along to badly, and finally Mako picks up the phone like "stop making fun of me", and Wu's like "I'm in love with you" and knocks on his front door like "I brought you a bunch of buddy cop films, wanna watch them and hold hands on the couch?" and they do.

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