I tend to look beyond the character, how they should've been, would've been if the writing was better and that Mako interests me greatly. I mean, he screwed up in the first season with Asami, but if he had been called on it, the situation would have been far less worse for me than it ended at being.

I mean, in my canon he didn't have time or interest or - well - energy for girls before he started to do pro-bending matches, and after that he really didn't know what to do when two girls showed him explicitly that they were interested in him.