Mako/Raleigh
Mako Mori/Raleigh Becket
Pacific Rim's co-pilots share the Drift — total memory transparency — and the film famously ends on a forehead touch instead of a kiss. Fandom treasures a bond canon deliberately left unlabeled: deeper than partners, freer than romance.
What is Mako/Raleigh?
Mako/Raleigh is the fan-given name for the romantic pairing of Mako Mori and Raleigh Becket from Pacific Rim. With over 900 works on Archive of Our Own, it's one of the most popular ships in the fandom.
Why fans love Mako/Raleigh
Two people who have literally been inside each other's worst memories have nothing left to confess, only to choose.
Most Popular Mako/Raleigh Fanfics
The highest-rated Mako/Raleigh stories on AO3, ranked by kudos.
Of coffee, Kaijus and the one I love
Completeby Frankenkeks
When she meets the star pilots of the Gipsy Danger for the first time, Livia can't help but fall for one of them. Yancy is kind, loving and unfortunately gone too soon, a loss that makes both her and Raleigh question their respective jobs.When he leaves, Marshal Pentecost keeps her on board. Years l
Ghost Drifting.
Completeby s0ngokeuz
No summary provided.
Drift Compatible
Completeby s0ngokeuz
lana lang / oliver queen — pacific rim au, sailing takes me away / drift compatibility / queenred
may the bridges I have burned light my way back home
Completeby aletterinthenameofsanity
The brain scans come back, and Tendo gives her an apologetic look. “We’ve compared the brain scans from after your initial drifts with Raleigh, with Hermann, and after Hermann and Newt’s drift.” He points to two very brightly lit up dots- one in her amygdala, the other in her thalamus. “I can’t say
just to get me through the night 'til we're twins again
Completeby aletterinthenameofsanity
Newt is staring at him, slack-jawed, absolutely stunned, and in any other moment, Hermann might be absolutely pleased at such a reaction. This might be the first time in ten years that he has struck Newton Geiszler utterly speechless, and that makes it one for the record books. Mark the calendar- He
The Abyss: Where Nightmares become Reality
by Flabergastered
Eight years after the breach was closed, a large seismic event brings on the apocalypse in the world, where Kaiju reign and Jeagers are the rebels. While Grace was on a simple exchange deal, she met a red-haired boy, his sister, and a young boy. What will this encounter bring to her life after nine
a loose bolt of a complete machine
Completeby aletterinthenameofsanity
Hold on, Mako thinks. Hold on, Hermann thinks, and he thinks about being a little girl in the middle of a broken city, her parents’ ghosts in her chest, a red shoe in her hands, bright and taunting as the dash of blood against concrete, and the jaeger descending from above, a king emerging from the
let the ultraviolet cover me up (i'll find a new place to be from)
Completeby aletterinthenameofsanity
Some days, it’s easier. Some days Newt wakes up and he’s not a hollow with the echoes of eldritch creatures banging about in his head. Some days, it's a fucking chore to get out of bed. When Newt thinks about the fact that he can’t be trusted in a lab anymore. That he can’t hold a fucking scalpel w
Pacific Rim: The Guardian of Earth
by Rain3r999
“When I was a kid, when everyone would feel small and lonely, I’d look up, wondering if there was life out there in the stars. Turns out I was looking the wrong direction. When alien life entered our world, it was from deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. A fissure between two tectonic plates. A portal b
i'll be your satellite to guide you home (you are not alone)
Completeby aletterinthenameofsanity
When the world finally stops ending, most of the Shatterdome staff head home. (There are no pilots left save the three who don't have a home to go home to. There are no scientists left save the two that made their home in each other. One LOCCENT officer remains, but he made his home here in Hong Kon
[Podfic] weave (the threaded hearts remix)
Completeby 2naonh3_cl2
It isn't until Raleigh gets to the mess that he realizes that the sweater doesn't smell like him. He looks down: it's definitely his. The grease stain that won't come out on the sleeve proves it. But the grease stain also means it's the one Mako...borrowed from him, a couple of weeks ago. He never a
Present Company
Completeby Bitmeddler
Hermann shuffled into the room, feeling his cheeks heat from the blaze of the hearth and certainly having nothing to do with being in the presence of this rather winsome spirit, clad only in a robe as he was. He kept his gaze fixedly upon the ground. “I believe an introduction is in order,” said the
as we stand, together
Completeby Lets_call_me_Lily
No summary provided.
Breathing You In (Because I'll Crumble If I Don't)
Completeby shatteronlight
Set immediately at the end of Pacific Rim, Raleigh is high-key obsessed with Mako. I love submissive men and this was my first attempt at writing one lol.
Joined By The Westering Wind
Completeby Glinda
Love is not always a helpful word. For them it means 'where you go, I will go, for the rest of our lives'. It might mean something else to other people.
Tie Our Souls Together
by SIMBELMYNE_LETHARGY
The Breach was closed. The Kaiju were gone. Two people had stood on the brink of all possible things, alone, but inseparably together. The bond was stronger and closer than either of them realised, a thread tying Mako Mori and Raleigh Beckett together. But now the world and it's thousands of questio
Blood Red Shoe
Completeby gardenofchrome
*oneshot*Mako’s nightmare.
negative space
Completeby carnalapples
She wakes up in a cold bed, Raleigh burning like a furnace next to her. Lying there, she tries to remember: what his stomach looked like the day she met him, how his eyes would have looked. If only she had turned her head to meet them—were they detached or anxious or worse, soft, burning into her? T
Three Jaeger Pilots and A Baby
by BornFirst087
Raleigh shifted next to her, his hands on his hips as he bit his lip. He sucked his teeth, “Um…yeah. How did you get in this mess again?”The baby gave a little gurgle in her carrier. “I might have just been agreeing to get the conversation over with…” Mako let the silence carry.The blonde pilot humm
chemistry is rare (our secret life)
Completeby mrrrston
As he swishes water in his mouth and spits it into the trash, Raleigh tries desperately not to slip into Mako’s head. She’s angry. At Raleigh; at herself. She’s fuming and trying hard not to take it out on the nurse. She can feel Raleigh, too. Can she hear Yancy? Can she feel him? Is he pressing aga
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What does Mako/Raleigh mean?
Mako/Raleigh is the ship name (portmanteau or nickname) for the pairing of Mako Mori and Raleigh Becket. It's used by fans to tag and search for fanfiction featuring this relationship.
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