#mating instincts

Don't let werewolf romance books fool you, blutbaden don't actually have any particular mating instincts. However, as Nick and Monroe discover after Juliette leaves and their friendship starts to get a little closer, it turns out grimms do.

Aunt Marie told Nick to trust his instincts, but she might not have done if she knew his instincts would tell him to not just trust but stick close to, protect and care for a blutbad. Grimms instinctively recognize potential mates they're strongly compatible with, often before their conscious minds catch up.

Now that Wu's got his lycanthrope transformations mostly under control, he's gonna have to learn to cope with his new mating instincts. Monroe and Rosalee can't tell him much, since lycanthropes are usually not allowed to live into adulthood and Wu isn't a blutbad, so there's not even a normal wesen instinct to use as a baseline. Unlike with the transformations, he's probably gonna eventually have to accept help from one of his friends to figure this one out.

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