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In Greek mythology and religion Hermaphroditus is the son of Hermes and Aphrodites who, after being sexually assaulted by the nymph Salmacis in the fountain that takes her name, merges with the Naiad and turns into a being half man and half woman.
Stricken by his misery, he makes a plea to his divine parents: whoever bathes in the spring of his disgraces shall turn into an effeminate being.
This is how nowadays in Agrabah they explain the existence of alpha females and omega men, attributing their gender ambivalence to a time in which, as historians suggest, the designation of alpha and omega still did not occur yet.
Surely a funny contradiction to have those terms deriving from the Greek language then.
This is the story you are about to hear: Men are usually alpha and women are almost always omega, Alphas predominate and omegas obey, alphas marry omegas, alphas are guardians and owners of omegas.
If most of the omegas are women and the great majority of alphas are men, wouldn’t the conclusion be that men are appointed to women’s well being, safety and – last but not least – ownership? That is as the law dictates, carved into stone and the iron of the warriors’ blades since immemorial times, formulated by a group of sages, all alphas, all men.
Sure, they adduce to their argument of predominance that omegas are too unpredictable, moody and the heats are nothing less nor nothing more than the proof that they need to be supervised and admonished. What better guardian could there be than the ones taking care of them during heats? The ones that provide omegas with their greatest task and gift, the joy of their life: a baby.
Surely there would be no better keepers than alphas.
Their strength and calmness matches perfectly with omegas’ moodiness and sensitivity.
Opposites do attract, so they can form a whole.
That is at least what Jasmine has been told her entire life; she was prepared, under the loving care of her nannies, alongside with her father’s straightforwardness and diligence to the old laws, to the moment in which a strong alpha would come to court her and marry her into submission.
A beautiful doll to a handsome alpha, ready to give birth to his heirs.
However, when the time came for her to present, it was not what her parents were expecting: Jasmine, the daughter of the Great Sultan of Agrabah and the princess of Shirabad, the light of the kingdom which irradiated beauty to all its neighbouring countries, the doll they spent so many years to train as a good wife, the example for all the omegas to look up to, was none other than an alpha.