beta
Honestly my favorite internet past time is trying to give logic to bad fiction scenarios like their real hahaha.
In defense of the MC not knowing/realizing the rut symptoms:
People of the jury, remember back to when you were younger and in school. It was time for your badly underfunded public schools yearly "sex-ed" talk and your teachers leading everyone through it. Now there are some options schools can take, 1 is separating the the boys and girls and showing them health topics related to their genders. 2 showing a very outdated PSA about stds and hormones. And some others but for me personally, we got option 1, meaning as a young girl I never really knew/cared about the inner workings or the opposite sex.
I like to think that's what's going on here, MC relieved a public education where betas were taught to not care about how Alphas and Omegas hormones worked and vice-versa. Why would a uneducated man know all the workings of a women's menstrual cycle? Why would a beta know the signs of a rut and how to use a suppressor? Same logic as far as I'm concerned lol. Beta sees his alpha exfwb look loopy and out of it but can still respond = cold/flu, I'm sure if anything betas are taught that alphas go feral and maybe get aggressive during ruts so he could tell the difference.
TLDR: MC has a public school education and didn’t learn about alphas and omega hormones lmao
Thank you, my client is innocent :>
Also fuck the ML he's a rapist and can kiss my ass