Years after trying to take the crown, Jafar finds himself stuck in a cramped lamp, waiting to be let out by some lucky stranger that will have complete control over him. That’s the only thing that he could look forward to because there was no other way out. In the lamp, he lost count of the days. Was it weeks? Was it months? Was it even years? Jafar could do nothing but sit in this lamp and think about everything that happened in the past and the mistakes he has made. It’s hard to take accountability for anyone, let alone someone as dark and mischievous as Jafar. Eventually, all that alone time caught up to him and he was forced to think about what he could have done to end up here; then, he understood what he needed to do.
After endless days of being in a lonely room, Jafar felt a sensation he had never felt before; he was free. He awoke in a bright and fluorescent room and looked upon a girl in a laboratory coat. He had never seen clothing like this before, or a building of this size with electric lights and a view out the window of strange-looking houses and roads. It was safe to say; Jafar was extremely confused. For a long while, he just stared at the woman until she finally spoke: “What are you..?” She said.
“What am I?? This is an incredibly disrespectful question. I am Jafar.” It’s not like he got a guide to being a genie, he was just shoved in this lamp.
“Why are you in a lamp?? How did this happen”
“Oh right, I suppose I am your genie, I am yours to control and grant wishes to. You have 3 before I go back to the lamp”
“That is crazy, there is no such thing as magic. You’re saying I can wish for anything??”
“No, I am unable to make someone come back to life, make someone fall in love with you, and I cant make people die.”
“Haha okay genie, we’ll see about that”
“*Mocking voice* haha okayy. So where is this? Are we still in Agrabah?”
“Agrabah?? What is that? You are in the United States of America, the year is 2016.”
“2016?? Its been a thousand years?? How did I end up here?”
“We have a team that was excavating a cave in the middle east and found an old lamp, we carefully brought it over here to examine it.”
“I suppose I should thank you, do you have a first wish?”
“Lets see if what you say is actually truthful.. I wish for a 1000 dollars” she says skeptically.
“Dollars? I’m assuming thats like gold… Thats it? You will use one of your 3 magic wishes on 1000 dollars? Well, you said it so here you go..” Out of no where, a magical sensation surrounded the area. After a second, a stack of cash appeared in the womans hand. She was flabbergasted.
“Theres absolutely no way that is possible, how did you do that??”
“I am a magical genie that is *apparently* a thousand years old.. I can do anything.”
The woman says “Wow, there is so much pain and suffering in this world that a magical genie could help so much with.. I think I’ll keep you around for a while to see what I could do to use you for good. For now, I have to work so please if you could..”
“Thats it? You’re putting me back in that cramped l-” And before he could finish, he was sucked away back into the place where he spent so long. But now he was not trapped, he was being put to use.. For good. And somehow after years of much contemplation on his actions, this just felt better. And so he stayed and stayed until the women could figure out what good he could do for the world at its state.
