Alright, so I’m going to elaborate on my Yuriy (Tala) and Wolborg headcanon/idea
Yes. So. Here goes. I’m going to expand a little on the canon tale that Aoki put up and tell you a little about what I think of Wolborg.
As we all know, Yuriy, before everything turned upside down for him, belonged to a beautiful family with loving parents - an ever smiling mother and a proud military man for a father. Now let me digress a little from canon here and delve into headcanon territory.
Yuriy had a mother by the name of Olga Ivanova. Olga, well before Yuriy was born, was a renowned ballet dancer. She had flaming red hair and a sharp tongue, which her son inherited from her and she was beautiful and graceful as a dancer. However, once Yuriy was born, Olga took it upon herself to raise Yuriy single-handedly while her husband was away on the frontlines, fighting for his country. All throughout his childhood Yuriy used to sit and watch while his mother twirled and danced on her toes, teaching her students the art of dancing ballet. It was a happy memory for him. He admired how his mother raised her arms and gently made her way across the dance-floor like a swan.
Now, coming back to canon, we know that Yuriy’s mother abandoned him eventually when she decided to escape from her abusive alcoholic husband. Poor Yuriy was too young to understand the repercussions of the same. He never knew where his mother went. All that was left of her with him were his memories - her smiling face when she danced and twirled around on the floor, often winking at him while he sat on the sidelines and cheered on his mother.
When Yuriy was out on the streets, he and Boris (dub ,name Bryan) used to often play with wild wolves that would wander about the streets after escaping from a nearby forest, which is why Yuriy had always had a special connection with wolves. During that time he tried long and hard to look for his mother, but Olga had vanished. It was almost as if she never existed anywhere except in the recesses of his mind.
Eventually, when Yuriy is accepted into the abbey, after severe conditioning and some degree of abuse, Yuriy completely loses his childhood memories. However, even as they do everything to snatch away his memories to make him the perfect soldier, he holds on to one memory in particular - the memory of his mother dancing ballet.
So when they start to create his bitbeast (as we know Wolborg is a created bitbeast), they patch up a link with his mind so that the bitbeast that suits him the most is concocted by the machine. With Yuriy having an affinity for wolves, naturally his bitbeast takes that form. However, while the process is ongoing, the machine that taps into his subconscious catches his memory of his mother dancing and channels it into the template of the bitbeast.
If you ever notice, when Wolborg is first released out of the beyblade, she first appears and then turns around ever so gracefully, before transforming into a wolf. MUCH LIKE A BALLET DANCER. MUCH LIKE OLGA IVANOVA. Notice.
And lo and behold, we have Wolborg.
How’s that for a headcanon, fandom, for our redheaded baby?
