The Bey and The Blade
This is Turbo (also known as Cobalt Dragoon if ur a loser) and it is (completely unbiased) the Best Beyblade X Bey. It is cool, awesome, and most notably, a left spin Beyblade. Left spin Beys are rare in Beyblade X, how rare?, of the countless Beys that make up the X line, only two are left spin. One of the main traits of left spin Beys is their ability to "spin steal" from right spinning opponents, equalizing its spin speed with them.
The phrase "spin steal" always bothered me because it's not inherent to these left spinning Beys. If perchance, both Beys were left spinning, this effect wouldn't occur. But because left spinners are the minority, the onus is placed on them for this phenomenon. No, this equalization cannot be a product of the Beys opposite rotation - it is a crime for which left spin Beys must atone for.
Why is this? Perhaps in a different world, the left spinners are the default, and the rightoids are the minority, ultimately, the distinction between what we view in Beyciety (Beyblade Society) as the default and what we see as deviant is completely, and utterly, arbitrary.
And yet, we are content to exist within the confines of this unjust system. We label left spin Beys as thieves of inertia. And for what? Deep down, we all know the truth, that the only crime these poor Beys are guilty of is the crime of existing. Taking up space. Being the minority in a world designed for right spinned beys.
We see playing with toys like beyblades as forms of escapism, where the woes of everyday living can, for a brief moment, be drowned out by the ecstasy of the burst. Unfortunately for us, that is simply not true, and the more we perpetuate this collective delusion, the more it is self-evident certain that the only thing getting played here, is ourselves.
