Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20161230201819/@comment-25936766-20170113160048

Phantomlink959 wrote: It only takes a split second for venom to transfer from a bite or sting into the blood stream. Except it was neither a bite nor a sting. Quite obviously.

@High: Out of the blue because he gave no signs of being poisoned. Even something as small as a cough or two during his talk with RNJR would've been more than sufficient. He only seemed wounded and somewhat hampered. Not poisoned. In other words, like you said, perfectly healthy (sans wound) and suddenly poison appears by the next morning, even when it gave no signs hours after their fight.

While some venoms don't act inmediately, instead taking a while for the effects to be noticeable, it doesn't take half a day. Qrow should've shown effects of the poison at least by the night when he talked with RNJR.

And since Tyrian only cut, grazed, Qrow instead of stabbing him or injecting the venom, any amount of venom would have been minimal at the very worst, if any even managed to enter his body. Which would not be enough to kill someone of Qrow's size and strength, or even leave him that badly.