User blog:ChishioKunrin/Possibly why Tyrian didn't see Qrow's punch coming

When Qrow punched Tyrian, a lot of people were crying ridiculousness because it's impossible for him not to have seen it coming, and then he just stood by and let Qrow get his weapon back. But guess what I just found out.

Scorpions have bad eyesight.



Scorpions rely on sound and vibrations to understand what's happening around them, and when you're in a fight, using metal weapons, running around on a hard surface, there are a lot of sounds and vibrations going on.

While fighting Qrow, Tyrian kept getting low to the ground where a lot of the footstep vibrations were.

When he disarmed Qrow, suddenly Qrow didn't have that big noisy metal sword. Then, he got distracted by the most obvious noise in the battlefield: Ruby's gunfire. He wasn't even looking in her direction, but he could block her bullets.



Then, Qrow punched and kicked Tyrian to his heart's content. A fist displaces less air than a big sword, so that's even more reason for him not to have sensed it coming. Qrow then knocked him away and walked toward his sword. It's possible that, if Qrow had run instead of walking, Tyrian would've attacked him. Your feet tend to make more noise when you run, but they can be rather quiet when you walk (unless you're wearing high heels). It's possible that Tyrian wasn't detecting enough sound or vibration to feel comfortable with attacking Qrow, so he just watched this blob move across the field. But then, Qrow grabbed his sword and started to pull it from the wall. The metal scraped against the wall, and that gave Tyrian the perfect indication to attack. Not only did he have an accurate picture of where Qrow was and what Qrow was doing, he also knew that Qrow may have let his guard down to pull his sword from the wall.

And if Tyrian has bad eyesight, that can kind of explain him leaning in so close to Jaune's face. He was trying to get a better look at him, so he casually climbed up Jaune's shield and leaned in.