Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20161230201819/@comment-25936766-20170113170707

Phantomlink959 wrote:

1-Imagine this; you are fighting someone who is using a knife with poison on the blade. They never manage to stab you, but they do slice your hand with the edge of the blade. That poison is now in your blood stream; the same principle applies to Tyrian's stinger...

2-The poison being so slow acting is the only actual issue with the situation, but we do not know the nature of the toxin used 1-Not the same, however. If at least 1 side of the blade, or half the blade, is coated in poison, then it's believable if someone is poisoned to a sufficient level to achieve results after a cut.

But when only the very pointy tip has poisoned, and you are cut with that very tip, then it is not believable. For starters, the amount of poison present is minimal, so unless it's the kind of venom that can kill a grown man in even diminute amounts (no Scorpion has a venom that good), it makes no sense for it to be that effective.

And second of all, it's very, very, very difficult for the cut to be deep enough to truly get the poison into the bloodstream. At most, an even smaller amount.

That's what Tyrian did. It's like cutting with the tip of a needle. Like Qrow said, it only grazed him, so it's not a deep cut. And any amount of venom in the very pointy tip of the stinger is minimal, not even half enough to kill a grown, strong man like Qrow.

There's a reason scorpions need to inject the venom instead of just cutting with the stinger, you know. A cut from a scorpion's stinger, instead of a sting, would burn, hurt, but not kill you.

2-He's a scorpion, so you just have to look up scorpion venoms. None are that slow-acting. Hell, we saw his venom burn and all right after drops fell on the floor, making the slow-actingness of the venom even more ass-pulled.

And like you say, we don't know the exact nature of the toxin. You propose the idea that it can seemingly self-reproduce. What scorpion venom, or what venom period, can do that? I thought the purple thing was his tainted blood. It's like throwing a bit of paint into a water bucket, the rest of the water will have at least a bit of color change.