Talk:Semblance/@comment-25405817-20170108011216/@comment-12654584-20170129025339

Which is the cheap writing coming in.

Real world scorpions' tails and other poisoning-injecting biological structures need to pierce and dig into flesh in order to inject poison. They use the pressure of the body of the victim against the barb as it pushes in to release poison. A cut like the one Qrow suffered would literally not dispense any poison. This "it's fictional'' excuse is nonsense.

The only way this makes any sense, other than being brute-forced by Qrow's semblance, is if Tyrian's tail is tipped with a disease of some kind, and that's what's causing Qrow's illness. The tiniest amount would be sufficient for an infection, which would grow from the initial infiltration of the body.

It could also be Tyrian's semblance, whatever it is.