User blog comment:Zathronas/Analysis by an author-Hiatus Edition: Roman Torchwick/@comment-10390252-20141209143644/@comment-24218038-20141209144941

I agree with your first paragraph

I checked and I didn't see Ruby blocking the shot. As for the shot being less lethal from a distance, it did explode exactly like the other earlier against Blake.

Tukson was a white fang "traitor" but someone on the show would have said it already if he was Roman's agent.