Tyrian Callows - Blog Posts

ok fuck it neo and watts revenge party dynamic theyre pals that wanna beat the shit out of cinder fall

+ tyrian maybe bc he wanted to tag along with watts and he too has been fighting the urge to beat her up for years

I once had a dream that I was cleaning the set of a RWBY spin-off movie about Tyrian.

It was was advertised as a Christmas movie, incredibly unpopular, and looked something like this:

Screw it yall get my mercury thoughts too.

Let it be known I’m not an expert on the character this is just things I think about when I’m left alone for too long

Being a RWBY fan and ur fave characters being the villains suck so bad.

Wdym my one crumb of Tyrian backstory is a rep sheet you have to PAUSE TO READ. Wdym I get NO MERCH OF MY BBG. Wdym I only get so much screen time of him.

He has a chokehold on my brain lately and I am STARVING. Thank you ppl in this fandom that actually draw/write things for Tyrian ur feeding me ✨💜

Freak whom I love

Don’t steal my art I beg

compilation of my brain being consumed by worms

I always thought Tyrian was The Scorpion who could control his nature.

Do you think Tyrian might try and make Mercury see things his way?

Hello anons!

These asks can be answered together!

To the first anon, ooooh, interesting take! Do you mind to elaborate?

Anyway, as for me, I do not think he can actually control his nature. Tbh... I would not be surprised if in the end his nature were to lead him to his death.

As for now, I would rather say that he is the Scorpion who has embraced his nature:

Tyrian: Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh. I want to tell you both a little secret. Your question is all wrong. "What do you want from this?" Children, please, if you're not loving what you're doing, then you're in the wrong field.

Tyrian: Do what makes you happy children... please? I'm begging you...

He does what makes him happy aka killing and hurting others. He has accepted who he is, so he does not really try to change or to become someone else.

I think this reading also fits with him foiling both Qrow and Mercury aka two characters who have trouble accepting who they are.

On one hand Qrow sees himself only as a bad omen. He thinks it is his own nature and misses how much he means for his loved ones.

On the other hand Mercury claims he is embracing his own nature:

Mercury: All my life, my father trained me to be a killer, an assassin like him. And then moments after I killed him, you two showed up looking for someone with my exact skills. Just felt like it was meant to be.

But he is actually negating his personhood:

Tyrian: All you ever learned was pain and violence, and now you're too afraid to leave it. Such a tragedy.

Which leads us to the second anon’s question.

Honestly it is too soon to say.

As for now, there has actually been an interesting dynamic between Tyrian and Mercury. To be more specific, Tyrian has actually said out loud things Mercury has been negating/repressing.

Mercury wants to see himself as a big bad man, but Tyrian strips him of this coping mechanism and states Mercury is just a victim and a scared child.

Mercury does not want to deal with the Salem destroying the world, but Tyrian appears and makes this truth impossible to escape.

At the same time, Tyrian’s body language in both occasions has been controlling and threathening. He tells Mercury the truth, but also traps him in fear more and more.

In short, their interactions are good because Tyrian’s body language negates the effect his words could have.

All in all, it seems to me as a jungian dynamic...Tyrian is acting as Mercury’s shadow in multiple ways. He is giving voice to truths Mercury deep down knows, but does not accept. At the same time, he is taking control of Mercury (he literally drags him away in War).

Until Mercury is trapped in his fear he will be Tyrian’s prisoner as well.

So, I do not know if Tyrian will consciously try to influence/groom Mercury. He seems more than anything having fun tormenting him tbh. However, it is possible Mercury will try to act more like him as a coping mechanism. After all, it is the same thing he has done with Marcus. Mercury deep down despises his father, but he is still doing what his father would have wanted him to do. At the same time, the juxtaposition with Tyrian might lead Mercury to finally accept he can’t be like him or his father, no matter how much he tries.

Anyway, it is too soon to say, there are many possibilities.

Thank you for the ask!

If you're looking at this and thinking "wow, biased much ?" then yes Full bias, bias intended, they're MY fav and I get to make them fill out the Valid category 😤

I don't think anyone in the show is more qualified for Chaotic Bastard than Tyrian I like James Ironwood but for legal reasons called "whatever-happened-to-you-in-Vol8" he's going here

Ozpin is smart but also a dumbass. Qrow, Vol 7 Ep 12, need I say more ?

Tyrian Callows Redesign

Although I do like Tyrian’s outfit, I don’t love it. It’s a bit too overly compliated with the excess straps and belts, and the bandages seem a tad unnecessary. It’s also odd that Tyrian’s name is a shade of purple, and the only purple we ever on him is his eyes and semblance. I decided to add more purple to Tyrian’s costume, giving him a tailed sleeveless jacket, purple shadowing around his eyes, as well as more scars around his chest and face. In my version, Tyrian got a nasty scar on the right side of his face during a battle with the Atlas Military, and now looks like he has a permanent smirk on his face. I also got rid of the bandages on his arms, as Tyrian doesn’t seem like the kind of person who’d cover up his scars. Was this a good idea, or is this new design a bit too much?

Jerome Callows