Quaternion rotation not behaving as intended

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1

I am fairly new to Quaternions, and I seem to have run into an issue. The following script is attached to my player and the weapon GameObject is a child of the player. The motion is correct, however, the weapon object always points in 1 direction and does not follow the player’s direction. How can I fix this issue? From what I can tell, my issue is in my if/else of the motion. Should I not use Lerp and something else?

public class SwordMelee : MonoBehaviour {

    public float rotationAngle = 90;
    public float startingPosition = 0;
    public float smooth = 5;
    public GameObject weapon;

    private bool swing = false;

	// Use this for initialization
	void Start () {

    }
	
	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update () {
        swing = false;

        float animation = Input.GetAxis("Vertical") * rotationAngle;
        float normal = Input.GetAxis("Vertical") * startingPosition;
        Quaternion target = Quaternion.Euler(0, -animation, 0);
        Quaternion atRest = Quaternion.Euler(0, normal, 0);

        if (Input.GetButton("Fire1"))
        {
            swing = true; 
        }

        if (swing == true)
        {
            weapon.SetActive(true);
            weapon.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Lerp(weapon.transform.rotation, target, Time.deltaTime * smooth);
            
        }
        else
        {
            weapon.SetActive(false);
            weapon.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Lerp(weapon.transform.rotation, atRest, Time.deltaTime * smooth);
            
        }
	}
}
2

if u want to flip you’re character ,u can scale it by -1, this will flip the character and all the children

public void Flip(float move)
    {
        if (move > 0 && !facingRight || move < 0 && facingRight)
        {

            facingRight = !facingRight;
            Vector3 scale = transform.localScale;
            scale.x *= -1;
            transform.localScale = scale;
           
        }
    }