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Anyways my take on Scar betraying (and then un-betraying) Grian in Thirdlife is that he very much intended to fully betray Grian but couldn't go through with it.

We can be super generous and say Scar intended for him and Grian to make it to the end the whole time and thought killing Grian and then betraying Bdubs later would be a better method than both of them killing Bdubs together.

We can also be super cynical and say the whole time Scar was just out for himself, that even agreeing to let Grian kill him was a tactical move to get Grian back on his side and that he was aiming the whole time for nothing but his own advantage.

But I think reality is somewhere closer to the middle.

Scar spent all of Thirdlife lying to and betraying everyone he could. Famously so. He was pretty much the least trusted man on the server, and for good reason. It wouldn't shock me if his plan was to betray Grian in the finale so he could win.

But Grian was his buddy. The only person who stayed at his side the entire time, even when he no longer had any obligation to. And I think that, after Scar killed Grian once, he realized that he didn't want to win like this.

I also think that realization changed how he behaved going forward. People say Scar and Grian make each other worse, but honestly, I think their relationship influenced Scar to be softer in some ways than he was before.

It's worth noting that Scar has become more loyal since Thirdlife. He's still full of tricks and he's very much not above telling lies. But I can't remember many times where Scar's betrayed teammates (minor allies maybe) since then, and even in Secret Life, when he was the villain of the server, he chose to fight Pearl- his closest ally of the finale- fairly rather than just cheaply killing her when they were the two left.