All right, I know Scar basically tossed us a new piece of lore at the end of his Wild Life finale like a fisherman chumming the water hoping for sharks, but who would I be if I didn't take a bite?
Scar's Secret Life ending was different from all the other winners because he did not die at the end of the game. Death is the release, death is the way the game ends. He was clearly supposed to die to the zombie in the ravine after taking out Pearl. Neat, clean, one more winner to join the pantheon. But something happened. We don't know what it was because it was cut out of every perspective. Scar's POV takes a jump from "1.5 hearts from inevitable death to an uninjured zombie in armor and within melee range" to "zombie gone, Scar alive." Pearl's POV jumps at the exact same time, cutting from looking longingly at the Mounders' base with empty chat to a totally different angle with a chat thread fading on the screen.
Something intervened on Scar's behalf in Secret Life to make him miss his scheduled death. He could've died, he should've died, but he did not. And because he didn't die then, he couldn't die at all. And without dying, he couldn't leave his game. He is stuck there indefinitely, maybe forever, maybe until he wins another game and is able to die properly. He's got a lot of experience living on an empty world (thanks, The Crafting Dead!) and he's getting by, possibly with some visitors or hallucinations to keep him company. And despite his exile, he got paroled long enough to play Wild Life.
Scar had a ball in Wild Life! He got to play with his friends, he got to have an actual team and buddies, he even got to mend fences with Grian (mostly.) He also provided a huge amount of entertainment, killing and being killed with wild abandon. Every wild card he was right there in the mix, using it for chaos. But then Session Eight arrived, and it's like he realized it was all about to be over. All his friends would go away again, leaving him with nothing but sunflowers, shadows and regrets. The faster people died, the sooner it was all over.
And so he stopped playing. Scar _talked_ a big game through the session, explaining how he was going to use his deadly roller coaster to kill, but he managed to avoid doing so again and again. Several phases of testing, the wrong rail removed, a lever clicked at the wrong time, several faulty uses of the TNT minecart mechanics. With the exception of Skizz, who was already technically dead, nobody died on or to the roller coaster despite Scar spending his entire session on it and ignoring both the wild cards and all the opportunities he had to kill. He admitted aloud that he didn't want to kill Etho anymore, and he screwed up obviously enough that Grian said aloud that he didn't believe Scar thought his own trap could work. And that, it seems, was the bridge too far for the Watching audience, since it was only minutes later that EScarGo came along and sent him back to Secret Life.
But maybe it wasn't entirely in vain, because Scar provided a valuable lesson for future victors. Look at how Joel didn't waste any time on making sure he didn't get left behind in his game! He came up with a great pretext to kill himself and then when his trap didn't work, he just spammed ender pearls as fast as he could until he died. He wasn't about to make the same mistake and face the same fate as his predecessor. Too bad though, I hear the shadows are great friends.
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