Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-70.174.58.70-20140722191028/@comment-19765459-20140723185334

Jackson Van Kleeck wrote: Why would Peter want to kill Scott? Scott is on the hitlist.

If one of the assassins killed Scott, Peter wouldn't be able to take his alpha status. So I don't think Peter could be The Benefactor.

Just a thought.

Peter knows that Scott has an uncanny knack for surviving despite long odds against it. So he is a high-value target on the list, because his absence from the list would be very suspicious. But Peter doesn't really expect anyone else to kill Scott before he can. He does, however, need to get Scott's allies out of the way.

The idea dawned on me based on a Neil Gaiman comicbook mini-series The Books of Magic. The kid in it has the potential to be the most powerful magician in the modern age. One supposedly "good" magician, who is really pretty fanatical, thinks the kid needs to be killed because there are possible futures in which he will become a powerful force for evil. But the kid uses his powers to subconsciously summon help whenever he's in danger. So the magician takes him forward in time to the end of the universe, where in theory there would be nobody to save the kid.

That's a lot like Scott. He survives because he's surrounded by allies. It's not going to be easy for anyone to kill him until they're all out of the way. So Peter (or whoever else the Benefactor is) could be strategically trying to eliminate possible allies until Scott is alone and can be attacked directly without any backup.