[Susie JParticipant]

Every one has their strengths and talents. I’m sure Gatekeeper III understands our fondness for Four. But let’s not be rude. We are joyful that you are among us, Gatekeeper III and no matter the example set by your predecessors will not compare you to them or hold you up to any standards. You are yourself.

[Susie JParticipant]

We are here, Gatekeeper, attentive and curious.

[Susie JParticipant]

I am clutching my pearls, gentlemen.

[Susie JParticipant]

The curse of the Libra is that we’re always putting ourselves into everyone else’s shoes. We’ve all survived trauma and I’m not saying that we should leave her alone to sink or swim if she’s in trouble. I’m saying agonizing over the would have/should haves is not constructive. Some of us have made the decision to act should opportunity should present itself. Some feel it better to wait on more pieces of the puzzle to reveal themselves. I do know we all want Addison safe. On this we are all of an accord. I am no stranger to disappointing people I care about but I also am used to living with my decisions and owning my actions. I have learned to tread cautiously and listen to the signs. I’m no white knight. But I’m not a bystander either.

[Susie JParticipant]

As a long-time denizen of the dark but always striving to turn my face towards the light let me take a moment to play Devil’s Advocate. Perhaps her tears were for the past. We don’t know the nature of her relationship with her parents/family. But when there is a separation, forced or otherwise, we cry. Change is terrifying sometimes whether we choose it or we are prodded into it by a guy off camera pointing a gun at us. But I would posit this: she was not restrained, she was not physically fighting. Again, we are only examining glimpses of what is occurring. Each of us is our own filter and the great lesson being pounded into us is that we each make our own choices. That is all we concretely have for now.

[Susie JParticipant]

Go outside, @prufrock5150. And not just to have a cigarette. 🙃

[Susie JParticipant]

***HUGS***

[Susie JParticipant]

I would.

[Susie JParticipant]

I talked to a gentleman from the bar side when searching out the bathrooms. He was very kind and seemed a bit curious, but then again I was shaped like a cupcake. When I re-entered the bar to deliver my gift he solicitously assisted me in opening the accordion partition.

[Susie JParticipant]

Gentlemen! Let us calm our savage breasts. Many assumptions are being made as to the nature of Addison’s participation, as to our convictions as Brothers and Sisters to her and each other…. And what all of us are doing on the forums during your basic work day hours. Let’s not let hot heads rend asunder what we have here, a place to gather and discuss. A place to exchange ideas, freely. We all want what’s best for Addison and we are all unsettled by what we have witnessed. Can we not agree to disagree about what should have been done and focus on what we can constructively do going forward?

[Susie JParticipant]

As a victim of many kinds of abuse, I definitely feel where you are coming from, and as a person who has been abandoned in the hellush wastelands of anguish, indeed, thrust there by those that were supposed to nurture and cherish me, I have this to say: it made me who I am today. Broken, lovable and infinitely aware of the pain of others. I won’t deny you your torment at the audience like role so many of us are taking. I admire your outrage and support your drive. But what if this is what Gatekeeper 4 had to go through too? Would you deny her the experience that made her into the fiery goddess we all know and love? Would you have denied me all the tears and heartbreak that led me here to this place amongst all of you, hungry for the joy my Brothers and Sisters provide? We are, as yet, not time travelers nor are we omniscient. As such we react, learn and absorb from what we see. I adore you @111error, truly. But we are at an arm’s length from her and must add each morsel revealed to what we know.

[Susie JParticipant]

I believe the blood is meant to supercede the influence of the subjects of the photos. Basically, “Whatever they meant to you, I AM NOW.” Addison did not seem to have any visible physical wounds and the man was drawing blood from his cupped palm. He may have cut himself to impose his dominance over her relation to whoever was in the photos. At least that is my understanding of the awkwardly named sympathetic magic that might be demonstrated here.

[Susie JParticipant]

In the second video. The man seems to be drawing the OOA symbol in blood on the envelope.

[Susie JParticipant]

I do believe we just had the same thought simultaneously. As the video is titled “Rebirth” perhaps she must symbolically cut ties with her past (photos of her family). The wax seal and the blood seal of the OOA might also represent the separation from her past life and/or the idea that the OOA is her family/blood/kith & kin from now on.

[Susie JParticipant]

We need to find out the truth. 😢

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