How can you just say that?! How can you just say "OK, bye" like it's the most casual thing you've ever done?! I can understand your reasons behind cutting ties with me and everyone else, but I don't want the last words I might ever directly hear from you to be "uhhh...toodles!" I'm not going to pretend I know what you're going through, because I can't. Even though I'm the leader and founder of the Defenders, I'm horribly uninformed. I've never once gotten on the server or done really anything with you guys outside of Scratch. Outside of this site, you only ever hear about what I do from Galen. I'm on my own tiny little island, too scared to swim out to sea. There are times where I think about this and wonder if I'm really cut out to be the leader. If this is the only place I stay, how will I know if one of my friends is hurting? How can I protect them? What if they just...vanish into thin air? It's your decision to leave. I'm not going to stop you if you really think this is for the best. But please, I'm begging you, never think that the place you're in is better off without you. Never think that you are the only thing making the ones you care about unhappy. That's going to hurt me way more than whatever you might do. Call me an idiot, a buffoon, a failure, a no-good lazy potato who shouldn't be leading this ginormous collaboration of animators. I don't think of myself as those things, but I won't argue with anyone who does think that. You can call me whatever...just don't call yourself that. You matter more to me than you think. Yeah, it's going to hurt me if you leave, but again, it's entirely up to you if you do. What I won't allow is you believing you're the worst thing about the Defenders. I'll admit it, maybe I'm a naive fool to think that I can magically solve every problem that comes my way. I don't know what's going to happen from here on out. But I do know this: you were one of the first friends I made on this site, and in a way, my inspiration. You've evolved into a magnificent Scratcher. Both of us have. But you like to walk on the wild side and go all out, while I tend to play it safe because I want something to be done as soon as possible so I can move on to other things and please my friends. It's not that I don't want you to give up on all of that. What I don't want you to give up on is yourself. I'm here for you if you want to talk, or if you need to let all of that hatred out on something. I'm sorry I can't do anything further to ease your pain, or if your pain wasn't eased at all, or if I just made that pain worse. I guess I'll find out once I click that orange "Share" button.
