COMES IN HERE WITH. THOUGHTS. so i'm fairly confident the other kid left, presumably they were just included to demonstrate that like.... other people in her life, like classmates' parents, COULD have seen what was happening and intervened but did not, since a lot of the early lyrics reference bystanders
AS FOR THE FOUR MASCOTS i went back to check some things in her first video and my SUSPICION. is that rather than each of those being a real person, each represents a particular demand her guardian had of her and its associated punishment/abuse when she "failed"
the text attached there, the electrocution imagery associated with it in her first video, and the taser when her guardian finds out about the cat makes me suspect that that was a SPECIFIC punishment for interfering in "destiny" aka. helping an injured animal
i might need to go double check bc i didn't see the other kid going in?? :Ic the way i parsed it was def that like. the other kid and parent told her guardian something and left, but i'll take another look later in case i'm misremembering
the text attached there, the electrocution imagery associated with it in her first video, and the taser when her guardian finds out about the cat makes me suspect that that was a SPECIFIC punishment for interfering in "destiny" aka. helping an injured animal