[SOLVED]Why does respawning a character clear GUI, but local scripts inside playergui errors?

So I've made a menu that players will only see upon joining the game. The local script that handles all the buttons and frames and behaviors are inside the gui named "menu".

Upon joining the game, "menu" is cloned and put inside a player's playergui as intended. The menu works as intended up until I try to respawn the player using loadcharacter(). I do not use loadcharacter() in the local script.

I use loadcharacter() in a normal script called "Loader" in the serverscriptservice which handles the fire events such as teaming. The teaming part of the menu works fine. But when I click team, my player is teamed and reloaded, but

as they spawn the playergui is cleared, which is what I intended to do. The "menu" should be gone after the player is reloaded.

The problem is I get an error from the local script inside the "menu" for indexing a parent which is the parent of the script, the "menu". I don't understand why it's even indexing the parent when the entire menu should be gone.

I've tried safely indexing everything, even deleting the menu before the player is reloaded.

Here is the error 06:24:54.987 - ARVN is not a valid member of Frame

ARVN is a button, and the frame is the "menu" that holds everything including other buttons and the local script that is erroring.

I've tested this in game and it only happens in game, I think because loadcharacter() doesn't work as it should in studio anyways (it doesn't clear the gui when a character respawns)

So if you could help me understand why it is erroring?

Here's a snippit of the script

local Workspace         = game:GetService("Workspace")
local Players           = game:GetService("Players")
local Lighting          = game:GetService("Lighting")
local Replicated        = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local Storage           = game:GetService("ServerStorage")
local Debris            = game:GetService("Debris")
local RunService        = game:GetService("RunService")

local events            = game.ReplicatedStorage.Events
local client_Event      =  events.Menu

Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)
    player.CharacterAdded:connect(function(character)
        if not player:FindFirstChild("Teamed") then
            local menu = game.ServerStorage.Guis.Menu:Clone()
            menu.Parent = player.PlayerGui
        end
    end)
end)

game.ReplicatedStorage.Events.Menu.Menu_Event.OnServerEvent:connect(function(player, message, color)
    if message == "ARVN" then
        player.TeamColor =BrickColor.new(color)
        player.PlayerGui.Menu:Destroy()
        player:LoadCharacter()
    end
    if message == "VietCong" then
        player.TeamColor =BrickColor.new(color)
        player.PlayerGui.Menu:Destroy()
        player:LoadCharacter()
    end
    if message == "NVA" then
        player.TeamColor =BrickColor.new(color)
        player.PlayerGui.Menu:Destroy()
        player:LoadCharacter()
    end
    if message == "USM" then
        player.TeamColor =BrickColor.new(color)
        player.PlayerGui.Menu:Destroy()
        player:LoadCharacter()
    end

    if message == "CIV" then
        player.TeamColor =BrickColor.new(color)
        player.PlayerGui.Menu:Destroy()
        player:LoadCharacter()
    end



end)

here's a piece of the local script

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local camera = game.Workspace.CurrentCamera

local play_Button           = script.Parent.Menu.Play
local customize_Button      = script.Parent.Menu.Customize
local store_Button          = script.Parent.Menu.Store
local help_Button           = script.Parent.Menu.Help
local Team_Select = script.Parent:WaitForChild('Team_Select')

while not player do wait() end


play_Button.MouseButton1Click:connect(function()
    script.Parent.Menu.Visible = false
    script.Parent.Team_Select.Visible = true
end)



Team_Select.ARVN.MouseButton1Click:connect(function()
    game.ReplicatedStorage.Events.Menu.Menu_Event:FireServer("ARVN", "New Yeller")


end)

Team_Select.NLF.MouseButton1Click:connect(function()
    game.ReplicatedStorage.Events.Menu.Menu_Event:FireServer("VietCong", "Steel blue")

end)


Team_Select.PAVN.MouseButton1Click:connect(function()
    game.ReplicatedStorage.Events.Menu.Menu_Event:FireServer("NVA", "Bright red")

end)


Team_Select.USM.MouseButton1Click:connect(function()
    game.ReplicatedStorage.Events.Menu.Menu_Event:FireServer("USM", "Earth green")

end)


Team_Select.CIV.MouseButton1Click:connect(function()
    game.ReplicatedStorage.Events.Menu.Menu_Event:FireServer("CIV", "Bright blue")

end)