BubbleTale!Ink: (Begins to tell you what was going on, and trying to hold back tears)
[It turns out BubbleTale!Ink was being seriously hurt by Shattered (in more ways than one, too):
1. Shattered kept spreading lies about him, which made him unwelcome in any AU (other than his own) thanks to everyone BELIEVING those lies.
2. When he tried to stand up to Shattered, Shattered started hurting him physically, making him too scared to speak his mind about anything.
3. And to top it off, all BubbleTale!Ink wanted was a friend that can understand what he was going through. And the fact that Shattered was trying to make him feel rejected is hurting him more than the above.]