i think the best thing ever is having your own ocs make cameos in things entirely unrelated to them that you also happened to make. for all anyone (including me) knows lark is a canon apf character that's just in the background of every single scene in the history of everything and nobody knows because he isn't important

Whumptober Day 24: One Down Two to Go

self-induced injuries to escape | flashback | revenge

“Hair” (FFT, Ramza | also archived here.)

Ramza carried himself well amidst fire; he'd managed with rocket displays and with the scent of powder. Rad confessed once that in the year they'd traveled together, he'd never taken him for a man who'd seen real trouble.

It was such a strange sensation then, to have so much time and distance unravel itself at the sound of a blade against hair--that when Lavian trimmed off the end of a spell-singed braid, he should be transported back to that field and that night, ashes and snow against his neck while he tried to shear some part of himself away.