About that fanfic title meme... can I send more than one? Your responses are so interesting. House of Diamonds and Sunshine
“House of Diamonds” – Seems like it should be a heist-fic of some kind. The characters are pulling off a big, risky scam that seems impossible. I’d probably use alternating third person and include a lot of banter. On top of the major goal (probably thievery) I’d add in some higher stakes, a bigger villain who the team will turn around to screw. Could be a fic from Harry Potter side characters, The younger crowd from Venture Bros (Triana, Sirena, Dean, Hank, Jarrod, etc.), a few Glee characters, or…
A second possibility is using it as a pun and writing a period piece in Steven Universe about a failed uprising on Homeworld before Pink and Earth were even thought of. :P
OR a sci-fi western AU being settled/run by prostitutes, as it was in the actual American west.
“Sunshine” – I’d write it as an AU in which I write a favorite character like Kurt or the Baudelaire kids as a child vampire. Except under these vamp rules, vampires are living creatures who are an alternate species, and thus are abled, in a limited way, to live and pass among humans.