I’m writing a revenge story. This guy or girl comes from a rich family. Their dad is a doctor and their mom is a lawyer. The kid is in their 20s and is a drug addict. Their family cut them off because of it.
The dealer kills them because they couldn’t pay the money they owed. Then a loved one goes after the dealer for revenge.
Is this good? I didn’t want to overcomplicate it by giving it a huge conspiracy, but at the same time, realistically, couldn’t they have gotten the money some other way?
Elon Musk uses so much ketamine he ruined his bladder. He’s also a nazi pedophile, but that isn’t related
Take a look at the Reiner story. Being rich and famous doesn’t stop drugs from ruining families.
I mean…
Exhibit A: Succession…
Literally every episode has drugs…
Its not a show about bussiness… its just parties, drugs, famiky therapy, a board meeting coup-attempt in between, more parties, and DRUGS
Yes, they do. I haven’t heard about a human being that would consume drugs and will not gain an addiction to them over time.
That’s a very strong assertion. How would you, personally, describe addiction?
Never kill someone who owes you money - that’s terrible business. Kill for revenge or to send a message…
Drug addiction can happen among rich families, yes. Coke is common among them because it tends to be an expensive party drug.
As Noel_Skum mentioned, the dealer likely wouldn’t kill the guy who owed them. Some much more likely ways the dealer would act:
- Kidnap the debtor and ask for a ransom from the family
- Get info on the family in order to kidnap some relative
- Steal from the family home (likely convincing the debtor to do that, as they likely know where mom’s jewels are, etc)
- The two make a plot to kill the parents so the child can inherit the entire fortune and pay off the debt.
All of these have happened in real life
Bro narcotics are probably the most reliable thing that kills rich people
Elon Musk is still alive tho
While we all wish he would die early, unfortuntely we don’t actually know how heavy his usage is. We hype any percieved ailment to the moon like Trump’s usually non-lethal skin cancer. Hard to catch something late when these bastards have doctors on retainer.
Yeah his drugs of choice are of the “talked to Sauron and tweak out on the internet” schedule that you have to take a lot of to get any organ damage. But maybe we’ll get lucky and somebody will lace his shit one day.
There are plenty of rich addicts. Charlie Sheen and Whitney Houston spring to mind. Anna Nicole Smith was a literal billionaire.
“Tough love” is also a real thing. Families throw addicts out all the time. the idea is that if things get bad enough the addict will “hit bottom” and seek help.
The idea of a dealer killing a customer is the part that makes little sense. The dealer wouldn’t give an addict drugs without cash up front. Dealers know exactly how unreliable addicts are.
How about the addict tries to steal from the dealer and the dealer kills them in self defense?
You might want to look up the case of Carrol O’Connor. Famous actor, his son died after an overdose. O’Connor called the son’s dealer a murderer and the dealer tried to sue him for defamation of character.
More realistic might be the addict does something stupid out of desperation like try to rob his dealer and is killed in the process.
They tend to be pretty miserable and can afford them so my gut feeling is that they are actually more likely.
I would point out the way drug dealers kill their customers is unintentionally via overdose or bad drugs.
Also, if you’re a parent, and you lost your only child to a drug dealer due to an overdose, that’s really all you need to want to hunt down and kill the dealer.
A parent with nothing left to lose could be about as dangerous as it gets.
I’m with this guy. Drug dealers killing valuable clients is incredibly rare. ODs are common. It feels more natural. Even the cartels make people work off debt. Dead man can’t pay either.
Killing your junkies don’t make sense. Even with small dealers they know how much they can ‘lend out’ to their clients. After the client gets to the point they get cut off. But they will have 20$ next time. You will give them 10$ material and keep the other 10 for their loan.
How they got the money, you don’t ask. Customer service even in drug business is the key to long term success.
And sometimes people who went to jail come back months later, because they hit big and they can afford to pay back that 16$ that you never thought you will see again… and then spend more money that you didn’t think they had.All you managed to do with this post is very clearly and on several levels show everyone your unbelievable ignorance and idiocy. I’m sorry but holy hell… Everything you wrote is just so weirdly dumb and like you have been living in a closed room with no Internet access for your whole life until right before you made this post. HOW do you not know that rich people get addicted to drugs? It’s like the leading unnatural death cause for them, and very obviously so. And then the plot hole chaos of completely illogical actions and events in your story, you managed to cram so much of it into three small paragraphs. It’d still be so oddly lacking in basic comprehension even if it turns out that you’re 10 years old.
Rich people do get addicted to drugs.
The unrealistic part is the fanily being killed because they can’t pay.
Why can’t they pay? I thought they were rich? And a drug dealer isnt going to kill the only people who could conceivably pay him.
I’m assuming they can’t pay because the family cut them off. OP will need to come up with an explanation for the family refusing to help. Just being an addict would not be enough in a normal functional family, but it would depend on the protagonists past (mis)behaviour or maybe the family is very much against drugs for religious reasons.
OP is suggesting the rich family can’t pay. So unless its a typo it doesn’t really make a lot of sense.
Rich family WON’T pay is more realistic imo
OP is using they/them to refer to the junkie. I see what you mean, but I’m not sure it’s the family that will get killed or just the junkie.
Ahhh. Now I’m rereading it, that kind of makes sense.
I have one example of a rich person who was addicted to drugs.
He was a gifted child so his parents treated him like he knew how to raise himself. They also probably weren’t terribly interested in raising a child, so they basically abandoned him. He was cared for, but not by them.
Best example of this: I mentioned that I still remembered my mom teaching me how to tie my shoes. He remembered the maid teaching him.
Because no one would stop him, he started drinking in his early teens, and moved onto drugs soon after.
Regarding murdering because of money, I’d recommend making it a home invasion gone wrong. Addicted kid gets cut off from family, can’t pay drug dealer, can’t get drugs. Tells drug dealer he knows where the family keeps a lot of money. Like “won the lottery” money. Drug dealer tells someone else who convinces them to go after it. Hilarity ensues.
