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?
Dealer shouldn’t plan to kill them, just threaten them, then accidentally kill them in a scuffle
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.
A more believable story might be blackmail/extortion. Why kill the source of income?
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.
Elon is addicted to ketamine.
Not to mention all the celebrities who have OD’d throughout the ages.
If they were some kind of nepobaby and just given everything in life without having to work for it, it would be fairly realistic that they may not have the ability to make money of their own quickly enough to satisfy their dealer.
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.
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
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.
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?
Mental addiction I can describe as an internal reminder that recalls you how good you felt when you consumed drugs. Yes, you can ignore but it acts like Google alerts showing on your phone frequently and annoying you with phrases like “eat it, come on” or “you will feel so good, take them and relax”.
Physical addiction is worse since your body got so adapted to drugs that it refuses to properly function. Metaphorically, not only you have constant Google alerts telling you to consume drugs, your phone literally starts lagging, glitching and etc. So drugs for you are as issential as an inhaler for asthmatic.
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
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.
The murderer was schizophrenic. He used drugs to cope with the schizophrenia. But it was schizophrenia that caused the murder.
The thing about rich people is, that Ehen you have the money to buy all the drugs you want, you can do quite a lot of them until it starts to affect you financially.
Just think about how much cocaine rich people like to snort.
I grew up a middle class kid in the rich suburbs. That’s so realistic and common it’s practically cliche.
The only realistic part is the rich parents not making the kid out when it really came down to it. You don’t hear about it more because Rich parents get their kids out of drug issues and DUIs like the rest of us run errands on a Tuesday night.
It wouldn’t work for reasons you’re not asking about.
1: you have to have a VERY close relationship with a drug to go into any sort of debt with them.
2: Maybe if he first got the money from a loan shark first, but even then they will rarely go after family, and usually it’s if they can’t find you first. And they have ways of finding you, especially if you belong to a prominent family. Your foot print on your area is much bigger than most people think it is.
And also there’s a ton of stories about rich people falling down the auction rabbit hole.
Look at RFK. Shipped off to private schools and spent plenty of that time getting kicked out and transferred to other private schools because he was a dick and on drugs.
