Holy Bacchus
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- Dec 13, 2018
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Well, as I've said before, I see someone else using it and suffering the consequences being a far more effective plot tool in shaking Quinn out of this desperation she seems to have. We still don't quite know why she's so desperate, but let's say that the reason she needs this money so much isn't for her simply so she can have it, but for someone else. She may see this drug selling and prostitution stuff as the only way she can raise the money she needs as expediently as possible, hence why she's becoming willing to take more and more risks and go beyond her own comfort zone. But if someone, like Riona for example, OD'd on that coke, then it might finally force Quinn to admit it's gone too far because her closest friend and confidant almost died from her actions.Why do you say she wouldn't use it herself? The dialog makes it clear (to me, at least) that Quinn would never sell coke... yet now she does because she's just that desperate. I see using the coke as a natural extension of that: it's a personal line she'd never let herself cross... until she hits rock bottom and figures there's nothing left to lose.
It's pretty clear Quinn's life is heading for rock bottom at an accelerating pace, so I see Quinn as by far the most likely target for that particular Chekov's gun. I certainly don't want it to happen, and I think there's a good chance the MC can intervene (at least on some paths), but that's where I see things going at this point. I'm curious as to why you think she'll cross one line but not the other.
Simply seeing Quinn hit rock bottom and do the coke would, for me, be something of a weak plot device because it only harms herself and it doesn't necessarily pull her out of the downward spiral, it only worsens it. This of course presumes that DPC wants to pull her out of this spiral, but when you look at a lot of the relationships the MC has in this game, and even those of AL, the MC is the quinitessential hero/white knight helping people to get out of their bad situations and lead better lives, so that's why I think it will also be possible with Quinn. But that, in my mind, is better served if something happens to someone else to show Quinn the consequences of her wreckless actions.