I find it interesting to see a character who is good at terrible things: lying or manipulating people, shooting ability to kill or maim at will, infiltrating areas undetected, compromising computer systems.
Their treatment in stories is usually being convinced that their abilities can be put to good use (thus teaching us that all skills are tools which are neither intrinsically good or bad) to stop the bad guys, or being kidnapped and forced to use those skills for another's gain (which generally ends with that person using their skills to outsmart the kidnapper and either escape or get the hero to arrive).
I am disappointed in how few was this concept is used. Maybe that's because if you're good at terrible things, you can just choose to not do them and continue living the rest of your life (which would be even more boring). But there has got to be something between them.
Temptation is an interesting angle. What if they feel awful for using those skills, but also really enjoy it? There is potential there, but you need to go deeper. Why do they like using their abilities? How did they get to be so good at what they do? What is at the heart of the internal conflict?
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