This is how you make a monster.
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-bas ketball/story/_/id/39740282/caitlin-clar k-iowa-2024-ncaa-women-basketball-tourna ment-ready-march
Don't get me wrong, it's a great deep dive and it's a fascinating read. But poisoned as I am from years of writing the Utopia-verse... this is how you make the monsters. Pull on their ego and drive; push on their insecurities and doubts. Make everyone rely on them, including themselves.
(Having to have the word "empathy" defined for them doesn't help.)
Don't get me wrong, it's a great deep dive and it's a fascinating read. But poisoned as I am from years of writing the Utopia-verse... this is how you make the monsters. Pull on their ego and drive; push on their insecurities and doubts. Make everyone rely on them, including themselves.
(Having to have the word "empathy" defined for them doesn't help.)