No one ever writes empaths as villains when they should be perfect for it.
They feel burdened by everyone else, forcing some degree of isolation and can drive one insane too. Our own feelings are hard to deal with, let alone others.
An incentive to just shut down any emotion ?
No. Let them always feel, all the pain they inflict, all the bad and the good because that's the price to their villainy.
Let the empath make someone feel all the lain they inflicted in revenge. Make them take away all joy. Make them scramble emotions so badly in a victim they only cry of joy and laugh when they are sad.























