Quote Originally Posted by Popertop View Post
You could have her retain her ruthlessly efficient method of dealing with problems. Instead of having complete disregard for human life, she could have disregard for people's expectations and feelings for her, which enables her to accomplish much, unrestricted by the trappings of deep personal connection.
I'm struggling to come up with an example for you, the closest I can think of right now is Mandalore, but even that isn't totally what I have in mind...
This sounds rather like Scorpius, from Farscape. Ruthlessly efficient, few emotional connections, completely unbothered by other peoples' perceptions of him, and yet he must value the lives of "his side" enough to go to the lengths that he does. Individual innocent lives, however, are quickly evaluated on the basis of "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one."