there’s a bit in georgie’s mag 94 statement that I feel like helps explain some of her character that I haven’t seen anyone point out before. alex, her friend in her first year of university, is described as being very much in the melanie/jon vein of person: acerbic, angry, pointedly opinionated, and quick to take action. after she told georgie about what she saw in the medical science building, georgie says,
…I did what I felt was the only thing I could do in that situation. I told her I’d go with her if she wanted to take a second look. She didn’t, but we went anyway.
of course, this doesn’t end up helping at all. if anything, it made it worse, because it doesn’t look like alex was going to go back if georgie hadn’t offered. georgie felt all the help she could do in the situation was be a companion to alex, and that got alex killed and made georgie lose a year of her life to an emotionless void. I think the lesson she took away is that it’s worse for everyone involved if she tries to follow someone she cares about into a bad situation.