2025-08-07 15:05:27 ¶ ● ⬈

delanokeay:

> in a story where fear and love are so closely entwined, I don’t think Georgie should have gotten away so untouched by her ‘can’t feel fear’ gimmick. her relationship with Melanie should have been much more contentious, not for lack of compassion but simply because Georgie is missing something fundamental to the experience of being alive; her lack of fear should have been a loss felt more consistently.

> my preferred interpretation is that she hasn’t lost her fear, necessarily, but that she is living past the usable part of her life. basically, a more literal sense of foreshortened future. she’s already faced death, she knows it intimately, and now she remains detached from life.

> she too is trapped in her own domain. she is witness to others’ experiences and suffering, but unaffected in the same way. she’s able to help, but only to a limited degree. and unlike pre-apocalypse, where she played arbitor of who was deserving of help as a way to wash her hands of the responsibility to get involved (as opposed to choosing her battles, which is what she said that she was doing), Georgie now has absolutely no escape from the consequences of her actions (or inactions.) all while still lacking the power to meaningfully change anything.