Mcginnis must be so lonely, man. The kid genius, Fairfax's favorite engineer, strong, rich, and beautiful - but so isolated. She's too headstrong to reach out, too misanthropic to want to. She doesn't feel like she can do any good, so why try? If the world is going to hell, might as well have beer money.
But it's like, you can tell she isn't happy. She couches her loneliness in sarcasm and disregard, but she genuinely doesn't know how to connect to people. When she asks Geist how she does it, the parading around at parties, you can tell she's partway making conversation, partway genuinely curious, and partway trying to connect with Geist on hating socializing.
When she's confronted about her work, she flips to deflection and tries to paint everyone else to be just as immortal as she is. She doesn't want to actually acknowledge her actions. She thinks everyone sucks, she's just "smart" and "aware" enough to know she sucks, but thinks everyone else is deluded.
she absorbs herself in her research and work and ignores everything else, trying not to be a one-hit child star genius that just coasts on her previous achievements. she wants people to take her seriously so bad.
what a character.
