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El Paso, Elsewhere looks like it’s about a guy who fumbled his vampire GF, and then it’s about a vampire who fumbled her human. In some sense she does loves him, but she misses being the vampire lord and having all those other vampires to order around and intimidate, so he’s the one person she has left to order around and intimidate. He seems to me like he would have been fine with being dommed, and she could have just accepted and trusted in the authority he gave her. But she needs to prove to herself that he’ll fear and obey her, over and over again in increasingly cruel and pointless ways. Even more damningly, she can’t accept responsibility for her actions. She justifies, shifts the blame, or simply refuses to respond, and the closest she gets to admitting she did something wrong is saying she knows he thinks she hurt him.

In the good ending, the closest she can come to acknowledging her own shittiness is to claim he’s just as shitty and more hypocritical about it, and her final act is to try to drag him down with her.