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Fam, this was great. Seriously, I go to readings by the fiction and poetry students at the local college, and this would be politely applauded. One point of order tho:
afaik most goth scenes are pretty welcoming to "original generation" people. I think this is also true about punk scenes. I don't know much about emo but I read that it's having a bit of a revival, i.e. clubs are having nostalgia "emo nights". So I don't think she would age out as you describe. What's more likely is that as her peers move away or drop out of the scene, she'd become bitter and/or gatekeepy and/or passive-aggressive so people would just start to be emotionally distant around her. Hmm... come to think of it, yeah, her social circle would shrink. But it wouldn't be directly related to age.
Yeah, I mean my thought was that, going along with the theme of her being resistant to change and not particularly socially adept, she wouldn't enjoy the new music being made and wouldn't go out of her way to make new friends. Additionally, she would be unable to accept her new role as one of the older people in the scene, which would make her feel uncomfortable when most others around her were younger. And the small size of the city and lack of desireable reasons to live there would make it difficult for her to find many others in the scene her same age, as there wouldn't be many to begin with and most would either move to another city or simply drop out of the scene to focus on other things.
I didn't mean to imply that the scene would exclude her for her age, but that she would exclude herself because of it.
I hope you realize I'm gonna be texting and emailing all my friends this evening saying "are you all right... are you REALLY all right? you're deep and profound to ME, you know!?!" and they'll be like "have you been watching depressing anime again?"
It's not that the scene is unwelcoming, it's more that at some point it turned into a volunteer babysitting gig and nobody told me