Depressing General Grievous Headcanon Depository

All 10 of General Grievous’s Wives (& 30 children)

(Also Master List:  here is where I’m trying to collect all my Kaleesh headcanons)

If I had a credit for every time people kept not letting Grievous die & instead tried to ply him into doing their bidding by patronizing the fuck out of him. I would have 3 credits at minimum, which isn't a lot but its weird that it happened 3 times.

The Banking Clan & the Sith reduced him to the need they had of him & presented it back to him as incentive. Using the rhetoric of his people against him as if they had any idea what it meant, straight to his face, "This is no honorable way to die. We can put you back in the battle"

How fucking insulting that must have been. Hey, big guy, don't you want to get back out there & crush your enemies? Don't you want to crush kill destroy? You love crush kill destroy :) And there was nothing he could do about it. He was shredded beef in a bacta tank that no one had ever bothered to hear out. And then he was giblets in a designer mech and well...he might as well crush kill destroy. He was so good at it. He did love crush kill destroy.

Giving into this purpose was a preexisting notion. Long before the separatists ruined his life, Urvru the god of death of his own culture had done the exact same thing to him. He was her precious Warlord standing against the enemy. It was out of love & for the fate of his people then, but it was violent martyrdom all the same.

[All my homies HATE San Hill]

Normally kaleesh use their jaws so much that it prevents their tusks from growing straight into the lower jaw. The use of the jaw encourages tusks to glance toward the outside & usually curve at the contact point. Worst tusk growth case scenarios are:

Neglected or sickly during childhood could see their tusks grow into or crowd/deform their lower jaw

The socket is warped whack at birth, causing the tusk to grow any number of weird angles. This is usually manageable even if they grow inside of their mouth cavity, its just a huge pain in the ass

The tusk forms successfully around the jaw but curves stupid like back into their face or the angle might put weight on their jaw with more tusk accumulated

Regular tusk maintenance usually keeps anything crazy inhibitive from happening. They can be filed or clipped down the the "cuticle" to kind of start over.

If the problem is anywhere from inside of the mouth to the socket there's not much they can do about it. Kaleesh are the type to just live with conditions. Like "oh well, guess things are just harder for me", a sentiment which is often seen as honorable. Even if they were growing up through the roof of their mouth, as was a known birth defect, they would just be like "guess they won't be with us too long".

Technically, you could pull the whole thing out but most kaleesh don't even consider that an option. Its not like the rest of their teeth that they lose & regrow rather quickly & indefinitely. A pulled tusk would grow back, but once out of their major childhood growth stage it would be very slow. Then your face would be uneven.