I fell down the rabbit hole of looking up what Nautolan head-tails are actually called. (NO It’s NOT ‘lekkuS’ dear tcw s1 crew) My first thought was tendrils, and that was what wookieepedia used (turns out that was for plants), before I remember the word I was looking for was head tresses. Now I only just learn it meant ‘a lock of long hair’ from a quick dictionary search. Wouldn’t ‘head’ tresses be redundant then? (sidenote: as opposed to hair, tress is a countable noun)
I got the feeling I might have absorbed the word online so I look up an official source. Both Alien Archives (2019) and the old TCW Character Encyclopedia tells me, Nautolans have “tentacles” on their heads. My eyes dart left and right as I immediately start to suspect the mobility of such organ but I digress.
Now I resort back to my favourite Nautolan, Miss Kilindi Matako. In Restraint, she has “a headdress of striped tentacles” and in The Wrath of Darth Maul, she has, “head tresses”.
