Twilek headtails are basically fat storage, right? Orn Free Taa’s are engorged and he seems to have grown another two. They’re on a planet with regular food scarcity, so it would make sense too. Imagine how much they could do with that.
Twi’leks who can tell when others are regularly hungry based on the size and consistency of their lekku. Slaves and other vulnerable Twi’leks being easily identifiable, by the way they move. Their lekku movements grow sluggish, the tone changes.
For people with the observational skills and knowledge it’s easy, but Padme and Orn Free Taa once had to collaborate on a space Power Point on a famine that involved carefully pointing out every lekku marker of malnourishment in holos of settler children so the Senate would understand it.
Extra lekku being a status symbol because it means that you have literally so much wealth your body has to stretch to hold it all. Cham Syndulla brings back the lean and mean look with his nationalist fervour, and then it’s a bit stylish to have solid well built up lekku, all healthy fat, regularly fed but not overdone.
Slim lekku coming into ‘fashion’ on other worlds, even though it’s not always as healthy, and everything that would bring.
Babies with their tiny lekku being fed extra well to make sure they’ll grow up with nice long ones. Grandmothers swear they can tell who grew up in a rich family and who didn’t even when they’re adults, just based off their lekku.
Young Hera who only eats every few days and then in binges, because even if it isn’t entirely healthy for her it works a lot better for her than for a human. Then Kanan comes on board and he has to eat every single day, basically. (he protests, but she knows how humans work) and she finds it’s better for her as well, that her lekku fill in and grow stronger.
Aayla Secura giving up rations in a siege situation, because she can handle it a lot better than her men, and her lekku get limp and droopy. All the clones fuss once they’re in safety to make sure she eats enough to get her health back.
Well, lekku have muscles, too. Not just fat storage appendages.
I love your headcanons, but I must add:
Lekku have a decent amount of neural tissue, too. From what I understand, the upper portions are extensions of cranial tissue. I’d bet on them being similar to cranial nerves, and probably with their own ganglia and whatnot. I’d imagine a decent amount of coordinating and autonomic centers as well (like cerebellar tissue).
I have always headcanoned that lekku species will joke about their headtails having a mind of their own. And, while they can easily override it, I feel like lekku function semi-independently. They’ll sometimes express emotions that the bearer wants to hide, in subtle ways.
But yes, even so… lekku are mainly fat and muscle. (Neural tissue has a lot of fat as well, lalalalalala). So the headcanon holds.
Good stuff. A+
twi’lek literally means ‘two leks’ so i cant see this working out, leave the third lekku to togruta.not to mention their main purpose is to communicate..i imagine they can fully control it or the communication would be soo embarrassing lol.
edit:fixed it oops
I mean, canonically, very heavy Twi’leks can develop extra lekku, though they probably don’t have the same muscular and neural foundations to allow movement. (Look at full pictures of Orn Free Taa, he has two in front and two in back, four total.)
As for motion control, can you fully regulate your own body language? We telegraph lots of things we don’t mean to, in how we look at things, how long we focus, small facial muscle movements. Even verbal language is a complicated thing, full of small clues and hints. Perfect muscle control is even trickier. Our bodies react on instinct before our brains do, at times.
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