I understand you've explained that it's bad for saratoans to put fake tusks or teeth over their natural teeth, but FateLock's missing tusk made me think - would saratoans ever put something that's obviously fake over their tusks or teeth, especially if they've lost them? Like gold pirate teeth
They'd still consider it kind of fraudulent and shameful if they were longer than they'd really have - but if it's the correct size for their social position it's not necessarily considered bad...
Just tacky.
The elders that the current crop of elders grew up with (people who'd be like, almost 400 years old if they were still around) sometimes did that sort of thing but the current group were sub-adults who thought it looked dumb and vain and considered it a kind of rubbing others noses in their social capital. They carried that judgement to the present and anyone with the personality to accentuate their tusks like that now has to deal with FateLock (and similar elders) openly laughing at them in public.
Sometimes young people have made jewelry intended to make a statement about their social system, using materials or designs that imply longer teeth without concealing their real ones but that doesn't so much avoid controversy as create an entirely different one. But in that case, the reactions are the point.
