It's Brass Buckles' Random Observation Time again.
Okay, so replaying ME1 and taking more notice in ME2, I realized, a lot of turians I would think are more aged have "heavier" mandibles. Garrus has lighter mandibles. I think the fringe may be longer or shorter due to age as well, so that turians with heavier, longer mandibles and longer fringes tend to be older.
I also notice that in ME1, at least, enemy turians' fangs show more than Garrus's (or any other more friendly turian's) due to the mandible shape, and most of them also have heavier mandibles. It's kind of like the turian equivalent of wearing a black hat in an old Western, except a lot of the "bad" turians are also bare-faced.
If it's not an age thing, it might be a turian variant of having a "strong chin." I would guess it's more a masculine trait to have a heavier/thicker set of mandibles, but since there are NPC turians with the lighter mandibles (similar to Garrus, but most NPCs have longer or differently shaped mandibles even if they are thinner) and the ones with heavier ones tend to be authority figures whom you'd assume would be older (like Pallin, Chellick, and the turian Councilor), I tend to lean toward age.
Anyway, guess what I'm saying boils down to: turians, even the NPCs, can be as distinctive as the human NPCs in game if you look closely. Yes, there are some generic ones, just like there are generic human NPCs, but there's also quite a bit of variety. Garrus is quite distinctive, due to his short, thin mandibles (shows that he is young most likely), long fringe (indicating he's not quite
that young, maybe?), his coloration, and his face paint. There isn't another character to be found who will look quite like Garrus. But he is not by any means the only distinctive turian NPC.
Also noted while replaying: At least in ME1, it doesn't seem that rare for turian males to have a thing for non-turian females. One of Saren's thugs was coming on to Tali in a creepy way, and there are more turians than Septimus who are into asari. One of them comes on to Femshep, but maybe only because he is drunk. The general evidence actually makes Garrus's "Are we crazy?" spiel during his romance in ME2 look kind of weird, unless it stems from general anti-human sentiment within the turians as a whole. Again, evidence would indicate he's mostly worried what Shepard really wants--but I can't be too sure. Then again, all the species are into asari and quarians might be slightly less weird to turians than humans.
And I guess that's all of my randomness for the night.
Edited to add: I have my suspicions that the thicker, longer mandibles would probably be considered more attractive by turian females than thinner, shorter mandibles like Garrus's, seeing as they
do tend to appear more on authority figures, and we know how big turians are on authority and respect. No, not all women find power attractive, but a lot do. Given turian culture I'd find it very difficult to believe that female turians did not find power appealing.
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the game isn't about your romance, but about saving the galaxy. It may be mentioned in some kind of epilogue or something, but I wouldn't be expecting it in gameplay if I were you.
