In the Fang clan aesthetics are everything, the matriarch won’t allow anyone that is scared or ugly to remain in the clan.
Even the children are pressured to form and finish their metals quickly and those that develop slowly are berated and abused. The natural awkward look of galeacoma children as their skull plates fuse is covered and hidden until they are “presentable”

Orea grew slowly and so did her metals and her mother was not kind.
Orea is about 12-13 years old in this.