haha, I admit I am sort of world-building on the fly, so some of this I am making up as I go along!
I imagine that a breeder gets a few chances to produce a proper heir; internal fertilization isn't a really good method for trolls, so clutches produced that way tend to be small and there are fairly high odds of having a non-zero mortality rate. One clutch of mostly (or all) slugs is a bad sign; more than one in a row probably means the breeder is finished.
Mostly the scars were just there because, well, he needs *some* excuse for the name, right? But a few hundred sweeps ago it's entirely possible that modern safeguards for one's breeding stock hadn't come into fashion yet. I tend to think he'd have gotten them from a dangerous rogue blueblood who ran into him by mistake when she was looking to steal something else valuable from his master at the time. (Possibly he's always wished he could have had a rematch. ♠)
All the breeders' teeth get filed, though. It's only common sense, if you're going to use their mouths for pleasure when they're not in season! Nasty creatures have mouths full of needles otherwise.
(It's not unheard of to declaw them, too, but that's far less common. There's a stigma attached to it that suggests the breeder in question has a bad temperament, and that makes their resale value drop.)
Re: "a jewel in the scarlet crown," Karkat/Eridan, Karkat/Dualscar, slavery, forced breeding, 3/?
I imagine that a breeder gets a few chances to produce a proper heir; internal fertilization isn't a really good method for trolls, so clutches produced that way tend to be small and there are fairly high odds of having a non-zero mortality rate. One clutch of mostly (or all) slugs is a bad sign; more than one in a row probably means the breeder is finished.
Mostly the scars were just there because, well, he needs *some* excuse for the name, right? But a few hundred sweeps ago it's entirely possible that modern safeguards for one's breeding stock hadn't come into fashion yet. I tend to think he'd have gotten them from a dangerous rogue blueblood who ran into him by mistake when she was looking to steal something else valuable from his master at the time. (Possibly he's always wished he could have had a rematch. ♠)
All the breeders' teeth get filed, though. It's only common sense, if you're going to use their mouths for pleasure when they're not in season! Nasty creatures have mouths full of needles otherwise.
(It's not unheard of to declaw them, too, but that's far less common. There's a stigma attached to it that suggests the breeder in question has a bad temperament, and that makes their resale value drop.)