For the most part, the commensalistic relationship between a human and their
nevilere is a loving and happy one. As stated above, they’re like a pet that
you keep with you throughout your entire life. There are almost exactly as
many nevileres as there are humans. Nature didn’t keep the populations so
even like this, but in modern days, with doctors and other medical
professionals keeping track of such things, it’s been pretty equal.
Occasionally something can go wrong, but that does not mean that there is no
way out of the problem. It’s sad, but death is a part of life. When a
nevilere embeds itself in its host, it will enjoy an extended lifespan. It
won’t die until the human does, and it won’t ever survive beyond that,
unless it’s removed from the hump in enough time. This is a dangerous and
risky procedure in any situation, and most humans don’t want to think that
their lifelong symbiotic organism friend was later given to someone else.
Plus, the nevilere probably wouldn’t survive for much longer anyway, and
even if it did, it would probably be depressed, because it would have become
just as attached to its original host as the host was to it. There are some
cases when the nevilere dies before the human does. This universe didn’t
come up with a lot of the more violent or dangerous sports; there is no such
thing as boxing, or even SCUBA diving. Doing harm to a nevilere—be it one’s
own, or another’s—is considered more heinous than murdering a human. So
people are generally a lot more careful around each other, but that doesn’t
mean that accidents don’t happen. If a nevilere dies before the human is
sufficiently old, it will often leave the survivor in great despair. It has
been known to lead to suicide.
Luckily, there is hope. Someone else’s nevilere can birth an offspring
without the host having anything to do with the process. It can then donate
it to the other host. The challenge is coaxing it to do this. Nevilere are
smart, but still just animals. Nevilere experts know how to provoke
conception with vibrations, tickling, and other techniques. It’s a little
weird, but it’s necessary, and no weirder than any other form of animal
husbandry. Not everyone would choose to go this route. If they were to lose
their nevilere, they would never dream of trying to bond with another. This
is all right, but there is a little bit of stigma attached to it. Being
asymbiotic, as people call it, can sometimes make other people feel
uncomfortable. They don’t know whether something unavoidable happened to it,
or if you intentionally did something to harm it, and of course, being
flawed human beings, they can assume the worst in you. Overall, however,
people of Nevilereverse are compassionate and patient with each other, and
they try not to judge. They value facts and understanding. It is unknown if
this has something to do with the nevileres themselves, or if being part of
such a profound symbiotic relationship has taught the human race to choose
kindness over cruelty. Either way, it’s had a generally positive impact on
their impact on the environment. While they do have a history of burning
fossil fuels, and otherwise harming the ecosystem, due to a delay of
innovation, they’ve done fairly well for themselves, and their planet. After
careful study and deliberation, the Ochivari ended up deciding to leave them
alone, and let them develop without any interference. While many cultures
end up walking the path towards transhumanistic upgrades, the
Nevilereversals were not able to figure out how to bring their nevilere with
them, so they remained forever organic.
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