Translations:Codex: Bothrioc/16/en

The bothrioc and the nyrea are the source of the native variant on the phrase “getting along like cats and dogs.” This is largely due to the difference in value between a nyrean male and a nyrean female as far as bothrioc are concerned. A nyrean male is the ultimate prize, as with one docking it is possible to fertilize eggs, deposit them, and take in a second dose of semen to fertilize the next batch when they are ready, a veritable sexual one-stop shop. Meanwhile, bothrioc have almost no interest in attempting to take nyrean women due to the lack of fertile material and their tendency to struggle and fight back. This doesn’t stop dominant bothrioc from mounting a surprise attack to drop some eggs for spite, even in the nyrean’s own ovipositor, which results in a dual-pregnancy when she inevitably uses her ovipositor on some hapless submissive. Nyrean women will of course take every opportunity to take advantage of the submissive bothrioc in the same way the dominant bothrioc are known to take advantage of them, and it is not unknown for a bothrioc’s ambush to be botched, allowing the nyrean to turn the tables on a dominant as well. That the two share the same habitat results in many such interactions happening on a regular basis, which is what caused the myr to coin the phrase “fighting and fucking like the both and nyr.”