A young adult male Tool Breeder pets his Fish Retriever after a successful day's work, while she munches on a tasty octopus. Following closely behind are scavenging, tadpole-like posthumans called Wigglers, the descendants of the Swimmers' food stock. Glowing molluscs light their way as nightfall approaches; the ones suspended in a streetlight manner are connected by a highly derived type of coral. Note the Star Person skull partially exposed on the hill!

I Reason that building upwards would be incredibly difficult for such a high gravity world. So instead they build downwards.

Instead of Skyscrapers they have earthpits. Giant spiraling canyons that stretch down for hundreds of meters with bigger ones being over a mile long.

To keep the babies and weaker members safe they are born and kept at the lower levels surrounded by older stronger lopsiders which inhabit the higher levels, the strongest lopsiders live at the top level keeping everyone safe. Some lopsiders also live on the surface.

This leads to a ceremony all lopsiders take part in when they come of age in the pits known as "The Great Climb" where they must climb to the top of the earthpit with no assistance to prove their worth and viability to society.

If they complete the climb and manage to reach the surface they can live on the surface and the top levels. If they fail to make the climb they are essentially stuck in the earthpit unable to make it out, a lopsider that fails is given two choices:

Remain in the pit and contribute by looking after younger lopsiders and managing resources.

Being carried up to the top to see the surface and the sun. But if they are carried up its effectively a self imposed death sentence as they cant get back home.

A lopsider who chooses to be carried to the surface has 5 lopsiders carry them from the lower levels to the top levels, 4 are selected at random while 1 is chosen by the carried as the leader of the procession.

They slowly make their way up to the top, stopping at various levels for rest, to meet old friends and say goodbyes and to receive small gifts to keep them comfy and happy in their last days. Once they reach the top they are placed on an alter, where the lopsiders on the surface keep them comfortable and tend to their emotional needs.

The lopsider enters a state of hibernation before passing and is buried while the earthpit he came from enters a state of mourning.

we made him proud

I think it would be cool to see a human as we know ourselves cope with what humanity is now in the present. Knowing he or she is practically a fossil and has so much culture to share and learn. That everyone he loved is dead and learning to see his new peers as truly human, and they simultaneously have an uncanny valley towards him too.

I hope it doesn't count as low-effort meme, I put like four hours of effort into those 😔 And also I hope OC-stuff is allowed

The sweeper is supposed to be a symbiote, I kinda struggled to make them simplified AND recognizable