References

This is a list of real world and pop culture references in veyluu lore.

## Film and Television

* The date of Fletcher's arrival on Earth, September 23, 2014, is a reference to the intro of the musical "Little Shop of Horrors," being "the twenty-third day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own."
* Campanella Station, of the infamous Campanella Station Disaster, refers to the character of the same name from the Japanese animated film "Night on the Galactic Railroad."
* The H.A.M. darter, a silent and lethal weapon used by Fletcher during its time as a space outlaw, was named as a backronym for one of Inspector Clouseau's failed attempts to say "hamburger" in the airport security scene from the 2006 Pink Panther reboot.

## Folklore and Myth

* Veyluu reproducing oviparously is a reference to the Easter Bunny.
* Jolbur Thonnem's crown of thorns is a reference to the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

## Interactive Media/Games

* Ogon, referenced several times in posters around Campanella Station, is the planet on which the majority of Sinkha takes place.
* 451, the number of days in a Kheeban year, is *not* a reference to Fahrenheit 451, but rather a reference to System Shock and the immersive sim genre of games more broadly. Despite popular misconception, this in turn is also not a reference to Fahrenheit 451, but rather the code to unlock the office door at Looking Glass Studios during System Shock's development.
* The veyluu's body shape, proportions, and striped fur, were partially inspired by the Yuke race from Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles, as well as the Mu enemies from the same game.
* The veyluu's body shape and markings were also partially inspired by the Pokémon Furret.
* V'zael's appearance is loosely inspired by that of Vicar Amelia from the game Bloodborne.
* Faridah was originally created for a game of Dungeons & Dragons.
* The cyborg known as "The Owl" was heavily inspired by Monk, an effect character from Incredibox V8: Dystopia.
* Fletcher's H.A.M. darter was heavily inspired by the Spiker from Void Bastards.

## Literature

* Carcosa takes its name from The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers.
* Certain aspects of veyluu architecture are based on hobbit architecture from the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Like hobbits, veyluu dwell primarily in cozy underground burrows.
* Fletcher is named after Fletcher Moon, the protagonist of the novel Half Moon Investigations by Eoin Colfer.

## Music

* The majority of Fletcher's backstory was conceived while listening to Mindless Self Indulgence and *especially* Will Wood.
* The Faraway Kids are named after a lyric from the song Sarajevo by the British-American rock band The Hoosiers.

## Real World

* Notably, and eerily, the plague that nearly wiped out the veyluu predates, and thus was not in any way influenced by, the 2019 SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, still ongoing at the time of this writing.
* The shape of veyluu's tails was heavily inspired by the shape of leopard gecko tails.
* Fletcher's loss of speech and memory due to a head injury were partially inspired by a story its creator was told by a theater tech professor at Wright State University. The professor received a similar head injury while working on set construction, having been struck by a falling object, and suffered similar long term symptoms as a result.
* Veyluu reproducing oviparously was originally an April Fools' joke in 2018, a year when April Fools' Day and Easter fell on the same day. It was almost immediately made canon.
* The Feast of Jolbur Thonnem is roughly analogous to Christmas.
* Ahasi, a veyluu gender, is not only an acronym for "abnormally horny asexual space invader," but also, coincidentally, one of a variety of Ewe words meaning "prostitute" or "whore."
* The gata plant is catnip.
* The bark of the kanella tree is similar, in many ways, to cinnamon, but with the hallucinogenic effects of DMT. It was *not* named after "canela," the Spanish word for cinnamon, despite the similarity between the two.

## Web Content

* Fle'chrr's prisoner ID number, 56398762351111213, is a reference to the ClickHole video "This Veterinarian Singing To A Family About How He Had To Murder Their Cat Is Clearly Josh Groban."
* Before settling on "Veyluu" as a species name, "Yinglet" was considered. This was until it was discovered that the name was already taken by an eerily similar original species.
* Veyluu architecture and its aesthetic is heavily based on the "primitive building" genre of videos popular on YouTube.
* The Unnameable Vermin are synx, which the veyluu's creator has an intense dislike of.
* The Fo'Sha region's name is a reference to the Deadly Space Action! episode "Find Me in the Belly of the Beast," in which a character states "The Fo'Sha regions are only for experienced warriors."