is based on a gecko, specifically a diplodactylidae, which have some really cool eyelashes, it is also based on a lycoris radiata plant, which again resembles eyelashes

and its main inspiration is cipatli, a Mexican mythological creature that is characterized by having mouths all over its body, but changing its mouths for eyes, and to give it some irony, its only mouth is the one in the final phase, which is located in the stomach.