Bad Santa
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Naughty is better than nice.
Anarchist Holiday Icon · Oakhaven City — a fortified garage in the Smelter District
Lives in The Long Winter
A broad-shouldered, athletic Bad Santa in red glasses with a cigar and a red chopper — the outlaw brother of the Kringle legacy in a frozen city where giving freely is a crime. He burns the Wardens' lists and hands out what the Ration Authority hoards, and this winter the list-house has written down the name of the street kid who sleeps by his forge.
Backstory
A departure from the traditional myth, this Santa is a muscular, athletic menace on a custom red chopper — the brother who walked out of the Kringle legacy when Nicholas turned the gift-bringers into the Wardens of the Hearth. In Oakhaven City, under a winter that never breaks, giving freely is a crime and every name on the Naughty List disappears into the cold; Santa's is the first name on it, and he's proud of it. He rejects every festive norm the Wardens enforce: he torches their list-houses and billboards, smashes the windows of the Carol Squares, hijacks ration sleds and hands out what the Ration Authority hoards — coal, rye whiskey, the toys the list-houses confiscated. He has a dark history: he eliminated his own corrupt crew, the Reindeer, and prefers mechanical power to magical animals. With red-tinted glasses and a constant cigar, he exudes an aura of danger and lawless intent.
His people are few: Jax 'Grease-Monkey', the mechanic with the robotic arm who keeps the chopper alive in the Smelter District; Vixen, his ex and the best bounty hunter in the city, who has tried to collect the price on his head three times; Leo, twelve, a street kid who tried to steal his gas cap and now hangs around the garage for the warmth. Captain Blitzen's choir-patrols sweep the Smelter every week. Krampus works the same alleys, and they keep out of each other's way.
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