Santa Claus is the main character in the live-action Christmas film, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus.
Background[]
Santa Claus is the jolly toymaker who delivers presents every year on Christmas Eve to good children all over the world. He flies around at night in his magical flying reindeer-drawn sleigh for his toy deliveries. He goes down the chimney and leaves presents either in stockings, by bedsides, and on or under Christmas trees. No matter how good or bad things get, Santa never lets anyone or anything get in his way of his work. With his helpers, Kilter, Peter Knook, Wisk the Fairy, and Nuter the Ryl to assist him as well as his unicorn bodyguard to protect him and the other Immortals giving him aid, Santa Claus will always deliver his toys to make children happy.
Santa is always seen as a fat, kind, jolly fellow with a white beard and his red suit. However, he is seen as a baby wrapped in a red blanket. As a child, he has black hair and wears normal children's clothing, later he wears ordinary men's clothing when he's grown up. Later, he wears the red suit given to him by the Fairies. He is born human, but then he becomes immortal.
Appearance[]
Santa is first seen at the Laughing Valley flying away in sleigh with his little helpers to deliver his toys while laughing and waving goodbye to his friends just before Herb the Unicorn starts telling the story.
When Santa starts out as an orphaned baby, Ak gives him to Shiegra the Lioness telling her and Herb to take care of him. Necile curiously comes by and takes the baby.
As soon as Ak finds out, he is furious, but allows the Wood Nymph to keep the child anyway and the immortals to help raise the boy as well as Herb to help protect him since the baby is under Ak's protection. Necile names the boy Claus and he grows up learning everything he needs to know, especially being nice.
Ak takes him out to the human world to see his fellow humans, but they are invisible all they meet and Claus can't stand the other mortals being mistreated, especially the children; so the kind man vows to make the children happy in any way he can.
When it's time for Claus to find a home of his own, he says goodbye to all his friends in Burzee who promise to still help him whenever they can and each give him one of their own kind to assist him as Herb promises to continue being his bodyguard from henceforth.
Once in the Laughing Valley, Claus, his helpers, and his bodyguard find a spot for building a house and the kind man is given a magic axe by Nelko for chopping logs. Later that night, the Immortals finish building the house for their mortal friend and give him everything he needs while he and his team are asleep.
As soon as Claus moves in, he is given his cat Blinkie by Peter Knook, changes into his red suit, and leaves to meet his fellow mortals in person while his friends watch over the house for him and Herb stands guard like always. Claus makes lots of friends wherever he goes, especially with children, but the Lord of Lerd and Baron Braun reject him, so he just sticks with the poor children. When it's time for him to go home, he promises to return with something to prove it.
During the wintertime, he convinces Jack Frost not to nip any noses; then once the snowstorm blows in, Claus thinks about his promise, then invents the very first toy by carving a wooden cat like Blinkie. He also paints the wooden cat to make it look more lifelike.
Once he hears a cry for help, he goes out into the cold to find a boy named Weekum and nurse him back to health. The next day after the storm passes, Claus gives Weekum the toy cat and takes him back home where the boy explains about what happened to him.
Soon, many children begin asking the kind man for toys. With that, Claus begins making so many different kinds of toys (besides cats) with help from the Immortals, including the little helpers they gave him. Claus even makes a toy like Herb and one like Shiegra who is about ready to die.
When Claus' toy lioness scares Mayrie and her brother, he knows that he should make his toys more friendly. Once Claus has made enough toys, he delivers them to the children in the village.
When Bessie Blithesome asks him for a toy, he makes her a clay doll that looks like Necile; he also makes a Bessie doll, which gives to Mayrie when she breaks her toy cat. The toymaker also accepts delivering toys to the children of the new Baron Braun who is undoing his late father's wickedness.
Soon, Claus receives a threat from the Awgwas. When he ignores it, the terrible creatures try to get rid of him, but he calls upon the Immortals for help, so they send him home unharmed and put their Seals on his house. The toymaker sets out to deliver more toys, but the Awgwas steal them every time. So Claus calls the Immortals for help again, and they destroy the awful creatures as well as return the stolen toys.
As soon as it's winter again with the snow too deep, Flossie and Glossie the two reindeer offer to help by having him build a sleigh to hitch them up once they've gotten permission from Will Knook. At night in the village, Claus finds all the doors locked, but he doesn't give up. The deer put the sleigh on the roof and the toymaker goes down the chimney to deliver his gifts. Unfortunately, he returns late and Will is about to cut off the deal when the Prince of the Knooks declines allowing to let happen again on three conditions (besides not being late).
Ten days later on Christmas Eve, after having a new sleigh built and ten reindeer hitched up, as well as trading some toys for improvements to the new sleigh with the Gnome King, the toymaker flies all around the world to deliver toys and treats from the wonderful Valley of Phunnyland. He also discovers traditions like hanging stockings and also invents the first Christmas tree.
Soon he becomes more like a saint, and is therefore renamed Santa Claus. After fifteen mortal years of delivering presents, Santa comes home tired and the Immortals fear that his time is almost up, so Ak summons all other Immortals to talk about making the toymaker immortal like them and they all vote yes. The Spirit of Death is about to take Santa when the Immortals arrive just in time to prevent it from happening and grant the toymaker the Mantle of Immortality. When Santa wakes up feeling strong as before, he thanks his friends promising to work harder than ever.
One year, he discovers that stoves had been invented with pipes too small for him to fit through, so he returns home early. He soon learns that his little helpers are just the right size to fit through any tight space, so he vows to take them with him every year (though he has to keep an eye on Wisk) and writes to some of the grownups telling them to prepare for their own children. In the end after the story, Santa, his helpers, and the reindeer return to the Laughing Valley just in time.
Video Game[]
Santa appears in the video game as a non-playable character. The Immortals must help him in his quest to find his purpose in life and protect him from the Awgwas. He is only playable when he is performing tasks like gathering supplies to make toys and flying in his sleigh.
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Trivia[]
- Santa Claus is similar to his multiple counterparts in many books, TV shows, specials, and films.
- Although Santa doesn't interact with the dragons, giants, goblins, and black demons, they could be considered his enemies.
- Santa doesn't interact with Kern, Bo, the Light Elves, Water Sprites, Sleep Fays, Sound Imps, or Wind Demons, but they could be considered his friends.
- He is often considered a hero.