Let's take a moment and think about this old man.
He lives a life of basically solitude with nothing to do but watch EVERYTHING everybody in the whole world does. He knows every dirty little secret you tried to hide, every lie you've ever told, and every misdeed no matter how great or small that you've done. He sees the world in black and white, oh so you stole an apple to feed your starving family in an underdeveloped country torn apart by war? Fuck you, you get nothing. What's that? your children have to eat garbage, rats, and other trash to survive because when you stole that rotten apple or moldy bread you were taken away? Should have thought of that before you took something that wasn't yours. He doesn't care if you have some greater cause, to him he's basically justice judging the world. And those who are not worthy get nothing but a lump of rock, to show their worthlessness. Better luck next year huh?
Oh and let's not forget his little work shop. God knows how many elves work in there and for what? How are they rewarded for being there slaving away creating possibly more than 7 BILLION toys and whatnot for all the people in the world? Jack shit. They are his slaves. He kidnaps these beings and locks them up in basically one of the most inhospitable places on earth. Trying to escape? Have fun leaving at the fucking freezing temperatures of the North Pole. Not to mention the fact that any actual civilization is at least hundreds of miles away from where you are. They can't leave, they can't rebel, because Santa fucking knows. You think he would exclude the elves he has working under him from his watch? Hell no, he knows every little thing they try to do in order to escape. Every plan, every scheme, every goddamn thought about leaving. Santa knows.
But what about Mrs. Claus? I'm sure she's jolly and isn't at all a terrible example of scum given form. Nope. She was probably kidnapped as well, was just some cute girl from a normal family who saw Santa one Christmas as he came into her home. That night he took more than the milk and cookies. He liked this particular girl, he forced her to do all sorts of terrible things that eventually she just developed a kind of Stockholm Syndrome. She loves her captor now, and helps with the torture of the slaves he has. If by some miracle Santa doesn't find out about some activity, she's his second pair of eyes. She'll find it out and snitch you to the big man. There's no running from him, she's gone mad from all the time she's spent with him in that hellhole he calls a workshop. Remember she might be the only female there, being surrounded by Santa and his elves all the time, I can't even begin to imagine what she must go through. And if the thought of escaping ever came to her mind? If she somehow found a way to leave the North Pole and be reunited with her family? It wouldn't do jack shit. Why? Well it's simple, it is because Santa knows.
would gladly take this instead..
