THE SECRET WORLD OF SANTA CLAUS

1. Small Summary of the series
2. Small Characterize of the main characters
3. Fanfictions

Each episode usually starts out showing Santa Claus preparing for Christmas and doing some Christmas-related activities at his workshop. Then two recurring villains (Gruzzlebeard and his partner Dudley) show up trying to foil Santa's plan and ruin the hopes of children. The two trolls usually end up actually finding themselves in a trap that they constructed themselves and the show usually ends showing that all of Santa's things end up turning out fine.

Santa Claus is Father Christmas. He owns a large workshop in the North Pole with his three elves. He owns a sleigh with reindeer. It is not clear how long he has been Santa Claus or how old he is but in the episode "The 12 Labours of Santa Claus" it is revealed that he has been Santa Claus for at least 100 years. Also in "The Christmas Conference" he stated they had successfully ended the 451st annual Christmas Conference, so he has apparently been in the job for a long time. He is always shown in the classic Santa outfit; a red suit, hat, pants and black boots with golden buckles.

Thoren is the only female elf at the workshop and she is often very caring and kind. She always wants things to turn out best for Santa Claus (just like the other elves) and she is the one who looks out for everyone's safety. Her powers enable her to fly, become invisible for short periods of time and she is able to translate any known language on the planet, including animals. Because she cannot hold her powers for long amounts of time it is believed that she is the second oldest elf, next to Jordi.

Guilfi is the tallest elf at the workshop and is great with mechanics. He wears a red hat and constantly has his sleeves rolled up. He has not graduated to the level of Master elf like Thoren or Jordi; hence why he is usually left at the workshop and has no powers (until the last episode where he develops telekinesis).

Jordi is presumably the oldest elf due to his refined magical skills. He is the shortest and wears a red hat with a pompom. His undershirt is usually untucked. He is the brains of the three and a mechanic like Guilfi. He is always willing to help people, but usually jumps in without thinking. He has the power to change into any animal for any period of time.

Balbo is a polar bear that acts as Santa's assistant. In one episode it is revealed that Santa found him when he got lost at sea on an iceberg and separated from his parents. Santa found him and took him to his workshop. Balbo is very playful and also horribly clumsy. He usually watches the workshop with Guilfi.

Gruzzlebeard is the main villain in the series and often tries to foil Santa's plan and ruin Christmas. He appears in almost every episode trying to foil Santa's plan, but in the end he often ends up stuck in his own trap. He is a large Troll, almost human in appearance with a large blue gruzzled beard (hence his name) and a bald, cone-shaped head. He enjoys bossing Dudley around and playing the guitar (which he isn't very good at). He usually refers to Santa as 'That Red-suited Sap' or 'Bulbnose', the elves as 'The Oafs' and the reindeer as 'The Hatracks'.

Dudley is a different species of Troll from Gruzzlebeard (Dudley is a Terrible Troll, which is a close cousin of elves). This was confirmed in "The Story of the Trolls" where in order to find out how to defeat a Terrible Troll, Santa & the Elves had to ask a Terrible Troll themselves; in which they removed Dudley's hat while he was asleep and found out that the globe attached to his head was made of steel. Up to that episode however there was never anything under his hat and Gruzzlebeard had even called him an elf on numerous occasions (and his ears are more like an elves' than a troll's) Dudley can be just as sneaky and evil as Gruzzlebeard, but he does have a good side. He has often helped Santa (probably just to save his own butt) and is often fed up with the way Gruzzlebeard treats him.

The three reindeer that pull Santa's sleigh are Rudolph, his father Donner and the talkative Blitzen. The other two don't have very big roles; Rudolph got his own episode in the show where he thought no one wanted him around. He ran away and befriended a young Inuit boy, though they eventually parted ways when Santa came looking for him.

(all sources: wikipedia)

The following Stories are written in German. If I find the time and people are interested I might translate a story but just under the condition I have a Beta-Reader whose native language is English.

FANFICTION:

Another way of Celebrating Christmas
A young boy writes a letter to Santa Claus in which he asks for the resuscitation of his older sister who had died in an accidant on christmas one year ago.
The elves visit the house to learn that not just the sister of the young boy Jason died but the whole family of his sister's friend too. Now the friend of his dead sister takes care of him while his parents are on business travels. The elves talk to the girl about the wish and in the end they have a solution for this problem. It is not the sister Jason wishes for but that his parents are with him and that his sister's friend has a new family too.
Now Guilfi talks his colleagues into taking the girl with them home. The girl doesn't really want to come with them but she doesn't really have some sort of a choice. And so she will experience a whole new way of celebrating christmas.

Christmas Wishes
A girl meets Guilfi on the street while he is looking for Thoren who got lost on a mission. The girl is disguised as an elf for her friend who became pretty ill and couldn't attend her job. She is pretty fascinated by Guilfi. She just wants to see him again and he promises her to find her again. But in the end he doesn't come to see her and the girl gets kind of frustrated, not knowing that he really is an elf.
Santa Claus and Thoren get to know, that this girl doesn't really like christmas actually and they want to find out why.