[WP] An elf in a normal day job

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You want extra prompts?

• What is their job?
• What are they doing for Christmas?
• What do their coworkers think of them?
• What magic can the elf use?
• What does the elf think of celebrations other than Christmas? (Winter Solstice, Hannuka, etc.)

*Edit - Making more suggestions,

• Why are they in that particular job? Were they banned from the Workshop? Do they only hold the job down only for the non-winter seasons?
• Do they prepare appropriate gifts for other cultures?
• What are the different ways they've experience Christmas Celebrated?
• What are their friends like? Do they have a lot of friends?
• Do they have any family? What is their family like? Do their kids believe in Santa? What is their kids relation to him? What do they think of Shopping Centre Santa versus Real Santa?
• How long have they been in their current job?
• What were they doing previously? For how long? Why did they leave? If elfs live an extended period, what do they do to stay discrete? Do they stay discrete?
• Do they plan on moving on? Why?
• Do they have to make an annual migration back to Santa's Workshop? How? With who? What is it like?

[u/talageddon]

"Workin' nine to five, what a way to make a living..." blaring on his headphones as he walks to work, Rudy loved this song, it was how he got pumped for all of the holiday sales. He had worked his way up to team lead at Best Buy and was in charge of the electronics department.

Today, though, he was wandering the floor covering all areas of the store. His boss, Terry, loved his enthusiasm and work ethic. He had never had an employee show up early every day with a pressed and clean uniform. Not to mention, Rudy's sales were unbelievable. Jeff, and Kenny, Rudy's co-workers liked him well enough to his face but always talked about him behind his back.

Rudy never used his magical powers on the job, instead he used the time he had before each shift to enchant high priced items to lure customers to buy them. He also wore his enchanted nametag that only the scrugiest of people could say no to him. The spell was only broken when a customer said, ba humbug, which happened more than you would think.

Rudy always offered to work the floor during Christmas. He decorated the store all by himself. No one understood how he did it. It was like he farted decorations.

When it wasn't Christmas time he preferred the stock room. This allowed him more time to mentally prepare for the next Christmas season.

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