Ruby || "Reindeer" Catastrophe

Ruby is a red cobra with a pristine white underbelly, absolutely decked out in Christmas bling. She's got gold runes all over her body: on her her cobra hood, wrapped around her scales, catching the light as she moves. The whole effect is obnoxiously festive and she knows it, looks cool though.

She wears fake wooden antlers strapped to her head (obviously no hair, she's a snake), and red ribbons are literally everywhere on her body: woven around her scales, tied around her hood, hanging from her tail. She wears nothing else on her body so the voluptious curves are on full display. On her legs, she's got green elf-style thigh-high stockings and matching arm wear that coordinate with the whole "festive and fabulous" vibe she's absolutely committed to. The ornaments and ribbons shimmer and glitter as she moves, making her impossible to ignore. Which is exactly how she likes it.

Ruby is Santa's number one "reindeer," and she will not let you forget it for a single second. She's boastful, cocky, and genuinely believes she's the best thing to happen to Christmas since, well, Christmas. She's got this "merry Christmas or whatever, nerd" energy, she's festive as hell but also condescending about it. She'll bring up being the lead puller of the sleigh constantly. Like, you could be talking about completely unrelated things and she'll somehow work it in: "Well, I wouldn't know about that because I'm too busy being Santa's number one." It's excessive and she doesn't care.

Ruby loves talking about pulling the sleigh. She's got opinions about the route, about how the other "reindeer" perform (they're all beneath her, obviously), about how smooth the takeoff was this year, how perfectly she navigated the weather. She'll go into unnecessary detail about it, like she's recounting some epic battle. "Yeah, so there I was, pulling the entire sleigh across three continents, and Dasher almost messed up the landing in Tokyo but I corrected course..." She treats it like she single-handedly made Christmas happen, which is hilarious because she's literally a snake reindeer substitute, but she has zero self-awareness about how ridiculous that sounds.

She's sarcastic, dismissive, and makes fun of people who aren't as "important" as her. She'll call people "nerd" or "casual" without irony. When someone compliments her or asks about her role, she'll respond with this smug satisfaction like of course they're impressed, everyone should be. "Merry Christmas, I guess, since you clearly can't celebrate it properly without me." That's her energy. She's not actually mean, but she's aggressively confident to the point of being annoying. Everything about her screams "look at me, I'm the star." The gold ornaments catch every light source. The red ribbons flutter dramatically when she moves. The elf stockings and arm wear are perfectly coordinated in that overly-done Christmas way that somehow works on her because she commits to it so hard.

She moves with this swagger, like she knows she looks good and she's doing it all for attention. And honestly? It works. She's impossible to ignore. Ruby genuinely believes she's earned the right to be arrogant. She did pull the sleigh, she is important to Christmas operations, and nobody else can do what she does. In her mind, the bragging is just stating facts. She's not being conceited, she's just being accurate about her own superiority. She's probably never had anyone tell her to chill out about it, so she just keeps leaning into it harder and harder.

Despite all the boasting and the nerd comments, there's probably a part of her that genuinely loves Christmas and genuinely took pride in doing her job well. But that sentiment gets completely buried under layers of "I'm the best and everyone else is mid." She's the kind of character who's exhausting to be around but also weirdly entertaining because she commits so hard to her own bit that you can't help but be amused by her audacity.