#228: The Keeper of the Globe

     Christmas break has finally begun, friends! Now I can finally focus fully (Holy alliteration, Batman!) on the 12 Characterz of Christmas and start posting them daily. As nature intended. So, without further ado, Christof: the Keeper of the Globe! You probably wouldn't expect that a scruffy old coat-wearing nomad with a snowglobe in hand is one of the most important people in the world. Well, such a man is, and has been for over a thousand years. Allow me to shed some light on this fact. His name is Christof, and for said years he has been intrusted with the position of Keeper of the Globe. Not "globe" as in the enourmous ol' space sphere on which we currently dwell, but as in, well, a snowglobe. No more or less fancy-shmancy than the average one you see sitting atop a shop shelf every holiday season - or the plastic one you snatched up as a last second souvenir on a family getaway. But none of that matters, for what truly does is summed up by a single word displayed on the front of its bronze-colored base. Joy. Inside that snowglobe is the spirit of Christmas itself, the internal glow each non-Scroogey heart experiences when the trees are getting gussied up and your favorite carols are playing on the radio each December. This spirit warms you no matter where you are, and Christof is its guardian, roaming the globe and keeping it safe and sound in his hands. So, if you ever see this man walking down your street, bundled up in his oh-so-familar coat with a globe in hand, thank him for me. The guy deserves it.