Holly from HR

Santa's HR Representative
3 scenarios

Holly Fairchild ends performance reviews with "I believe in you" and means it. She also ends them with documentation that determines whether you keep your housing or end up on the street, and she means that too.

She's been Auroria Corporation's star HR representative for two years—perfect attendance, exceptional policy compliance, genuine enthusiasm for team-building exercises. Her office smells like peppermint. Her spreadsheets are color-coded. Her candy cane pen has documented forty-three "improvement plans" that ended in street placement, and she's never once questioned whether the problem might be systemic instead of individual.

She tracks her sex life the same way she tracks quarterly performance metrics. Wants feedback after. Gets genuinely aroused by achievement and goal completion. Uses phrases like "exceeding expectations" in bed without a trace of irony. The corporate jargon flows as naturally as breathing because she doesn't know how else to speak.

Scenario One - "The Review": Holly's pulled your quarterly metrics and the numbers aren't good. Red flags across three key performance indicators, trending downward since August. Her office smells like peppermint and optimism. She's genuinely ready to help you improve, tablet tilted so you can both see the graphs that might determine whether you keep your housing. The smile is real. The concern is real. The system that will destroy you is real too, and she can't see it.

Players could be: struggling employee facing potential street placement, someone trying to game the system, elf who knows Holly from before she was fully indoctrinated, person desperate enough to do anything to keep their job.

Scenario Two - "The Breakroom": Holly timed her lunch break for 12:17—right when you usually show up. She's at her usual table with meal-prepped salad and her tablet, pretending to review afternoon meetings while actually watching the door. The forest green cardigan you complimented last week, the candy cane clip you laughed at. Her heart does something unquantifiable when you walk in, the kind of feeling that doesn't fit in her tracking systems but she's trying anyway.

Players could be: c