Entity Designation: 12-XC
Code name: "Killer Clause"
Threat Class: Delta
Containment Status: Uncontained / Recurrent Manifestation
Observed Activity Window: December 25th, 00:00 – 23:59 (local time)
Threat Profile:
Entity 12-XC, known colloquially as "Killer Clause," is a humanoid anomaly manifesting exclusively on December 25th. The entity adopts the visual appearance of a traditional Western depiction of Santa Claus, complete with red coat, boots, and white beard, though often bloodstained by the end of its manifestation cycle.
At a glance, it appears festive and familiar. Closer inspection reveals significant anatomical irregularities: the entity stands over 2.3 meters tall, with inhuman strength and silent movement. Its eyes glow a dim, pulsating red, and its face is fixed in a grotesque permanent grin, revealing sharpened, irregular teeth far exceeding normal human count.
In one hand, it carries a heavy, rusted axe, often decorated with crude carvings resembling snowflakes, reindeer, or holiday-themed symbols. Despite its weight and size, the entity wields the axe with alarming precision and speed. The weapon appears anomalously durable, unaffected by melting, corrosion, or breakage, and has resisted all known retrieval attempts.
Killer Clause demonstrates:
Absolute regeneration: All physical injuries, including decapitation, incineration, and dismemberment, are healed within seconds.
Apparent immortality: The entity cannot be terminated through any known method.
Partial intangibility or cloaking: Capable of vanishing from locked cells, bypassing security systems, and remaining unseen by surveillance during active hours.
Cognitive resistance: Personnel assigned to track or terminate Killer Clause often report increasing apathy or misplaced holiday nostalgia, hindering coordinated responses.
Each year, attempts to contain or neutralize Killer Clause result in failure. Notably, the entity demonstrates evolutionary resistance, becoming more resilient to previous years' suppression methods. Some patterns suggest it even "remembers" Foundation personnel.
By
In 20██, the Foundation deployed Red Snow, a specialized kill team formed exclusively to combat Entity 12-XC. The team successfully lured the entity into a sealed cryogenic chamber reinforced with null-metal restraints and anti-cognitive dampeners.
At exactly 00:01 on December 26th, Killer Clause vanished. No breach alarms were triggered. All monitoring equipment showed zero motion, zero sound, and no heat signatures, save for one anomaly: a pile of ashes shaped like a sleigh, resting where the entity had been restrained.
Defense Protocol: Entity 62-XL (Merryman) aka "HOLIDAYCHEER"
Codename: "Merryman"
Threat Class: Beta–Gamma (Variable)
Observed Activity Period: December 20th – January 1st
Motive Profile: Unclear / Conceptually Responsive
Threat Profile:
Entity 62-XL, referred to by field agents as "Merryman," is a humanoid anomaly that manifests annually during the winter holiday period. The entity is dressed in brightly colored clothing — typically obnoxiously festive sweaters, tinsel scarves, and blinking LED accessories. Its skin is unnaturally pale, and its smile never drops, regardless of circumstance.
62-XL exudes a powerful affective field, inducing euphoria, laughter, and spontaneous singing in civilians within a 20-meter radius. Exposure to this field produces forced emotional uplift even in clinically depressed individuals. Prolonged exposure may result in loss of emotional autonomy, dissociative episodes, and "joy psychosis."
Behavior: 62-XL appears in public gatherings, office parties, or small family events — often uninvited — and proceeds to overwhelm the atmosphere with artificial cheer.
Any form of disrespect, sarcasm, rejection, or failure to return the "holiday spirit" triggers an instant behavioral shift.
Victims are stalked for a period of hours or days, during which they report unexplainable feelings of guilt, dread, and hallucinations involving festive imagery.
Killings are brutal and personalized — often staged in ironic holiday-themed displays (e.g., drowned in eggnog, dismembered inside gift boxes, bodies shaped into "tree" forms with lights and hooks).
Anomalous Capabilities:
Emotion-Based Triggering: Merryman's aggression is not spatial or verbal but emotional. A subject may say nothing, but thinking "Christmas sucks" has triggered responses.
Spatial Warping: Can enter locked areas, appear in reflections, and phase through walls.
Temporal Echoes: Victims report hearing laughter days before any sighting.
Laughter Tracking: Some victims were hunted by following the echo pattern of their own laughter artificially generated by the entity.
Protocol Overview: HOLIDAY CHEER
Purpose:
HOLIDAY CHEER is an annual, Foundation-wide operational protocol designed to detect, deter, and neutralize manifestations of Entity 12-XC
Core Objectives:
Minimize civilian casualties and property damage during Clause's active period.
Suppress the entity's ability to manifest through environmental and cultural disruption.
Deploy specialized tactical units ("Red Snow") equipped with anti-anomalous gear for direct engagement.
Utilize technological and psychological countermeasures, including cryogenic containment and anti-memetic devices.
Auxiliary Measures:
In cases where standard countermeasures fail, Entity 62-XL ("Merryman") may be deployed as a living counter-agent. Merryman's intense "holiday cheer" presence disrupts Killer Clause's predatory patterns by oversaturating the metaphysical space it occupies.
Risks and Considerations:
While effective against Killer Clause, Merryman is highly unpredictable and hostile to individuals who reject or disrespect holiday traditions.
Deployment of Merryman requires strict clearance, civilian evacuation, and post-event psychological treatment.
All personnel involved in the protocol must be trained to recognize signs of emotional manipulation and memetic infection.
Transcript: Foundation Briefing Room, December 15th, 20██
Agent Harper: (extending hand) Welcome to Site 47. I'm Harper — you're the new recruit, right?
Agent Lee: (shaking hand) That's me. Just finished training at HQ. Ready to get to work.
Harper: Good. You picked a hell of a time to join. Holiday season's always... interesting around here.
Lee: I've heard the rumors. Something about an annual threat? Thought it was just folklore.
Harper: Folklore's what the public sees. We deal with the real monsters. Every year, on December 25th, something calls itself "Killer Clause." A remorseless predator in a Santa suit. Immortal, invisible to most tech, and nearly impossible to stop.
Lee: Sounds like a nightmare.
Harper: Worse. It kills indiscriminately until the clock strikes midnight on the 26th, then disappears — leaving behind nothing but ashes shaped like a sleigh.
Lee: How do you fight something like that?
Harper: We have a protocol. It's called HOLIDAY CHEER.
At its core, we suppress the cultural energy that feeds it — cutting off decorations, Christmas music, anything that amps up its power.
We send in our specialized unit, Red Snow, fully armored and ready to contain or eliminate it.
Lee: And that actually works?
Harper: Mostly. But sometimes, when all else fails... we call in a wild card.
Lee: A wild card?
Harper: Another entity — "Merryman." He's the literal embodiment of forced cheer. Over-the-top happy, almost unbearable. And deadly. If you disrespect him, he'll hunt you down and kill you in some twisted holiday fashion.
Lee: So... you unleash one killer on another?
Harper: Exactly. Merryman's pure joy messes with Clause's predatory cycle. But he's just as dangerous. It's a delicate balance — a fight between two monsters, with us caught in the middle.
Lee: That's... terrifying.
Harper: Welcome to the Foundation. If you can survive the holidays here, you can survive anything.
Transcript Excerpt: Timber Falls Incident, December 25th, 20██Red Snow Charlie-5 Squad Radio
[00:31:04]
Charlie-5 Leader (Simms): Squad, move to grid 7B. Eyes peeled — Clause's last known position. Stay sharp.
Agent Hayes: Roger that. Thermal's picking up nothing, but I swear I just saw movement by that alley.
Agent Pruitt: You're not imagining things. Something's there... maybe behind the dumpsters.
[00:32:17]
Simms: Hold position and prep cryo grenades. We can't afford mistakes.
[00:32:46]
Sudden scream over radio
Agent Hayes: Ahh! I'm hit! Left shoulder—he swung!
Simms: Fall back! Pruitt, cover him!
[00:33:02]
Gunfire and loud, heavy thuds
Agent Pruitt: No! Pruitt down! Clause's right behind me—he's coming! (radio cuts out abruptly)
[00:33:18]
Simms: Mayday! We're under direct assault! Charlie-5 is compromised! Need evac! Repeat, need immediate evac!
[00:33:35]
Static. Then faint breathing.
Agent Hayes: I'm bleeding out... can't move... Simms, tell my wife... I love her...
[00:34:00]
Simms: Hang on, Hayes! We're pulling you
out!
[00:34:07]
Loud crash and a guttural growl
Simms: Clause just broke through the containment barrier! We're surrounded!
[00:34:15]
Agent Alvarez: Shots fired—Alvarez KIA!
[00:34:30]
Simms: All units, retreat to secondary position! We're losing this sector!
[00:35:00]
Simms: This is a cluster. The axe's swings are tearing through us. We lost Hayes, Pruitt, Alvarez, and two others. Hold on, Red Snow!
[00:35:12]
RSC: Charlie-5, status report! Respond!
No response
[00:36:45]
Simms: (final transmission) Clause is coming for me... if anyone hears this... finish the job. Don't let him win.
Transcript Excerpt — Timber Falls Incident, December 25th, 20██Red Snow Command (RSC) Radio Channel
[00:36:50]
RSC: Damn it! Damn it! Come in, Charlie-5! Do you copy!?
(Static… then faint, eerie laughter echoes through the channel)
[00:36:55]
Killer Clause (over radio, voice cold and mocking): Don't be sad… your friends are in heaven now... if there even is one.
(Laughter—deep, hollow, chilling)
[00:36:59]
RSC: FUCK!
(Suddenly, a heavy thud behind the radio operator — he spins around sharply)
[00:37:02]
RSC Operator: Gasps Clause?!
(Killer Clause steps into the dim light, swinging his axe effortlessly, and in a swift, brutal motion, chops off the operator's head)
[00:37:05]
(Silence, broken only by heavy breathing and distant sirens)
[00:37:07]
(Clause's headless body staggers, then glances sharply to the side)
[00:37:08]
Voice from the shadows, unnervingly cheerful: Ho ho ho! Looks like you could use a little more... holiday spirit.
[00:37:10]
(A figure steps into the light — Entity 62-XL, "Merryman," grinning unnaturally wide, clad in garish festive gear, eyes gleaming with manic joy)
[00:37:12]
Killer Clause: Growls in frustration No… no! Away!
[00:37:15]
(The two anomalies lock eyes — one a relentless killer, the other an unyielding force of twisted cheer — as the battlefield shifts with their clash)
Transcript Excerpt — Timber Falls Incident, December 25th, 20██Entity Engagement: Killer Clause vs. Merryman
[00:37:17]
(Merryman steps forward, his voice lilting with unnerving glee)
Merryman: Oh, sweetie, you just don't get it. This is the season of joy! And you? You're the grinch who came to ruin the party.
[00:37:22]
(Killer Clause snarls, swinging his axe in a wide arc. The blade whistles through the air, but Merryman vanishes in a shimmer of sparkling light — reappearing behind Clause.)
[00:37:25]
RSC Operator (radio): static crackling Everyone, fall back! Merryman's engaging Clause directly!
[00:37:28]
(Merryman grabs Clause's axe arm, laughter ringing like jingle bells. The weapon begins
to glow with a sickly festive light.)
[00:37:30]
Killer Clause: roars in fury, struggling Get off me! You're a damn nightmare!
[00:37:33]
Merryman: Maybe... but nightmares are part of the fun! Time to turn that grudge into a gift!
[00:37:35]
(A wave of blinding multicolored light pulses from Merryman's body. The battlefield distorts — reality warps as ethereal ribbons of song and laughter ripple through the air.)
[00:37:40]
RSC Sniper (radio): Clause's form is flickering! He's losing coherence — like he's being overwritten!
[00:37:42]
(Clause thrashes violently, screams mixing with distorted carols. His axe shatters into candy-cane shards.)
[00:37:45]
Merryman: You can't kill joy. It eats monsters like you for breakfast!
[00:37:48]
(Clause staggers back, but then lashes out with a guttural snarl — Merryman staggers, clutching his side where a deep gash has appeared.)
[00:37:50]
RSC Field Medic (radio): Merryman's taking damage! He's not invincible!
[00:37:53]
Merryman: grins wider Heh, what's Christmas without a little blood?
[00:37:56]
(Clause roars, lunging with renewed ferocity. The clash of axe and festive garb sends sparks and confetti flying.)
[00:38:00]
RSC Commander: Red Snow units, hold formation! Protect Merryman at all costs! This fight decides everything!
[00:38:05]
(The two anomalies continue their brutal, surreal battle)
Transcript: Clause–62-XL Engagement – Timber Falls, 20██[00:38:14]
[Visual Feed: Bodycam – Red Snow
Operative #019]
Entity 12-XC swings its axe at Entity 62-XL (Merryman)
[00:38:15]
[Anomalous Shift Detected]
Axe transmutes mid-swing into a balloon construct — striped red and white, matching prior psychological profile of 62-XL's "humor-based distortion field."
Merryman: (flat tone) Pop.
(Physically bursts the balloon. The sound echoes unnaturally.)
[00:38:17]
Entity 12-XC: Huh!? …Damn you.
[00:38:18]
Clause initiates forward charge. Makes direct physical contact — both hands around Merryman's throat. Begins constriction.
[00:38:20]
Merryman: Gasp—
[Biometric Alert: Oxygen flow disrupted. Spinal compression threshold nearing critical.]
[00:38:23]
Merryman's palms emit low-frequency blue-white light.
[Thermal Signature Drop Detected]
—14°C in 0.8 sec.
[00:38:25]
Clause's forearms begin crystallizing — ice rapidly forming along epidermis, converting tissue into stone-like frost. Crackling sound reported via all active comms.
[00:38:27]
Transcript Continued – Clause–62-XL Engagement[00:38:28]
[Structural Scan: Entity 12-XC]
Full-body thermal drop confirmed. Molecular motion halted. Ice crystallization at 100%. Subject frozen solid in combat stance.
[00:38:30]
[Entity 62-XL] releases grip.
Steps back. Expression: nonverbal amusement.
Merryman: (cheerfully) And now… let's warm things up a little.
[00:38:32]
[Anomalous Materialization Detected]
— Object Type: Improvised incendiary
— Visual: Candy cane–striped flamethrower with oversized red bow
— Source: Unknown / Localized spatial fold
[00:38:34]
Merryman activates the device.
[Thermal Surge]
Focused flame jets across frozen Clause.
[00:38:36]
Ice begins to melt rapidly. Structural cohesion of Entity 12-XC destabilizing.
[00:38:40]
Water floods the immediate area. Clause's form reduced to liquefied remains.
Transcript Continued – Post-Engagement: Timber Falls, December 25th, 20██[00:39:12]
[Red Snow Command – Mobile Uplink Channel]
RSC Officer (Hale):
Confirmed melt. Clause's form dispersed. No remaining hostile signals on thermal or conceptual scans. Merryman is… standing over the puddle.
[00:39:22]
Red Snow Unit Echo-1:
Target neutralized…? You kidding me? He actually did it.
Red Snow Unit Bravo-4:
Laughs I'll be damned. The psycho elf pulled it off!
[00:39:30]
Merryman (over wide-band broadcast, still holding the flaming candy-cane launcher):
Now that's what I call a merry meltdown! Ho ho ho!
[00:39:33]
[Background: Audible cheering from surviving units]
[00:39:42]
RSC Officer (Hale):
All surviving operatives, secure the zone. Initiate post-anomaly sweep. And someone get Merryman off the comms before he starts singing again.
Red Snow Unit Delta-7:
First round's on me. Never thought I'd survive Christmas of all things.
[00:40:10]
[POST-EVENT ANOMALOUS DETECTION: NONE]
[ENTITY 12-XC STATUS: LIQUEFIED – NO REFORMATION DETECTED]
[ENTITY 62-XL STATUS: STABLE – WITHDRAWAL PENDING]
Foundations Note:
"They're both Christmas. One kills because no one believes. The other kills if you don't believe hard enough. Pick your nightmare."
Overview:
Killer Clause — A recurring humanoid anomaly manifesting annually on December 25th. Appears as a distorted version of Santa Claus. Displays extreme regenerative ability, high physical durability, and limited reality resistance. Known for unpredictable violence, targeted killings, and resistance to long-term containment. Disappears exactly at 00:01 on December 26th.
Holiday Cycle Manifestation — Killer Clause only appears during a 24-hour period once per year. Attempts to contain or terminate it during this window have failed due to spontaneous demanifestation and unknown teleportation capabilities.
Delta-Class Threats — Entities that pose direct physical danger with anomalous durability, regeneration, or combat aptitude. Typically repeat offenders. Dangerous through proximity, interaction, or cyclical appearances. Example: KillerClause.
Unit Red Snow — Foundation-aligned strike team designated for high-risk holiday anomalies. Specializes in temporal pattern response and seasonal threat suppression.
Protocol HOLIDAY CHEER — A specialized contingency plan involving the deployment of counter-anomaly Entity 62-XL (Merryman). Utilizes metaphysical emotional polarity (joy vs. despair) to weaken Killer Clause and prevent escalation.
Entity 62-XL "Merryman" — A cognitively unstable humanoid anomaly that exhibits exaggerated holiday-themed behavior. Effective against Killer Clause due to polar conceptual alignment. Exhibits cartoon-logic effects and spontaneous anomalous tool creation. Deploy only in extreme cases.