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I can take the Daidí and Mam out. That was something I had debated. I intended his parents to have been from an Irish enclave in the USA but to have been here for many generations. I could just as well make him Minnesota Swedish.

What age would be more believable for a kid who googled around for info like this? I am assuming that since Santa Claus runs in effect a major corporation he's very intelligent. So is Tina.

Is it too computer knowledge heavy?

The change from an elf looking pretty much like a regular human to a cute, little form started with late 19th century Christmas stuff. Santa Claus is an elf according to line 45 of the Clement Moore poem, but to look at him you wouldn't know it. He was depicted as human sized. Perhaps I need to have Santa Claus explain that his mother was within the human size range and that Tolkein made up the cute little elf thing.

I tried to have a Santa Claus that fits the behavior of the common Clement Moore poem but not necessarily the personality.

https://mythology.wikia.com/wiki/Elf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elf

https://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/elves/

https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/revealing-true-nature-elves-dangerous-beauties-and-diabolical-fiends-004978