The North Pole and its denizens
2 years ago
(I found this on my phone as I was thinking about doing a Binky story for the holidays. I probably still will, but the meantime I will post this one. I'm at a family get together so posting journals is about all I can do.)
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Not actually located either at the north pole nor at North Pole, Alaska, but rather at an unspecified snowy magical location, this workshop complex supports Santa's yearly flight around the world and his distribution of gifts.
Besides producing gifts and allowing the compilation of the Naughty and Nice lists via its vast network of magical information sources, the North Pole is also home to Santa, his assistants and family, his reindeer, and a large group of elves and other workers.
Santa and his family
Santa Binky: A polar bear who ate Santa Claus and discovered when he burped that There Must Always Be A Santa. He was compelled to assume the role and now Santa is a ten-and-a-half-foot-tall, semi-anthropomorphic polar bear who besides distributing gifts is known for eating people who are far enough down the Naughty List and also visiting with "interested" women during his Christmas Eve flight.
Santa only visits with women, despite many males who express an interest. Even Santa is not perfect and has his own inclinations. He sometimes provides a suitable substitute such as Tiguaak (see below.)
Santa Binky has the power to stretch or compress time on Christmas Eve, a necessary power if one is to visit millions of houses in one night. He can also eat and drink any amount on that night. Santa Claus used this ability to tuck away countless saucers of cookies and glasses of milk left out for him. Binky eats those, and, being a polar bear, also the worst offenders from the Naughty List. How this power works no one is certain, as Binky eats much more than his body weight in offenders in one night yet returns to the Pole no fatter than before.
One theory is he stores them in an extradimensional stomach, similar to his gift bags, and digests them bit by bit. By all rights he eats a whole year's worth of food in one night, yet he eats other things throughout the year too. When he swallows a single person they make their way through his digestive tract in a normal polar bear-ey way but there is no sign of what would reasonably happen if he digested fifty people over the course of a day or so. What happens to them? Where do they go? "Magic," he'll growl if asked, and smile a toothy grin.
He is known to eat people with his sheath or cock, converting people to cum or magically ejaculating them (intact) down the throat of someone giving him a blowjob. Santa Binky works in mysterious ways.
Santa Binky has an innate sense of virtue, a magical ability to rate someone's niceness or naughtiness even from a distance. He uses this skill to edit the Naughty and Nice lists and to judge whether someone should receive a gift, receive nothing, or end up inside a polar bear.
As it seemed greedy to him to eat all the offenders himself, though he easily could, he restricts himself to fifty or so and gives the rest as presents to his predatory wife, assistants, workers or Good List animals who live nearby. Some are gifted to Nice List people who are also given the one-time ability to swallow and digest them. This most often happens to bullies of various sorts, who end up as meals for their victims.
As far as Santa is concerned, a simple animal cannot end up on the Naughty or Nice list no matter what it does. Only when sapience and society is in play is their level of morality judged. A normal bear who eats a human is not Naughty. An intelligent bear who breaks an agreement and eats his neighbors is, though. This keeps a lot of extremely predatory creatures in circulation but it's not Santa's business if a badger somehow manages to trap and gulp down a human. Even intelligent animals can stay off the list if they are simply behaving according to their nature and not violating the rules of society - and if they lack a society, they cannot violate its rules.
Other animals who are potentially naughty are outside Santa's prey range. That cannibalistic right whale probably qualifies and so does a certain colossal leopard seal, but Binky believes in a hands on approach and being too big to swallow turns out to be an excellent defense. Plus, Santa is not invincible and the staff dreads the idea of ending up with a half-million-ton Santa Selene should the seal eat him.
Less severe offenders may receive other punishments, such as being beaten black and blue by gentle taps of a fifteen hundred pound polar bear's paws as a lesson to not take their anger out on the wife or kids. Binky does not eat heads of state or similarly prominent individuals as this might start wars or disrupt the gentleman's agreement that lets states and powers look the other way as hundreds of people vanish down various gullets around Christmas.
One thing that will absolutely get you eaten is impersonating Santa to further your predatory ends, or blaming a death on Binky by claiming the victim was a Naughty List denizen. Binky does not approve of these things at all and he will do something about it, albeit with care as the senior elves have advised him that this is a known way to try to lure a Santa into a trap. This is one of the times that he may take a hands-off approach and use someone else to deal with the offender - a prime opportunity for someone the killer has offended to get the one time ability to eat their nemesis.
Santa and his wife do not age and are supernaturally tough, but not indestructible. The previous Santa was digested by a normal polar bear, after all. Their children and Santa's assistants are mortal, but like the elves, very long lived.
Mrs. Binky: Chugiak was a perfectly normal non-intelligent polar bear sow happened by the North Pole after Binky took over. Binky has to use magical means to fuck smaller lovers in many cases (it's not just chimneys he can fit into, so to speak) but Chugiak wasn't one of those and he enthusiastically mounted the very willing bear sow. They discovered together that There Must Always Be A Mrs. Claus. She assumed the semi-anthro look and intelligence of her husband and they were soon officially married.
Chugiak is named after a mountain range near Anchorage and the joke at the north pole is that "Only Binky can climb that mountain." In fact she allows others to do so, but its is best done carefully as she sometimes sucks lovers into her purple polar bear snatch, where they are digested. No one is quite sure why a Mrs. Claus needs this ability but one otter worker with an acid proof wet suit (a Christmas present from Binky, naturally) has taken the opportunity to "visit" with Chugiak, his suit allowing him to be spat out of her carnivorous pussy undigested.
Despite the predatory qualities of her sex which should by all rights digest Santa's semen, she has borne him two sons.
Adak: The older son, he is seven feet of mostly-grown polar bear and old enough to be interested in women. This Christmas he asked to "visit" with one of Santa's assistants and while Binky told him he couldn't order his assistant to sleep with his son, the assistant happily did it anyway. Like Tiguaak (see below) he benefits from being around various elves and other creatures that have the hots for Binky but don't want to annoy Binky's other lovers. It is a good place to be a horny polar bear.
Lusty and shortsighted, Binky has had to remind him that he's not actually allowed to rape his Naughty List Christmas presents. He's just supposed to eat them.
Halu: The younger son, only about five feet tall and too young to share Adak's interests. He is quite pudgy for a polar bear and is known to swallow and digest prey larger than he is. Adak thinks with his dick, Halu with his stomach, and like Adak he has to be told that even Santa's sons have to follow some rules. "Don't eat the elves," for example.
Santa's Assistants
Four ladies, two from nearby and two from distant lands. All were Binky's lovers before he assumed his current role, which goes to show that nepotism is alive and well at the North Pole. They are still his lovers, but they also do a lot of work supervising various elf teams.
Each is capable of swallowing and digesting same-size prey and each was given a second predatory ability by Binky for Christmas several years back.
Llewella: an arctic fox whose fur is always white. She did not like her "blue" summer color phase and simply stopped color changing with the seasons. Llewella dresses in light green with tassels. Several years back Binky gifted each assistant with a new ability and Llewella became an unbirth pred like Mrs. Binky, though she prefers to use her mouth. It is probably not a coincidence that the "Suck and swallow" effect of her predatory sex makes it more fun for Santa to fuck her. He's big enough that he doesn't have to worry about being sucked in.
Florimel/Flora: a melanistic (black) jaguaress. Habitually wears a dark green outfit with mistletoe both on her tail-root and on the end of her tail. She uses this to get people to kiss her furry pussy, which would be a charming habit if she too weren't an UB pred. Quite a few people have gone in for a kiss only to be sucked in and digested. Like Llewella, her womb acts as a second stomach and prey gets out of her body the same way whether it goes in via her mouth or pussy, via the pink star under her tail.
(It is not known whether the two unbirth pred assistants can have children. When this ability manifests in nature it almost always precludes pregnancy as semen is digested instead of impregnating them. There are exceptions to this and their abilities are magical, so perhaps we'll find out one of these days.)
Deirdre: a skunkette with a great brush of fluffy tail. Wears a red outfit with many bows on her tail. Deirdre's tail is predatory and can eat people two ways. Wrapping people up in the fur can digest them, with the bones spat out for Mirelle (see below) to crunch up. Alternately, the fur can bunch up around someone and swallow them, sending them somehow into Deidre's stomach. Unlike some tail preds she has full control over it and can use its prehensile fur to provide tailjobs, potentially to multiple males at once or to one very large one.
(There's a sperm whale bull who stops by the inlet by the workshop from time to time, for example. He has more than once turned the skunkette's black fur white and sticky from her nose to her tailtip.)
Mirelle: youngest and least senior of Binky's assistants, this wolverine wears a simple red leather harness which doesn't cover very much at all. She has a love of anal sex and well before Binky became Santa she took his formidable pole up the ass. Her new ability was, of course, anal vore. Besides sucking whole people into her ass and digesting them this also makes her a more entertaining lover for Binky due to the muscular suction action.
(Arguably, all four assistants got new abilities that made them more interesting lovers. Binky thinks of himself sometimes. He's allowed to do that.)
She was the assistant that Adak wanted to "visit with" this Christmas because he correctly guessed what it would feel like to sodomize her. Binky was careful to ask her beforehand, "Please don't suck my son into your asshole", even though Adak is probably too big to fit. Probably.
The three "lower hole" pred assistants sometimes play a tug of war game in which they each try to swallow someone with their predatory orifice. Whoever wins gets a meal. This could conceivably lead to one UBing or AVing a fellow assistant along with the intended meal, so they are quite careful. Tempting though a double meal sounds, someone would have to take over the ingested assistant's work duties and none of them are hungry enough to pay for it with double shifts.
Other staff
Tiguaak: a male polar bear who works as the "front four reindeer" as penance for eating Dasher, Prancer, Comet and Rudolph a few Christmases back. Tiguaak, like a lot of local bears, is as smart as a human and can talk, but he is otherwise an ordinary bear.
The big feral bear isn't a huge fan of this job but he -is- a fan of the fact that a number of Santa's followers have the hots for their boss but don't want to get eaten by Mrs. Binky or one of the assistants. This probably wouldn't happen due to the open relationships involved but then there's the worry that fraternizing with the boss would make their friends jealous. Tiguaak, like Adak, is The Next Best Thing. He may not like pulling the sleigh but he does approve of the daily blowjobs, handjobs, and various orifices people want him to fuck.
While Tiguaak prefers his asshole to be exit only he will lick a pussy or a cock equally willingly as long as he gets some action too. He will fuck a mouth or whatever orifice is offered no matter what it is attached to. He just wants to get his rocks off and he is not picky about how it happens. You might say he's a bi-polar bear.
Being as big and strong as Binky but entirely feral he is not as dexterous as his boss. As a result Binky has had to tell him to be careful with the elves and other small lovers. There were some regrettable incidents early on and even now he occasionally sends a lover to the infirmary due to an excess of enthusiasm and the size differences involved.
The reindeer: only four of the original eight are left thanks to Tiguaak but they are pampered and lead a good life. They are at least semi-intelligent and three of the four are male. Since this would put a lot of stress on one doe surrounded by three healthy bulls, it's a good thing that there are a number of people at the workshop who think reindeer look pretty good. They are routinely exercised, groomed, well fed, massaged, and have their pick or male or female lovers. None of the four have any complaints.
The elves: several hundred elves live at the Pole, most of whom didn't approve of Santa Claus disappearing down the gullet of a bear that became their new boss. Fortunately Binky turned out to be a good boss who often treats them better than Claus did. (The all-expenses-paid vacations to warmer climes for outstanding performers after the holiday season are a new thing, for one. )
The elf majordomo, Tiddles, outranks everyone at the Pole other than Mr. and Mrs. Binky. He has been there for at least a thousand years and can tell you firsthand why there are (or were) eight tiny reindeer, because he knows Sleipnir personally. Claus was not the first Santa, after all. It's a long story and you have to get him pretty drunk to hear it.
Mr. Tiddles happens to be flamboyantly gay and has the hots for Binky, but sadly Binky prefers women. The elf has to satisfy himself with Tiguaak and, now that he's old enough to be interested, Adak. One of these days they are going to get a little too into their regular elf spitroasts and accidentally break him. Fortunately the North Pole has an excellent health plan that has managed to correct the funny walk a thick black polar bear pole gave him shortly after Tiguaak showed up.
Other workers: besides the elves some 50-100 other workers live here, depending on the season. A few are human but most are various sorts of anthropomorphic animals. The North Pole is a bit of a fuckfest when the workers aren't too busy and these furries happily join in for the most part. Most of the human workers are cooks, for whatever reason.
Health plan: magical healers among the elves can patch up most injuries that aren't immediately fatal in minutes. They also ward Santa with dozens of protective spells whenever he is at the slightest risk, because they just got this new boss broken in and they don't want to have to through that again any time soon.
They cannot on the other hand de-digest someone who has been eaten so certain of the more predatory staff members should be approached with caution. The sexual vore preds like Mrs. Binky particularly, as she gets so into things that she tends to only realize something bad has happened when her pussy burps. Pretending to offer yourself as a meal (which may dressing yourself up as a present given the sort of gifts Binky gives predators at Christmas) is also a bad idea as many locals will take you up on it. The fact they later say "Oops" doesn't correct the fact that things are awfully hot and wet where you are and all you can hear is this gurgling noise.
Santa Binky can bring people back from the dead or even make multiple copies of a person, but these are very rarely used abilities. Only Binky (and maybe Chugiak and definitely Tiddles) understand all the rules and restrictions that come with his powers, but some restrictions definitely exist.
The small folk
A number of martens, squirrels, mice and weasels act as messengers within the workshop, running through various sizes of tubes that connect the many rooms while carrying a rolled up message in wooden capsule. The squirrels and mice have their own blocked-off section of the network due to problems with weasel or marten predatory reflexes. All these little folk are very careful around larger creatures lest they be stepped or snapped up by instinct. Their services are much appreciated by Binky (and Clauses before him) and they are rewarded with long life and health. The drawback is they can neither have nor sire children as long as they are on the premises and most eventually leave. Some have worked here for centuries, though, and have become functionally immortal, even to the point of being durable enough to pass entirely through a predator unharmed.
The local wildlife
The predators in the area around the workshop are well aware that Binky will give them delicious presents around the shortest day of the year and so most of them cause no trouble for the workshop lest they not get a gift-wrapped treat. Even small predators share the wealth and the tied-up school shooter being skeletonized by a hundred ravenous weasels can only dream of dying as peacefully as the bank robber that dolphin over there is swallowing.
The time around Christmas is a sort of festival for the wildlife and many go there during the short days of the year throughout their lives. Immediately after Christmas there is a truce of a few days while the predators are digesting their gifts and much interspecies hanky-panky takes place between various wild animals, the staff, and even some humans invited to the North Pole for the occasion.
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Not actually located either at the north pole nor at North Pole, Alaska, but rather at an unspecified snowy magical location, this workshop complex supports Santa's yearly flight around the world and his distribution of gifts.
Besides producing gifts and allowing the compilation of the Naughty and Nice lists via its vast network of magical information sources, the North Pole is also home to Santa, his assistants and family, his reindeer, and a large group of elves and other workers.
Santa and his family
Santa Binky: A polar bear who ate Santa Claus and discovered when he burped that There Must Always Be A Santa. He was compelled to assume the role and now Santa is a ten-and-a-half-foot-tall, semi-anthropomorphic polar bear who besides distributing gifts is known for eating people who are far enough down the Naughty List and also visiting with "interested" women during his Christmas Eve flight.
Santa only visits with women, despite many males who express an interest. Even Santa is not perfect and has his own inclinations. He sometimes provides a suitable substitute such as Tiguaak (see below.)
Santa Binky has the power to stretch or compress time on Christmas Eve, a necessary power if one is to visit millions of houses in one night. He can also eat and drink any amount on that night. Santa Claus used this ability to tuck away countless saucers of cookies and glasses of milk left out for him. Binky eats those, and, being a polar bear, also the worst offenders from the Naughty List. How this power works no one is certain, as Binky eats much more than his body weight in offenders in one night yet returns to the Pole no fatter than before.
One theory is he stores them in an extradimensional stomach, similar to his gift bags, and digests them bit by bit. By all rights he eats a whole year's worth of food in one night, yet he eats other things throughout the year too. When he swallows a single person they make their way through his digestive tract in a normal polar bear-ey way but there is no sign of what would reasonably happen if he digested fifty people over the course of a day or so. What happens to them? Where do they go? "Magic," he'll growl if asked, and smile a toothy grin.
He is known to eat people with his sheath or cock, converting people to cum or magically ejaculating them (intact) down the throat of someone giving him a blowjob. Santa Binky works in mysterious ways.
Santa Binky has an innate sense of virtue, a magical ability to rate someone's niceness or naughtiness even from a distance. He uses this skill to edit the Naughty and Nice lists and to judge whether someone should receive a gift, receive nothing, or end up inside a polar bear.
As it seemed greedy to him to eat all the offenders himself, though he easily could, he restricts himself to fifty or so and gives the rest as presents to his predatory wife, assistants, workers or Good List animals who live nearby. Some are gifted to Nice List people who are also given the one-time ability to swallow and digest them. This most often happens to bullies of various sorts, who end up as meals for their victims.
As far as Santa is concerned, a simple animal cannot end up on the Naughty or Nice list no matter what it does. Only when sapience and society is in play is their level of morality judged. A normal bear who eats a human is not Naughty. An intelligent bear who breaks an agreement and eats his neighbors is, though. This keeps a lot of extremely predatory creatures in circulation but it's not Santa's business if a badger somehow manages to trap and gulp down a human. Even intelligent animals can stay off the list if they are simply behaving according to their nature and not violating the rules of society - and if they lack a society, they cannot violate its rules.
Other animals who are potentially naughty are outside Santa's prey range. That cannibalistic right whale probably qualifies and so does a certain colossal leopard seal, but Binky believes in a hands on approach and being too big to swallow turns out to be an excellent defense. Plus, Santa is not invincible and the staff dreads the idea of ending up with a half-million-ton Santa Selene should the seal eat him.
Less severe offenders may receive other punishments, such as being beaten black and blue by gentle taps of a fifteen hundred pound polar bear's paws as a lesson to not take their anger out on the wife or kids. Binky does not eat heads of state or similarly prominent individuals as this might start wars or disrupt the gentleman's agreement that lets states and powers look the other way as hundreds of people vanish down various gullets around Christmas.
One thing that will absolutely get you eaten is impersonating Santa to further your predatory ends, or blaming a death on Binky by claiming the victim was a Naughty List denizen. Binky does not approve of these things at all and he will do something about it, albeit with care as the senior elves have advised him that this is a known way to try to lure a Santa into a trap. This is one of the times that he may take a hands-off approach and use someone else to deal with the offender - a prime opportunity for someone the killer has offended to get the one time ability to eat their nemesis.
Santa and his wife do not age and are supernaturally tough, but not indestructible. The previous Santa was digested by a normal polar bear, after all. Their children and Santa's assistants are mortal, but like the elves, very long lived.
Mrs. Binky: Chugiak was a perfectly normal non-intelligent polar bear sow happened by the North Pole after Binky took over. Binky has to use magical means to fuck smaller lovers in many cases (it's not just chimneys he can fit into, so to speak) but Chugiak wasn't one of those and he enthusiastically mounted the very willing bear sow. They discovered together that There Must Always Be A Mrs. Claus. She assumed the semi-anthro look and intelligence of her husband and they were soon officially married.
Chugiak is named after a mountain range near Anchorage and the joke at the north pole is that "Only Binky can climb that mountain." In fact she allows others to do so, but its is best done carefully as she sometimes sucks lovers into her purple polar bear snatch, where they are digested. No one is quite sure why a Mrs. Claus needs this ability but one otter worker with an acid proof wet suit (a Christmas present from Binky, naturally) has taken the opportunity to "visit" with Chugiak, his suit allowing him to be spat out of her carnivorous pussy undigested.
Despite the predatory qualities of her sex which should by all rights digest Santa's semen, she has borne him two sons.
Adak: The older son, he is seven feet of mostly-grown polar bear and old enough to be interested in women. This Christmas he asked to "visit" with one of Santa's assistants and while Binky told him he couldn't order his assistant to sleep with his son, the assistant happily did it anyway. Like Tiguaak (see below) he benefits from being around various elves and other creatures that have the hots for Binky but don't want to annoy Binky's other lovers. It is a good place to be a horny polar bear.
Lusty and shortsighted, Binky has had to remind him that he's not actually allowed to rape his Naughty List Christmas presents. He's just supposed to eat them.
Halu: The younger son, only about five feet tall and too young to share Adak's interests. He is quite pudgy for a polar bear and is known to swallow and digest prey larger than he is. Adak thinks with his dick, Halu with his stomach, and like Adak he has to be told that even Santa's sons have to follow some rules. "Don't eat the elves," for example.
Santa's Assistants
Four ladies, two from nearby and two from distant lands. All were Binky's lovers before he assumed his current role, which goes to show that nepotism is alive and well at the North Pole. They are still his lovers, but they also do a lot of work supervising various elf teams.
Each is capable of swallowing and digesting same-size prey and each was given a second predatory ability by Binky for Christmas several years back.
Llewella: an arctic fox whose fur is always white. She did not like her "blue" summer color phase and simply stopped color changing with the seasons. Llewella dresses in light green with tassels. Several years back Binky gifted each assistant with a new ability and Llewella became an unbirth pred like Mrs. Binky, though she prefers to use her mouth. It is probably not a coincidence that the "Suck and swallow" effect of her predatory sex makes it more fun for Santa to fuck her. He's big enough that he doesn't have to worry about being sucked in.
Florimel/Flora: a melanistic (black) jaguaress. Habitually wears a dark green outfit with mistletoe both on her tail-root and on the end of her tail. She uses this to get people to kiss her furry pussy, which would be a charming habit if she too weren't an UB pred. Quite a few people have gone in for a kiss only to be sucked in and digested. Like Llewella, her womb acts as a second stomach and prey gets out of her body the same way whether it goes in via her mouth or pussy, via the pink star under her tail.
(It is not known whether the two unbirth pred assistants can have children. When this ability manifests in nature it almost always precludes pregnancy as semen is digested instead of impregnating them. There are exceptions to this and their abilities are magical, so perhaps we'll find out one of these days.)
Deirdre: a skunkette with a great brush of fluffy tail. Wears a red outfit with many bows on her tail. Deirdre's tail is predatory and can eat people two ways. Wrapping people up in the fur can digest them, with the bones spat out for Mirelle (see below) to crunch up. Alternately, the fur can bunch up around someone and swallow them, sending them somehow into Deidre's stomach. Unlike some tail preds she has full control over it and can use its prehensile fur to provide tailjobs, potentially to multiple males at once or to one very large one.
(There's a sperm whale bull who stops by the inlet by the workshop from time to time, for example. He has more than once turned the skunkette's black fur white and sticky from her nose to her tailtip.)
Mirelle: youngest and least senior of Binky's assistants, this wolverine wears a simple red leather harness which doesn't cover very much at all. She has a love of anal sex and well before Binky became Santa she took his formidable pole up the ass. Her new ability was, of course, anal vore. Besides sucking whole people into her ass and digesting them this also makes her a more entertaining lover for Binky due to the muscular suction action.
(Arguably, all four assistants got new abilities that made them more interesting lovers. Binky thinks of himself sometimes. He's allowed to do that.)
She was the assistant that Adak wanted to "visit with" this Christmas because he correctly guessed what it would feel like to sodomize her. Binky was careful to ask her beforehand, "Please don't suck my son into your asshole", even though Adak is probably too big to fit. Probably.
The three "lower hole" pred assistants sometimes play a tug of war game in which they each try to swallow someone with their predatory orifice. Whoever wins gets a meal. This could conceivably lead to one UBing or AVing a fellow assistant along with the intended meal, so they are quite careful. Tempting though a double meal sounds, someone would have to take over the ingested assistant's work duties and none of them are hungry enough to pay for it with double shifts.
Other staff
Tiguaak: a male polar bear who works as the "front four reindeer" as penance for eating Dasher, Prancer, Comet and Rudolph a few Christmases back. Tiguaak, like a lot of local bears, is as smart as a human and can talk, but he is otherwise an ordinary bear.
The big feral bear isn't a huge fan of this job but he -is- a fan of the fact that a number of Santa's followers have the hots for their boss but don't want to get eaten by Mrs. Binky or one of the assistants. This probably wouldn't happen due to the open relationships involved but then there's the worry that fraternizing with the boss would make their friends jealous. Tiguaak, like Adak, is The Next Best Thing. He may not like pulling the sleigh but he does approve of the daily blowjobs, handjobs, and various orifices people want him to fuck.
While Tiguaak prefers his asshole to be exit only he will lick a pussy or a cock equally willingly as long as he gets some action too. He will fuck a mouth or whatever orifice is offered no matter what it is attached to. He just wants to get his rocks off and he is not picky about how it happens. You might say he's a bi-polar bear.
Being as big and strong as Binky but entirely feral he is not as dexterous as his boss. As a result Binky has had to tell him to be careful with the elves and other small lovers. There were some regrettable incidents early on and even now he occasionally sends a lover to the infirmary due to an excess of enthusiasm and the size differences involved.
The reindeer: only four of the original eight are left thanks to Tiguaak but they are pampered and lead a good life. They are at least semi-intelligent and three of the four are male. Since this would put a lot of stress on one doe surrounded by three healthy bulls, it's a good thing that there are a number of people at the workshop who think reindeer look pretty good. They are routinely exercised, groomed, well fed, massaged, and have their pick or male or female lovers. None of the four have any complaints.
The elves: several hundred elves live at the Pole, most of whom didn't approve of Santa Claus disappearing down the gullet of a bear that became their new boss. Fortunately Binky turned out to be a good boss who often treats them better than Claus did. (The all-expenses-paid vacations to warmer climes for outstanding performers after the holiday season are a new thing, for one. )
The elf majordomo, Tiddles, outranks everyone at the Pole other than Mr. and Mrs. Binky. He has been there for at least a thousand years and can tell you firsthand why there are (or were) eight tiny reindeer, because he knows Sleipnir personally. Claus was not the first Santa, after all. It's a long story and you have to get him pretty drunk to hear it.
Mr. Tiddles happens to be flamboyantly gay and has the hots for Binky, but sadly Binky prefers women. The elf has to satisfy himself with Tiguaak and, now that he's old enough to be interested, Adak. One of these days they are going to get a little too into their regular elf spitroasts and accidentally break him. Fortunately the North Pole has an excellent health plan that has managed to correct the funny walk a thick black polar bear pole gave him shortly after Tiguaak showed up.
Other workers: besides the elves some 50-100 other workers live here, depending on the season. A few are human but most are various sorts of anthropomorphic animals. The North Pole is a bit of a fuckfest when the workers aren't too busy and these furries happily join in for the most part. Most of the human workers are cooks, for whatever reason.
Health plan: magical healers among the elves can patch up most injuries that aren't immediately fatal in minutes. They also ward Santa with dozens of protective spells whenever he is at the slightest risk, because they just got this new boss broken in and they don't want to have to through that again any time soon.
They cannot on the other hand de-digest someone who has been eaten so certain of the more predatory staff members should be approached with caution. The sexual vore preds like Mrs. Binky particularly, as she gets so into things that she tends to only realize something bad has happened when her pussy burps. Pretending to offer yourself as a meal (which may dressing yourself up as a present given the sort of gifts Binky gives predators at Christmas) is also a bad idea as many locals will take you up on it. The fact they later say "Oops" doesn't correct the fact that things are awfully hot and wet where you are and all you can hear is this gurgling noise.
Santa Binky can bring people back from the dead or even make multiple copies of a person, but these are very rarely used abilities. Only Binky (and maybe Chugiak and definitely Tiddles) understand all the rules and restrictions that come with his powers, but some restrictions definitely exist.
The small folk
A number of martens, squirrels, mice and weasels act as messengers within the workshop, running through various sizes of tubes that connect the many rooms while carrying a rolled up message in wooden capsule. The squirrels and mice have their own blocked-off section of the network due to problems with weasel or marten predatory reflexes. All these little folk are very careful around larger creatures lest they be stepped or snapped up by instinct. Their services are much appreciated by Binky (and Clauses before him) and they are rewarded with long life and health. The drawback is they can neither have nor sire children as long as they are on the premises and most eventually leave. Some have worked here for centuries, though, and have become functionally immortal, even to the point of being durable enough to pass entirely through a predator unharmed.
The local wildlife
The predators in the area around the workshop are well aware that Binky will give them delicious presents around the shortest day of the year and so most of them cause no trouble for the workshop lest they not get a gift-wrapped treat. Even small predators share the wealth and the tied-up school shooter being skeletonized by a hundred ravenous weasels can only dream of dying as peacefully as the bank robber that dolphin over there is swallowing.
The time around Christmas is a sort of festival for the wildlife and many go there during the short days of the year throughout their lives. Immediately after Christmas there is a truce of a few days while the predators are digesting their gifts and much interspecies hanky-panky takes place between various wild animals, the staff, and even some humans invited to the North Pole for the occasion.
Still ate Rudolph, though.