Well, Christmas is fast approaching. One of the 'Seasonal/Festive Classics' is by a man called Charles Dickens. The book? 'A Christmas Carol'.

No, not the songs traditionally sung at this time of year, but a tale of redemption.

Summary of plot copy-pasted from wikipedia: "A Christmas Carol is a Victorian morality tale of an old and bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who undergoes a profound experience of redemption over the course of one night, which if it doesn't change his ways he will end up like his friend Jacob Marley, walking the Earth forever, being nothing but invisible and lonely. Mr. Scrooge is a financier/money-changer who has devoted his life to the accumulation of wealth. He holds anything other than money in contempt, including friendship, love and the Christmas season."

Well, I thought it would be a fun little thing to jump to tektek and well...avatarise the characters.

By the way, if you haven't read it, I highly recommend it. (Not that that's saying much)

You can easily join in without reading the book though, just wiki the characters.

So...

Main characters

Ebenezer Scrooge - Before and after redemption versions.

Bob Cratchit - Scrooge's Clerk, also Tiny Tim's father.

Fred - Scrooge's nephew and Fan's son.

Tiny Tim - Son of Bob.

Jacob Marley - the ghost of Scrooge's dead business partner.

Ghost of Christmas Past - fairly self-explanatory.

The Ghost of Christmas Present - also self-evident.

The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come - quite obvious


Supporting characters

Two portly gentlemen collecting donations for "some slight provision for the poor and destitute" at Christmas - the name says it all.

Fezziwig -Mr. Fezziwig is the proprieter of a warehouse business for whom Ebenezer Scrooge worked as an apprentice; and in Stave 2 of The Christmas Carol, has a Christmas ball, where Scrooge meets his love of his life, Belle. The character is a happy man with a large Welsh Wig. Old Fezziwig liked to dance to "Sir Roger de Coverly", a lively tune of the 1800's.

Fan - Scrooge's sister and Fred's mother.

Belle

Mrs. Cratchit

Peter Cratchit

Martha Cratchit

Belinda Cratchit

Two unnamed "smaller Cratchits", a boy and a girl

A young boy and girl, Ignorance and Want, respectively

d**k Wilkins

A trio of thieves who plunder Scrooge's house after his death:

Scrooge's unnamed charwoman, who sells (among other things) his bed curtains and the shirt he was originally meant to be buried in (she took it off his dead body

Mrs. Dilber, Scrooge's laundress

An unnamed undertaker's assistant

Old Joe, a fence who buys the dead Scrooge's belongings from the trio of thieves.