The [[Grinch Alliance]] is the name given to the alliance of the factions that participate in the planning of [[Operation Grinch]].

== Members ==
* [[XMAS]]
* [[TAX]]
* [[C.H.E.S.]]
* The [[Friendly Council]]

Operation Grinch

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[[Operation Grinch]] is the code name for a long-term operation plan devised jointly by [[XMAS]], [[C.H.E.S.]], [[TAX]], and the [[Friendly Council]]—collectively named the [[Grinch Alliance]]—with the sole and ultimate goal of killing the [[Chimney Man]].

== Background ==
When the Chimney Man [[The Man in the Chimney|reemerged]] in 1903, German archaeologist [[Martin Gruber]], who was present for His unsealing, would go on to found [[XMAS]] with the goal of eventually resealing Him. Martin was not delusional enough to think that they could destroy Him, as even the Friendly Council were unable to do so and chose to seal Him instead.

It was not until the [[December 1982 Massacre]], which claimed the lives of every XMAS operative other than Martin, that he first resolved to devise a plan to rid the world of His influence for good, for even if they managed to seal Him, it was surely only a matter of time until He would reemerge once more.

== Alliance ==
To that end, Martin reestablished XMAS in 2018. Instead of joining forces with certain government agencies like he had done before, which had proven rather ineffective in combatting the Chimney Man, he resolved to focus on quality rather than quantity and set out to assemble an alliance of extraordinary, or rather, [[extrafertile]], groups as well as individuals.

In 2022, he traveled to the German town of Wasserburg am Inn to [[Second Beer Brawl of 2022|recruit the ‘German Colossus’, Urtinger]].

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Captain Jacques Spereaux

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{{Biography|title1 = Jacques Spereaux|image1 = captain.jpg|caption1 = Spereaux with his Entangled Form, Crunch|name = Jacques Spereaux|birth = 1895|spouse = Amelia Earhart|children = Meet-The-Real-Son-Of-Amelia-Earhart Spereaux|career = Guano Piracy}}"Captain" Jacques Spereaux is a French-Mexican pirate with an [[Entangled Form]], a dog-type that he named Crunch. Headquartered in the semi-unclaimed island of Clipperton in the Pacific Ocean, he used its main natural resource, guano, and his ability to decrease the physical phenomenon of buoyancy, to engage in piracy in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

In 1940, he met Amelia Earhart, the pilot who went missing while attempting to fly over the Pacific Ocean. He offered her a service she could not refuse- a chance at beginning a new life. Their brief, unofficial "marriage" culminated in her assuming the identity of a New Jersey woman named Irene Craigmile Bolam, only after their one year relationship produced a child.

Trying to profit off budding conspiracy theories about the survival of Earhart, Spereaux didn't give his child a name, bringing him to vacation towns along the Gulf of California, in a tourist trap called "Meet The REAL Son Of Amelia Earhart!!!" After the initial hype of the theory wore off and the American and Mexican public became more concerned with World War 2, Spereaux had his son christened as [[Meet-The-Real-Son-Of-Amelia-Earhart Spereaux]], and sent him off to live in a Catholic Monastery in Durango under the tutelage of Father [[Eusebio Chanclas Borrador de Santa Ana]].

Spereaux continued his guano capers throughout the 20th century, being apparently genuinely confused as to why his aging process seemed to be so slow. After meddling with the diplomatic relations between Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia in 2018, he met a new adversary, a couple of [[False Reflection|False Reflections]] named [[Waffle Man]] and Woman of Beer.

In the [[Bougainville Mixup of 2024]], Spereaux successfully murdered Waffle Man in broad daylight, though he remained extant.

From there he negotiated with the [[Bean Boarders]] to gain access to the Panama Canal and began claiming various guano-coated Cays in the Caribbean. Eventually he set up shop on the island of [[Bimini]], where he quickly came into conflict with [[Marco Rubio]] and the [[Fountain of Youth]]. He joined forces with the keeper of the Bimini Healing Pool, [[Super Barbarossa]], to keep Rubio from accessing immortality.

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Martin Gruber

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{{Biography|
name = Martin Alois Maria Gruber|
birth = 13 March 1853|
death = Somehow not dead yet|
career = [[XMAS]]|
known_for = Founding XMAS
}}

[[Martin Gruber]] is an extrafertile German paranormal researcher and archaeologist; he witnessed the unsealing of the [[Chimney Man]] from the [[The Temple of Burong|Temple of Burong]], whereafter he founded [[XMAS]] in an attempt to capture and re-seal the Man in Red.

Despite multiple combat encounters with the Chimney Man or one of His avatars, Martin has somehow consistently managed to be rescued just in time, albeit usually only after everyone around him has perished. With this dubious ‘luck’ of his, he remains the only member of XMAS to have survived the 1982 massacre that gifted Super Death to every other active and former XMAS operative at the time.

== Ability ==
{{Ability
|title = Door of All Doors
|description = Grants control over the concepts of ‘opening’ and ‘closing’
|power = 8/10
|destructive_power = 6/10
|rarity = Very Rare
}}

Martin’s ability, '''Door of All Doors''', gives him control over ‘doors’. More specifically, it grants him the authority over the concepts of ‘opening’ and ‘closing’.

Apart from doors, he can also apply this to other things such as drawers, closets, containers, and even to some abstract concepts. In his later years, Martin learnt how to apply the concept of ‘closing’ to ''space itself'', which enables him to cross large distances instantly by ‘closing’ the distance between him and his destination.