December 25 - Olive

In Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, the line goes, "All of the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names," but in fact it wasn't all of the other reindeer, it was just one: Olive.
Olive the other reindeer.
Of course there wasn't just one other reindeer. In the mid-1950s there were hundreds of reindeer on the North Pole. Thousands. But two of them were different. One of them was Rudolph. The other one was Olive.
Rudolph had a red nose.
Olive's was green.
And both of them glowed.
But it was Rudolph who got all the attention, and it wasn't just because of his nose. He lettered in three different reindeer games, excelled in all his classes, and was just an all around nice reindeer.
Everyone was always going on about how great Rudolph was, and it drove Olive crazy. In fact, she was the first individual to be green with envy. The expression comes from her and her green nose
But it soon went from simple envy to an irrational need to destroy Rudolph. Thus, the names she used to call him: commie, pinko, comrade, Rudolph the Red. This was at the height of Cold War anti-communist hysteria, and not even the North Pole was safe from McCarthyist witch hunts.
But fortunately for Rudolph, everyone saw through Olive's ploy to tarnish his good name. All that communist nonsense was just that: nonsense. Nobody paid it any mind.
And so when the fog set in on that fateful Christmas Eve, it was a no brainer that Rudolph would guide the sleigh. Of course his glowing red nose would be indispensable in that weather. But on top of that, out of all the reindeer he was the best leader, the ablest navigator, and the sharpest aviator. None of the other reindeer were even close.
Even still, Rudolph, ever the magnanimous reindeer, lobbied hard to get Olive a spot on the team, figuring nothing would shout Merry Christmas more brilliantly than the sight of Santa's sleigh being guided by a glowing green nose and a glowing red nose.
But Olive wouldn't have it. She spent that Christmas Eve alone in her stable, taking out her frustrations on sugar cookies and salt licks while Rudolph saved Christmas and flew his way into the history books.
Years later, when the time came to document that Christmas Eve in song, Olive threatened to sue the songwriters for libel if they used her name. That's how Olive the other reindeer became all of the other reindeer.