#taskmaster au

Taskmaster NZ is a father and son where the father knows the son is a loser but does his best to support him anyway.

Monty

he is so overconfident it goes from being hilarious to being kind of sad and pitiful but in a funny way

keeps trying to bribe alex

also keeps cheating at every task

sometimes its even on purpose

theres at least one task that takes everybody else 5-10 minutes and takes monty an hour

he would win a lot of prize tasks just for his ability to sell whatever it is he brought

everyone else with their antique/painstakingly handcrafted/expensive prizes vs. monty with his bag of gummy worms that he bought at a gas station while he was driving to the studio, and monty gets the full 5 points

he was really really hoping to get put on a team with charles but no such luck. he's paired with bevan

for the tasks he will be dressed to the nines in a full 2-piece suit no matter how impractical it is

and it is incredibly impractical

Jean

ania magliano but on steroids basically

just. so incredibly intense about this whole game

she will physically fight alex and/or greg if she has to

or if she doesnt have to

she is the shortest one here and the youngest one here and she is full of righteous fury

she is here to either win or kill everyone else and become the new taskmaster. nobody is sure which one it is

the most absurd unhinged prize tasks you have ever seen. just absolute batshit insanity. there is no corner of her soul or her wallet or her free time that she will not turn over to the world for points

she reads the task once and only once and if she misread or misinterpreted any part of it thats a problem for future jean, not her

has a swiss army knife, a keychain flashlight, a set of lock picks, and some fishing line in her pockets just in case

always correctly predicts when the tasks have second parts, never prepares herself in any way for the second part

yelling. just so so so much yelling

she never talks at a normal volume

during the team tasks she just starts screaming at her teammates almost immediately

Hester

definitely uses the prize tasks to unload some random things she doesnt use anymore

at no point in the entire series does she ever outwardly panic during a task

she also does not shout

the worst thing she does is tell alex "that was quite rude" while radiating a kind of quiet fury that has ended civilizations

refuses to wear anything that looks silly or eat anything weird no matter how many points it could get her

the task could literally just be to put on a hat shaped like a hamburger and automatically get 10 points, and she would politely decline and offer the hat to alex to wear instead

she does not apologize for breaking things

in fact it seems like she might even enjoy breaking things

but she always cleans it up afterwards no matter how much it adds to her time

on a team with jean and charles and she is the only thing keeping that team together

jean gets intense and panicky and starts making mistakes and charles keeps wandering off and hester is stuck trying to get them both in the same place so they can actually do the task correctly

Charles

he does not like the idea that he is being Perceived by people watching television but he does like solving puzzles

except when he's being timed

being timed makes him have a nervous breakdown

hes very competitive and genuinely wants to win but he doesnt really show it

he never has the Rage that the rest of the competitors have

he has pure unfiltered anxiety or intense focus, nothing in between

although he occasionally gets completely distracted from the task if he sees a bug

also if a task requires him to talk to a stranger he will lose every single time

theres at least one task that he just casually completes without even thinking about it while he infodumps about fish

if he sees a loophole in a task he asks for permission before he exploits the loophole

keeps forgetting that the point of team tasks is to do the task together so he just wanders off to do the task by himself, leaving jean and hester to find him and drag him back so he can help them

half their final time for team tasks is time they had to spend wrangling charles

Bevan

he had never heard of taskmaster before being invited

he wants to win taskmaster more than anything else in the world

he also hates taskmaster so so so much

its a fun combination

hes genuinely giving it his all in every task but he cant predict any of the twists and ends up screwing himself over every single time

he starts out very calm and composed and slowly descends into an undying rage the likes of which has never been seen before or since

for the last few tasks hes just muttering under his breath "this is better than going to war, this is better than going to war, this is better than going to war"

(in my head bevan is a veteran no matter what universe hes in and that includes taskmaster)

he and monty do not win a single team task

literally not even one

if they are required to get along and not yell at each other they will fail spectacularly