operation mincemeat but they're on taskmaster
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
if they are required to get along and not yell at each other they will fail spectacularly
alex has to break up a literal fistfight at one point
