Post by Ianto Jones on Feb 28, 2010 11:41:10 GMT -5
IANTO JONES
HEY THERE! my name is lynda and i'm 35 years old.
i'm a wiminz and i've been roleplaying for never, I just write but I‘m willing to learn years.
I'm puppetmaster of none here on SIT, but enough about
me, here's my character. =]
nicknames: Tea-boy, though that may earn you a stern look.
age: 26
religion: Christian
affiliation: Torchwood Three
sexuality: Bi-sexual
species: Human
marital status: It’s complicated.
member title: Archivist; Operative; General Support
playby: Gareth David-Lloyd
canon or original: canon
hometown: Newport, Wales
current residence:441 Heol-y-Gwent, Cathays, Wales
parents:
Anna Jones (nee: Evans)
Daffyd Jones - Deceased
siblings:
Rhiannon Davies (nee: Jones)
brief history: Ianto was born on 19 August 1983. He grew up on a council estate in Newport, Wales. His father worked for Debenhams and his mother, after a long battle, was placed in hospital suffering from schizophrenia. His sister, Rhiannon, practically raised him. Ianto doesn’t have too many good memories of his father. He points out to Rhiannon how his father had pushed him too hard on the swings causing him to break his leg. Rhiannon apparently doesn’t remember their father being so hard on Ianto. Ianto felt his father pushed him too hard and that is probably why he rebelled. When he was fifteen he was caught nicking clothes from a store called Top Man in Newport. He got four weeks for being lippy with the judge. His father beat the fire out of him, but he deserved it.
Shortly after his father’s death, he went off to Uni. Rhiannon had always believed that Ianto was just waiting for their father to die so he could leave. He was an exceptionally gifted student and took on a series of temporary jobs after graduating. He was hired as a temp for HC Clements, which was, at the time, a front for the Torchwood Institute in London. He was quickly hired on as a Junior Researcher.
Shortly after he started working there he became enamoured with the HR Assistant, Lisa Hallett. The pair quickly became a couple and were inseparable.
The Battle of Canary Wharf was devastating. Cybermen and Daleks were at war inside Torchwood Tower, taking human life. When the Cybermen realized they needed bodies quickly, they began converting onto human flesh instead of transplanting the brains. They took Lisa from him. He was one of 27 survivors of the battle. Ianto found the partially converted Lisa and hid her away hoping that one day he would be able to ‘cure’ her of her affliction.
Ianto moved back to Wales and began actively pursuing a position within Torchwood Three. He needed their Hub to maintain Lisa’s conversion unit and used his coffee and his discovery of a pteranodon, Myfanwy, to finally get his foot in the door.
Seven months later, with the help of Dr. Ryoichi Tanizaki, he attempted to ‘cure’ Lisa of her cyber ailment. Unfortunately, this only resulted in Dr. Tanizaki’s death and the death of Annie Bennett, the young pizza girl he often spoke with, at the hands of Lisa. Lisa was also eventually killed by Jack Harkness, Gwen Cooper, Toshiko Sato and Owen Harper, as Ianto couldn’t bring himself to do it. He was subsequently placed on temporary suspension.
During his suspension, Jack would come and visit him. Ianto grudgingly began to appreciate the company. After his suspension was over, he was allowed back to work. Ianto, for a while after the incident with Lisa, felt that he was only good enough to clean up after the team but not actually a part of the team. Jack began to show him affections but as Owen had bluntly pointed out, and he subsequently denied, he was only Jack’s part-time shag.
After Jack disappeared, Gwen had given him a more active duty within the team to fill the space created by Jack’s leaving. He took on a more field agent role while still keeping them in coffee and organizing the archives. When Jack returned, he remained in this position as well as the relationship between the pair began to blossom, slowly.
Ianto Jones believes he knows more about the Hub and Torchwood than anyone, possibly even Jack.
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Jack
Coffee
Myfanwy
Gwen
Jubilee Pizza
Order
Facts
Details
Wales
ABBA
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (relates to Remus Lupin)
Suits
The colour red
Jack’s RAF Greatcoat
The Stopwatch Jack gave him
Time alone with Jack
Weevil Hunting
dislikes:
Ianto doesn’t dislike the Doctor, but he is wary of him. After all, Ianto knows Jack has deep feelings for the Time Lord which also conflicts with his Torchwood Institute training. He knows the Time Lord is not the enemy but that doesn’t change the fact that he doesn’t fully trust him. He does dislike the idea that he will die young. It is an inevitability that comes with working for Torchwood but that doesn’t change the fact that one day he will die and Jack will go on and will probably forget him. He also, some days, dislikes his feelings he has for Jack.
strengths:
Ianto is witty and very clever. He also sees things from a different angle sometimes and that often causes his team mates to work through a situation that had been difficult earlier. He has an almost intuitive way when it comes to taking care of his team, keeping them in coffee and food sometimes before it is even requested.
weaknesses:
Emotionally, Ianto is weak. He craves love and yet is sometimes too afraid to pursue it for fear of being hurt. He loved his father, his father hurt him. He loved his mother, she was ill and practically abandoned him. Lisa died and now Jack…Jack is complicated and when Ianto feels like they’ve made a breakthrough in their relationship, Jack holds him at arms length and Ianto feels like he is being placed under a microscope, analyzed and observed. He knows he has deep feelings for Jack but also knows very little of what the other man feels for him.
secrets:
Ianto Jones has a tattoo on his left shoulder. It is a Welsh dragon. Jack has seen it but never comments on it. He got it when he was at Uni. Also, when he has had a good day and is feeling a bit silly, he likes to stand in front of the mirror and pretend to be James Bond.
fears:
Ianto is afraid of dying young and alone. He knows it is inevitable but he knows he has so much work to do and so much to give to the Universe in general. He isn’t ready to go.
habits:
He has a habit of knowing when Jack wants his RAF greatcoat. He also has a habit of reading everything in the archives. If something sits for too long in the Hub, he will categorize it and find a location for the item.
overall personality:
Ianto Jones is a soft spoken Welshman with above average intelligence. He loves to read and is a bit of a James Bond buff. (Connery is the best, hands-down, in his opinion.) Ianto is also emotionally confused. He has feelings for a man, which is not something he would have dreamed in a million years, yet he has been with women. Being bi-sexual is not the best of both worlds, as some would like to think. To Ianto, being bi-sexual is not the best of both worlds because he feels he doesn’t really belong anywhere. He feels that he cannot trust anyone, their motives or their intentions. Because of that, he feels, that in a world that likes its shiny labels, he has no true identity.
He is loyal, though. His loyalty was clear when he defended Lisa to the bitter end and when the team had betrayed Jack, he himself included, he was the only one to run to Jack’s side when Owen shot him. He would defend Jack till his dying day. If Jack were to leave Torchwood, Ianto would follow. Jack gave him purpose that went beyond anything he had ever known.
Ianto is also witty. His dry humour sometimes falls on deaf ears and often Jack doesn’t get it. Some see it as sarcasm, which at times, it is, but often it is just his odd, quirky humour.
Ianto also likes ABBA. Something he rarely shares with anyone but if the conversation came up, he would state that he believes that the song ‘One Of Us’ may be the best song written about relationship break-ups and he has a soft spot for the fusion of witty lyrical content and poptastic dancibility of ‘Voulez-Vous’, but he would make it absolutely clear that he bloody loathes ‘Dancing Queen’.
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Ianto walked through his flat. He was barefoot and the floorboards were freezing his feet. He didn’t care. After the events of two days ago, he was numb.
The young man threw himself onto the sofa and curled into a ball. The pain was still so fresh and when he closed his eyes he could still see the images, the smells. The smells were the worst part. He could remember them, the decaying flesh and the odour of corpses as they hung from the ceiling. He didn’t think he’d ever eat meat again.
Then there was the pain. His body was covered in bruises and cuts. Owen had given him something to help, and it did, unfortunately, when he moved the wrong way or hit the bloody fridge door with his hip, like he always did, stars would explode behind his eyes. The idea of going into work was another pain. He didn’t want to put on a suit and yet, he surely couldn’t go in wearing track pants and a tee-shirt. Though, he suspected, Jack wouldn’t mind.
The people of Brynblaidd were something Ianto couldn’t believe actually existed. This was something coming from a man who had seen aliens and lived through Canary Wharf. To believe that humans could do something so horrid, so disgusting to so many people without so much as batting an eye, well, that was scarier than looking down the plunger of a Dalek.
Ianto lay on the couch, staring blankly at the dark screen on the telly. He couldn’t watch it and see the horrors that were going on around the world and he couldn’t stand to watch anything ‘entertaining’ either. He just stared blankly, hoping that this time, if he fell asleep, he wouldn’t dream.
Unfortunately, his mobile chose that moment to ring. With much effort, he reached over and looked at the display. A small smile lifted the corners of his mouth.
Ianto hit the ‘accept’ button and said, “Hello, Jack.” Pause. “Of course. You do still have your key?” Pause. “Yes, but… Jack, no meat, please?”
He rang off and placed the phone back on the table. Jack was coming over and perhaps he would help him forget the nightmares, or at least exhaust him into not caring.
credits! template by MOLLIVER ! @ Caution 2.0.
lyrics are from "one more time" by the epically awesome daft punk.
