application | babylonwood
We are the prisoners of circumstance and consequence.
We are the generation sacrificed in self-defense.
The storm is coming in the aftermath of war --
Now can you tell me what it is we're fighting for?
The Player
User Name/Nick: Corie
User LJ: broken_lullaby
AIM/IM: suited badass @ AIM
E-mail: wickedxtwilight@gmail.com
Other Characters: N/A
The Character
Character Name: Ianto Jones
Character Journal: ihasastopwatch
Canon: Torchwood
Age: 25
From When?: Children of Earth: Day 4 - Ianto follows Jack into the room to confront the 456, so literally minutes before his death.
Abilities/Powers: While lacking in any abilities of the supernatural sort, Ianto is quite a proficient worker, logical thinker and good at improving plans and/or weapons when a dire situation may call for it. And working for Torchwood, this is quite often. He is organized and crafty, hence his managing to hide a Cyberwoman in the basement and tracking down Jack to get a job and such.
Oh, and he makes a mean cup of coffee or tea and looks good in a suit.
Power Limitations: None, and none. Unless there is coffee to be made.
Inventory :
Clothing: Black dress pants, silver waistcoat over a long sleeve white button up.
Weaponry: Torchwood standard issue firearm, and his pride and joy - a stun gun.
Personal: wallet containing money, credit cards, Torchwood ID, and family pictures.
Other: Keyring containing keys to the tourist office, his home, car, various cupboards, storage units and the SUV. Which is gone. A silver stopwatch. Cell phone.
Personality:
Ianto at first glance may come off as ordinary, someone much older than his twenty-five years in his bland exterior and well pressed suits. He may seem a butler, office boy, not someone out there, wielding a gun and helping to save the world from aliens. Yet that is his job, and has been for some time.
When he first joined Torchwood Three (after manipulating his way in in the first place through stalking, and basically throwing himself both literally and figuratively at Captain Jack Harkness for the job), he was silent, seemingly shocked after the tragic events of Canary Wharf. He simply blended in the background, appearing only when needed for cleaning or making coffee and disappearing to clean, or tend to his Cybernetic girlfriend who he refused to believe was already gone until it was far too late. While he may have hid himself from the others, nobody had ever seen him truly until that point because he can blend into the background when he wants to. His true emotions are always well hidden behind this same cool exterior or witty retort. It is safe to say that nobody really knows the true Ianto Jones, he did after all lie about his family life growing up, choosing to tell Jack that he grew up son of a master tailor. Out of shame, out of the fact that he was not close to his father growing up (pushed too hard, Ianto will say in the later series, in more ways than one).
Ianto has very little life beyond Torchwood. Because of the fact that it's not exactly a nine to five job, it leaves him with very little free time and whatever other time he has is probably spent with Jack. It also puts a serious damper on his relationship with his sister, which was already strained since he left for London after their father's death. It became more so after he began working for Torchwood in efforts to keep both family and work seperate but it also means that he doesn't see them beyond holidays or an occasional birthday, or have lots of contact with them a lot of the time. As for any other friends or acquaintances, well he doesn't have any.
After the final death of Lisa, he faked it. Pretended like he was coping when he wasn't. Ianto prefers to hide his emotions under a facade, a sharp wit, quick sarcasm and his seemingly always un-phased attitude in many dire situations, which, in Torchwood is quite often. It wasn't until after the second death of a fellow employee, and over her dead body did he finally reestablish a relationship (purely physical, no strings attached) with Jack. His relationship with Jack is a big deal, very often is it described or taken at face value as "part time shagging", however despite knowing that Jack would not commit to him, Ianto allows himself to fall for the Captain, okay with only being "a blip in time" in the immortal's life. After that point, he continues to put himself out more, even sticking up against Owen and shooting him in order to keep him from doing something very stupid such as, opening the Rift.
Ianto is also the organized one of the team. Dogsbody, all around jack of trades - cleans, makes coffee, RetCons (memory erases) witnesses, drives the team, dumbs bodies, handles paperwork, cares for the pets and keeps the Hub and it's inhabitants from getting too out of control. He's clever and crafty - he did manage to sneak in his half cyberised girlfriend with next to no suspicion from the others, after all. Don't let the unassuming butler persona fool you, because he does have his James Bond moments. Oh, did I mention he looks good in a suit? Because he does. Like a certain other secret agent...
While his first, second and even third betrayals may say otherwise, Ianto is a very loyal person. He betrayed Jack and the team's trust because of his loyalty to his girlfriend and belief that she was the one who had been wronged by Torchwood and believed that the others should have seen it that same way. The second time, because he felt that opening the Rift would be the only way to stop the end of the world and the third because he felt that Jack setting Gwen down when she needed to know was the wrong way of handling so he took initiative and gave her the GPS that would lead her to discover the island of Flat Holm. It is also safe to say that even though Jack can't die, that Ianto would die for him, in a heart beat because while he can't die he can still feel pain and get hurt. Ianto has lost enough, lived through too much for someone so young. He knows and accepts that he will not live a long or full life, but is content to go down fighting and saving the world. He could very well long for a regular life or relationship, but Torchwood, has given him meaning.
Jack has given him meaning. While not everything is perfect, while he has still lived a lot for someone so very young and seen many a things that most people can only dream, and lost many friends to Torchwood, while he can still hide constant feelings of guilt, sorrow and uselessness he excepts this with the good that this life has brought him.
Despite a relationship with Jack, he does not consider himself a gay man, because Jack is Jack and to call himself that would mean putting a label on what they have and Jack has made him no promises, save for a couple of dates, close moments, hot steamy moments, and soul barring conversations, and really - he's fine with that.
History:
Ianto Jones, was born and raised in Cardiff - the second and youngest child of his family. His father was a shop keep and they were poor, but not exactly poverty stricken. His relationship with his dad was complicated from the start, he'd pushed him off a swing at the age of nine, breaking his leg. Ianto would later say, he always pushed him too hard and he resented him for it. They weren't close, and as all teenagers would - Ianto rebelled. He got caught shoplifting in his teens, smoked, drank and did things that most teens convinced that nobody understood them did. He got decent marks in school, but never really tried.
There is no information on his mother, but it is assumed that she was ill and died when he was young. At about the age of eighteen, following the death of his father and a fight with his sister directly after the funeral, he fled to London to seek his fortunes elsewhere. Of course, Ianto spent most of the time going from job to job, drifting about London with no real purpose before he got into Torchwood. The London branch needed researchers, and Ianto fit the bill. Young, impressionable, easy to mold into their ways. It was a short time after beginning there he met a girl, Lisa Hallet. Smart, beautiful and funny. They began dating, going camping on weekends off, couple-y things. And for a while, everything was okay. New, exciting job, friends, and a beautiful girlfriend who he loved very much.
Of course, everything went to Hell in a handbasket when the ghost shifts that Torchwood One had discovered turned out to be an army of Cybermen. And then, to top things off - the Daleks came via an object they had found, and the two waged war in the building. Over 800 people were in the office that day, only 27 survived. The rest, dead, converted or missing. Ianto was one of survivors, but it had been close. Lisa, was not so lucky. She had been in the Cyber converter (the Cybermen had brought a way to make their army even bigger - converting human bodies into Cybermen) when the Doctor managed to stop them, leaving her partially converted. Ianto grabbed her and fled the wreckage, hid her in an old warehouse.
Now the problem, what to do? Sneak her into Torchwood Three seemed the obvious answer - they had technology that he could use to find a way to save her, so after months of research on the base, he followed it's leader a one Captain Jack Harkness, and fought off a Weevil trying to get his attention. When that didn't work, he approached him with a cup of coffee and asked him for a job. It was unsuccessful. Of course, with the help of a Rift detection device he'd nicked from One, he tracked down a pteranodon. Jack showed up, and they managed to catch it, and Jack hired him on the spot.
During his first few weeks at Three, after managing to sneak Lisa and all of her equipment down into one of the abandoned rooms down below, Ianto kept to himself. The others barely noticed. He did paperwork, cleaned up after his coworkers, ran the cover up office, made coffee, tended to Jack and the Archives and Lisa. It went like that for a while, until he managed to find a Japanese specialist, familiar with the Cybermen. When the others went out to the pub, he invited the man into the Hub - and with his help they were able to get Lisa breathing without the machinery.
It turned into a bloodbath. Lisa wasn't herself anymore, and she tried to convert the man, thus killing him. She got lose, nearly killed Gwen, Jack was furious (and rightly so) and told Ianto if he didn't kill her, then he'd kill them both. The cyberwoman, sustained some damage - implanted her brain into a young pizza woman who was so unfortunately delivering the team their pizza. She didn't make it, and the others killed Lisa. However, for whatever reason, he didn't know - Jack let him stay alive, no retcon, no executing - just a month's suspension. After his return, he kept on the fringes of the team still, mostly still grieving silently to himself. It wasn't till a later incident - did Ianto finally start to come out more around the others, making jokes, and even going as far to proposition Jack for the first time since before the Lisa incident. Thus beginning their purely physical relationship.
When Jack and Tosh are taken by the Rift sometime later, Owen - still upset about the loss of a girl he'd met from the past that had gotten sucked into it, became determined to open it to get them back. The two fought, Ianto even shooting the doctor in the shoulder, however he still managed to open it allowing their teammates to return. Of course, the opening of the Rift was not a good idea, after all. Things started happening, all over. It looked like the end, and the team were tricked once again into thinking the only way to stop it was to open the Rift, Ianto visited by a vision of Lisa. Maybe they had to do it. Owen shot Jack and took the opportunity to open it once again. Jack didn't die, though. And it turned out, all they did was release something even worse upon the world.
Jack sacrificed himself to stop it, and died. Stayed dead for three days. Gwen kissed him, he came back to life. And disappeared while Ianto, Owen and Tosh popped out for coffee.
With Jack gone, it meant them being one man down. Gwen took control of the team, and the four of them worked together to make up for that lack of leadership. During this time, Ianto started to work out in the field as well as his other duties. This lasted until on a routine call and a chase with an alien blowfish, Jack returned. He was different, Ianto noticed. And even went as far as to ask Ianto out on a date, which he awkwardly accepted (in his defense, they were in the middle of something).
During the course of the season, Ianto continues to play a more active role in the team, going on missions and whatnot. His relationship with Jack continues, if he certainly weren't in love before Jack left - he probably is now.
Of course, when Gwen stumbles onto something that she wasn't supposed to know (a young man taken by the Rift, and she wants to find out what happened to him, and give closure to his mother), and refuses to drop it, no matter what Jack says - he takes action and leads her to the island of Flat Holm, where Jack has those who were taken, and brought back different - sick, or hurt or unable to be around people because of whatever happened to them. It ends up blowing up her face, but he had reasons for showing her. Jack couldn't shelter them forever.
After the death of Tosh and (second death of) Owen, it's down to the three of them, rebuilding the city, and carrying on. Months pass, they work on finding a new medic, Ianto begins to feel insecure about his relationship with Jack - and then something happens: the children stop. All of them, all over the world. It's bad, very bad - even worse when it turns out that someone wants Jack and the team out of the way - tries to blow them up via bomb implanted in Jack's stomach. Ianto at first refuses to leave, but after a searing kiss, Jack sends him and Gwen off and they escape just as it blows up.
Jack being unable to die, comes back and is taken by a woman dressed in some leather getup, part of the same organization that tried to kill them. Ianto escapes, manages to evade until getting in contact with his sister, and taking off to find out where they had taken Jack. Together, with the help of Gwen and Rhys, they manage to free their leader from his cement prison, and find shelter in London in an old Torchwood One warehouse. They scam and con their way to getting the necessities, and with the help of Gwen's mole in Thames, they're able to find out the plan of the 456. Jack's past with the aliens come out... it's shocking to Gwen and to Ianto, but he has a plan on how to stop these guys.
So, Ianto follows Jack to Thames House to confront the aliens...
First Person Sample:
[Loooong silence before a heavily accented male voice speaks.]
So either Jack and Gwen redecorated while I popped out for lunch, and if that is the case then this is a bit much - even for you, Jack - or this is... not The Hub. Really going out on a limb here, but I'm guessing it's not even Cardiff anymore. [Deadpanned.]
[Sigh. Well. He'd always imagined that being sucked in by the Rift included a large of flash of light, shaking ground, and roaring wind. Color him disappointed. Except he's more disappointed that it actually happened. To him, of all people. Isn't he supposed to be prepared for this sort of thing?]
Assuming I'm not talking to myself, and this is some sort of communication device, if anyone knows a Captain Jack Harkness or a Gwen Cooper, or if either of you can hear this, speak up. I think -- the Rift --
[cuts himself off right there, because he'd rather not spill that info until he knows where he is and who's listening]
And if anyone out there can tell me where I am, that would be very much appreciated as well.
Prose Sample:
this ever on going thread
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