DEAD, dead, dead, someday you'll be dead...

[tencrush]

Just a brief interlude from my big FANON project, as I've been asked by several people to explain my reasoning as to why I believe Ianto's family are DEAD. Now, I've been told if I hadn't included "Welsh" as such a hilarious option in my fanon poll, or at least made it slightly less lolworthy, a lot more people would have probably voted for "Ianto's family are DEAD", so I take it a lot of you are with me on this one. I'll put forth my reasons, if I've forgotten any or anyone has any more hints and clues that Ianto's family are dead, let me know in the comments.

My reasonings:

• Ianto's dad is obviously dead. Evidence the first: His extreme sentimentality about his experiences at the Electro, Ianto's a local boy, you'd figure his family was more or less local as well and if this cinema holds such great memories, you'd think he'd have TAKEN HIS DAD and NOT OWEN AND GWEN. Because Ianto is 25, what would his dad be, 50? It's not like his father would be some decrepid 85-year-old man, surely? His dad's dead.
• Reason the second his Dad's dead: The master tailor thing. His dad WAS a master tailor, past tense. Again, figuring how old his dad would be now, it's highly unlikely his dad would have retired already, and besides, "master tailor", it's one of those professions that has the same ring to it as "actor" or "nuclear physicist", it's one of those things you just ARE, whether you're IN WORK or not. His dad's obviously dead.
• Now let's figure his dad's dead, and his mum's alive. Oh... sads, yes? Not the kind of situation that would lead someone to become a drifter at age 19 and eventually MOVE TO LONDON. Especially not someone who obviously clings to those he loves to the extent that he does. His moving to London tells me that he obviously has few ties in Cardiff, you'd figure if he had a poor lonely mother there he would have stayed.


• The bio Jack hurls at thim, again, doesn't mention a family. It mentions he has a girlfriend, but nothing else. The girlfriend really would seem to be the ONLY THING Ianto has or had in the way of loved ones (that kind of explains as well his EXTREME RELUCTANCE to let her go, he's always struck me, and everyone, as quite an intelligent guy, yet he refuses to let Lisa go, in spite of everything he's seen at Canary Wharf. That fact alone tells me that Lisa really is ALL HE HAS IN THE WORLD.)
• In all of 26 episodes, generally, no mention is ever made of Ianto going to see his family, or even of living a life outside the Hub. That in itself is pretty weird, but if you take into consideration the fact that Ianto is a LOCAL BOY and if he had family, that family would be PRETTY NEARBY, it gets extra special weird.
• And then there's the boy in From Out of the Rain. People always make these jokes about Ianto crying a lot, but that's NOT ACTUALLY TRUE. Ianto's emotionally very reserved and he's obviously someone who bottles things up until they become too much, that's how he deals with things. And things only become too much and come pouring out when circumstances or situations REALLY BREAK HIM DOWN. We saw him cry in Cyberwoman, because he was BROKEN about his DEAD GIRLFRIEND. We saw him cry in Adam, because he was BROKEN about being a murderer, and we saw him cry in Fragments, because he was BROKEN about prostituting himself for the job and all the other things that broke him in that scene that have been discussed to death already. Apart from those highly emotional instances, we've only ever seen him cry at one other thing: The boy in the hospital in FootR, who LOSES HIS ENTIRE FAMILY AND ENDS UP ALONE. Now why did THAT particular thing affect him so badly, eh? Eh? Oh, that's right, yeah: IANTO IS THE BOY.

Just my two cents, folks. I will return you to your regularly scheduled fanon project shortly. talk amongst yourselves.