Post by savage on Aug 4, 2010 15:13:21 GMT -5
Torchwood Files
~IANTO -- JONES!!
~IANTO -- JONES!!
"It's the button on the top."
The File Jacket
Name: Ianto Jones
Nickname(s): Yan, Teaboy
Age: 26
Sexuality: Jack-sexual
Profession: Torchwood Administration / Teaboy
Race: Human
Canon?: Yes
PRETTY FACES
Regeneration Cycle: --
Eyes: Medium Blue
Hair: short cropped dark brown
Height: 5"10'
Weight: 160 LBS
Any outstanding features?: overly expressive eyebrows, broad forehead, naturally frown on face, unusually furrowed brow when concentrating really hard. terrible ‘sadface’ expressions.
Appearance: X . x
Ianto is normally seen wearing a nice, well-fitted suit. When we first met him, he wore plainer colors, single-colored ties and had little to do with opening up to everyone else. But as it progressed, he opened up a little to them, and changed his wardrobe. Now he wears bright colored undershirts and ties that have way more life to them than they did before. And (though rarely outside the comforts of his home) Ianto is sometimes spotted wearing jeans and casual t-shirts. He always has a necklace (though usually hidden under his clothes) that was a present from his mother. There is also a watch on his wrist that is fairly nice. Silver, stylist. Tells the correct time and has a pleasant sound. Sometimes, though not always, Ianto has a gun in his pocket. Often times however, he forgets it somewhere since he really doesn’t enjoy using a gun.
Without the clothes, Ianto is still incredibly handsome. He has short-cropped dark drown hair and pretty blue eyes that are often tinged with sadness. He has defined cheekbones that bring out his smile. Though he lacks a particularly good “sad face”, he makes it up for being really cute. Slim, but not overly slim, Ianto seems to be in the perfect state of health. He doesn’t appear to work out, but since his job does require that he runs quite often, he keeps fit.
Hello THeRE
Likes:
- Stopwatches
- Jack
- Coffee
- Cleaning
- Dark chocolate
- Order
- Being busy
- Knowing everything
- Writing in his
diaryjournal - Being a part of the team
- Meeting people
- Cataloging, or archiving
- Making perfect coffee
- Being useful
- Watching TV
- James Bond
- Driving
- Making up cover stories
- Being in the loop
- Naked Hide and Seek
- Taking care of the Weevils
- Confiding in Janet
- Take out
- 51st Century Pheromones
- Cats
- Measuring tapes
- The color red
- Knowing what people want before they do
Dislikes:
- Captain John Hart
- Not knowing something
- Bad coffee
- When Jack talks about former relationships
- Talking about Lisa
- Being overlooked because he makes coffee
- People knowing more than he does
- Desperate Housewives
- Commercials
- Mis-matched outfits
- Being left alone
- Being overly relied upon
- Sweet n' Sour Pork
- Being called “queer” or “gay”
- Seeing his teammates hurt
- Being hurt
- Standing up for himself
- Being ignored
- Being invisible
- Butter
- Ice cream
- Pollen
Fears:
- Losing Jack
- Losing his mind
- Being alone
- Being an outsider
- Making bad coffee
- Not being useful
- Forgetting
- What he’s going to do when Jack leaves
- Killing people (for pleasure)
- Losing/ other people reading his diary
Weaknesses:
- Timid
- Not very good with a gun
- Tends to get jealous easily
- Pansy
- Doesn't like fighting
- Emotional
- Falls in love too easily
- Bad judge of character
- Keeps girlfriends in basements
- Secretive
- Quiet
Strengths:
- Makes great coffee
- Takes detailed notes
- Excellent memory
- Patience
- Attention to detail
- Anticipatory of others needs
- Butler
- Witty
- Calm
- Knows everything
- Slow to anger (mostly)
- Intelligent
- Loyal
- Welsh
Any secrets?: Knows just about everything about Torchwood that is documented.
PERSONALITY:
Ianto is a relaxed individual who appears open and willing to help everyone with what they need. He can be a solid rock to help them through their problems, or a helper in some wild experiment. Often he is taken for granted (which DOES irk him, but he tries not to show it) by the rest of the team and other people in general. Yet he does nothing to stop them from thinking these sorts of thoughts about him. He has a few personal hobbies that he takes extreme pride in (like archiving and going to concerts when he can). If Gwen is the Heart of Torchwood, and Jack is the Leader, Ianto is the anchor/glue that keeps them all grounded and together through thick and thin.
While Ianto doesn't generally bellow out at the top of his lungs what he likes and dislikes, he often demonstrates his affection for someone by throwing himself into it and taking pleasure at compliments. Most obviously seen by his passion and seeming gift for making the world's greatest coffee, and being able to (without measuring) correctly give Gwen the proper sized wedding dress as during her alien pregnancy. Another is the way he dresses, neatly, business like. Formal. By taking time to dress formally, he shows that he really loves what he does, not to mention his OCD for things being tidy and neat. He has a quite way about him that makes people both calm, and a little worried.
In relationships, Mr. Jones really puts himself out on the line. For his first real girlfriend, Lisa, who was sadly taken and semi-converted into a cybermen. He hid her away in one of the basements of Torchwood desperately looking for a way to help her return to being fully human. He showed an inability to think her willfully doing evil deeds, and despite his hatred for Jack when the Captain ordered the firing of his girlfriend, he got over it relatively quickly (on the outside). He soon attached himself to Jack, finding purpose for himself once more in the stable shadow of Jack Harkness, though he is faithful, he understands that Jack has to have a fling with everything that has a post code, he still gets jealous -- especially when old flames come back to try and take his love away.
Ianto also doesn’t kid himself about Jack. He knows that one day Jack will just simply up and leave him. No questions, no complaints. He’ll just go. Because that’s how Jack is; no fuss. It’ll break Ianto’s heart, but he knows that Jack can’t hang around forever; the man has to move on. Although, the probability of this actually happening is rather slim since no one in Torchwood lives to see their pension. So it’s a grim outcome.
The one thing that can always manage to get Ianto’s goat is whenever someone makes a comment on him being gay, or queer. Since Ianto doesn’t see himself like that at all. In his own words, “It’s Jack, it’s… different. It’s not about two men being together it’s something so much more.” Which brings up the question whether Ianto is really ‘bisexual’ or just ‘straight with jacksexual preferences’.
His personal favorite hobby is writing in his diary about events that happen. In one case this proved to be the only way they discovered the impostor memory alien Adam. Ianto's attention to detail is exploited here as he tends to write down everything from the temperature of the Hub to the exact shade of blue (or gray-blue) the sky outside is. When not busy with assignments from Jack or the cleaning up after the rest of the team, he is down in the vaults converting all the paper archives onto the computers for easy, up-to-speed access that even Jack should be able to handle.
A very large part of Ianto's job at the Hub is taking care of the team. Making sure they have food, drink, supplies and maintaining as much of a comfortable atmosphere to work in as he can possibly achieve. Small things, like making sure Jack's greatcoat is always clean and ready for running action to calling for pizza when the team is working late night shifts or pulling an all-nighter. His biggest job, and greatest pleasure, is to make sure that everyone has their favorite cup of hot drink ready for them first thing in the morning and at first yawn near sunset. Aside from that he usually just keeps the work areas clean, disposes of bodies and whatever other jobs the team needs to have done.
Ianto has an uncanny sense of when someone needs something. Often he'll appear with just the thing the person was searching for (which is why he's the "tour guide" head for Torchwood). He also maintains order and finds compromises for power-struggle situations. Ianto is often found with a book on, or at hand about something random (from space to weed growth), it is his personal goal to know everything and eventually surpass the Doctor for knowledge (an unattainable goal, yes, but fun to strive for).
Despite maintaining the appearance of being open to anything and everything, Ianto is actually quite closed off. In recent years he has begun opening himself up to the rest of the team (mostly Jack), but it's a hard habit to break. Given that he's the quietest member of the Torchwood team, it's easy to over look him and his problems because he never voices them. His best-kept secret was Lisa, hiding her cleverly away, knowing (sadly, yes) that the rest of the group would never think to ask him anything about his personal life, assuming it was all in his Torchwood profile (which most of it is). It does amuse him however when they "discover" something "new" about it.
BACKGROUND:
Mother:
- Dead, age 86
FATHER:
- Dead, age 84
OTHER FAMILY:
- Rhiannon Evans; Younger sister
Johnny Evans; Brother-in-law
1 nephew and 1 niece
HISTORY:
The oldest of two children, Ianto Jones was definitely a "starter-child". His parents were, however, competent child-raisers and raised him fairly and with a great deal of fun. When his sister was born, Ianto took turns helping his parents raise Rhiannon. Unlike a few first borns, he didn't see his younger sibling as a rival, he saw her as a way to pay his parents back. Both the children would go to school and then come back to their father's workshop or the public library where their mother worked. From these two places, Ianto's love for reading and measuring things came into play. Along with his attention to detail, often Ianto would help his father out in the shop if there was a sudden flood of people wanting to get outfits done (usually for dances).
Since a young age, Ianto’s only goal in life was to work in a library. There was something spectacular about working in a place like that. But his Father, given that Ianto was far brighter than most youngsters, had far grander plans for his first born. He wanted Ianto to grow up to be a banker, or a politician. Someone important. So whenever he had the chance, he pushed Ianto. For example, they were at the playground one day when Ianto was little, and his Dad pushed him a little to hard on the swings, the result? Young Ianto broke his leg. Sadly, that was not the end of it. They would later part on unhappy terms after Ianto finished high school.
School life for Ianto was easy, being smart, and willing to go for the gold in all things. He was honor roll, and took hard classes. After high school we went off to college in London. There he studied a wide range of things and graduated with well above the normal credits one needed. At about age twenty Ianto Jones was approached to join the company he'd been wanting to join; Canary Warf. Once there he met the beautiful Lisa and the two hit it off right away. Ianto sadly became distant to his schoolmates and former friends since his job required the utmost secrecy. Feeling lost and a little sad at the distance, he confided into Lisa -- which was the start of their budding relationship.
During this time, both Ianto’s mother and father passed away. Both deaths struck Ianto really hard, but he didn’t show it. He kept himself closed up, and abandoned the rest of his blood family and threw himself into both work, and his relationship with Lisa. It was Lisa who helped him start to open up, soon she knew just about everything about Ianto. His secret desire to have a cat, or a flat, all by himself. His dislike of ice cream. How he actually loved hard rock and not just the classical she’d always heard him listening to. Everything. It was perfect.
At least it was, until the Cybermen came through the void. While Ianto wasn't in the fighting, his girlfriend Lisa was captured by the cybermen and partially converted. In a haze of red Ianto dragged his half robotic, half human lover out of Canary Warf before it was destroyed. Bitter at what had happened, he'd kept Lisa in his home, making errands to the destroyed site to salvage parts of a conversion unit. Extensive reading on medical procedures gave him enough knowledge to hook up a basic life-support unit. Lisa was barely still alive and Ianto knew time was running out for her. He would have to either find the Doctor (whoever that was), someone who could convert his love back to human, or join a place similar to Torchwood London.
As luck would have it, Ianto moved back to Cardiff and was struck by the realization that there WAS another Torchwood; Torchwood Cardiff. Desperate to get help for Lisa, Ianto laid siege to Captain Jack Harkness, becoming almost stalker-ish. Giving the captain a cup of his perfectly brewed coffee, offering to clean his greatcoat, commenting on the greatcoat -- and turning up where he was generally unwanted. Though he did once save Jack from a Weevil by smacking it with a two-by-four beam, or a very large branch. It was dark, he really didn't know. Eventually he stood in front of Jack's SUV, the angry Captain stormed out and confronted him, declaring that if he was still there when Jack was behind the wheel he was going to run Ianto over.
"But what about the pterodactyl, sir?" Ianto had asked as innocently as he could, knowing that Jack would be instantly interested in the dinosaur. Sure enough Ianto Jones found himself leading the way to a large warehouse. There he partitioned Jack again and bated the Pterodactyl with dark chocolate, Jack was picked up by the gigantic creature and dropped on Ianto. A steamy moment, Ianto rolled off Jack and stood up. The dinosaur was starting to feel the effects of the drug Jack had stabbed it with. Ianto had turned to leave when Jack told him to report for duty the next day. An overjoyed Ianto smiled at him and nodded.
"And this is Ianto Jones. Ianto cleans up after us and gets us everywhere on time."
"I try my best."
"And he looks good in a suit."
"Careful, that's harassment sir."
"I try my best."
"And he looks good in a suit."
"Careful, that's harassment sir."
So Ianto Jones came to be the head of the tour guide front for Torchwood. He took on the responsibilities of handling the public, dry cleaning, disposing of bodies, and ordering take out. His job title was basically "public relations" with a "archiver" underneath. Ianto snuck his part-cyberwomen girlfriend Lisa into Torchwood and hid her away in the basements. Under the guise of "cataloging" everything he tried to find a way to convert her back to being human. However, Lisa broke free and killed two people before Ianto was discovered by the rest of the team. Instantly he was an enemy. He tried to protect Lisa up until the point she turned on him and knocked him unconscious. Revived by Jack, Ianto was still reluctant to aid them.
They had a new person join the team; Gwen Cooper. When Suzie when suddenly crazy and killed herself, Gwen replaced her. Now, back to Lisa.
A very furious Jack wanted to kill Ianto, but since Ianto was a part of his team and only acting out of a desperate sort of love, he understood – though he didn’t approve of it in the least. He knew what had to be done though, what the cybermen could do if they replenished themselves once again. It terrified Jack, which terrified Ianto and made them turn on each other. Ianto remained adamant that he wasn’t going to hurt Lisa and went mad when they sic’d the dinosaur on her and escaped above ground. Ianto turned angrily on Jack and punched him.
"You're worse than anything locked up down there! One day, I'll have the chance to save you, and I'll watch you suffer and die."
As the team evacuated the building, Ianto broke free and charged as fast as he could back inside. Unfortunately Jack caught him, held him at gunpoint and growled for him to choose which side he was one. Then the Captain put a gun in his hand and coldly told him to finish Lisa off. Ianto, still unwilling to kill his girlfriend, ventured back into the Hub. He walked into the conversion room and to his horror saw that Lisa had hijacked the body of the innocent pizza delivery girl. With tears in his eyes over what he'd/she’d done, he pointed his gun at the monster, but was saved firing it when Jack, Owen, Tosh and Gwen opened fire instead. He mourned her loss privately, coming to work the next day with grief in his heart.
Eventually Ianto managed to get over it by attaching himself to Jack -- ironic that Jack was the one who ordered her death. Perhaps he sought forgiveness from Jack for going against his boss's will. Perhaps not. Either way, Ianto Jones eventually became a sort of boyfriend for Jack, as evident when making comments about measuring tapes, stopwatches and the kiss he and Jack blatantly shared after saving the world from Bilis's demon. When Jack vanished Ianto nearly went crazy with grief once more, but with the help of the others he re-gained control over himself and actually started to be able to walk on his own without help. However, when Jack returned, Ianto had to know what their relationship was -- a kiss was the first part of sealing the deal. He wanted to be sure, and if there was one topic that Jack could avoid at all costs, it was the topic of ‘relationships’.
Then, there is trouble in paradise, one certain Captain John Hart came through the Rift -- and snogged his boyfriend. Ianto Jones was seriously angry. After being called "eyecandy" by the strangely handsome pirate-esk "captain" and threatened with a guy he firmly decided that he didn't like this other American-accented Time Agent, though he did find him quite attractive in the same sort of way that Jack was attractive. Ianto hates admitting that Jack had other relationships aside from him, but he is forced to accept them. There was one very happy Ianto when John Hart left through the Rift.
During a run in with Adam -- a being only capable of living by putting himself into others memories -- Ianto was the one who discovered that all was not as it seemed. Adam, finding out, punished Ianto by making him "remember" killing three innocent women -- and enjoying it. Jack, blindly faithful in his team, swore that Ianto was not, and could not be a killer. He put Ianto through the best lie detector in the world -- and when it came up true, he rejected it. Searching back through the archives they uncovered Adam's plot, and confronted him about it. After taking a pill of recon, Ianto doesn't remember it anymore save for dim, frightened memories of something he wanted/needed to forget.
When he met Martha Jones, Ianto was suspicious of the two having had a short fling. But he was put at ease when she told him that Jack had asked her for a UNIT red beret. Ianto liked Martha, and since she seemed to have some sort of history with Jack, he wanted to find out. But he was sadly robbed of this when Owen took a shot for her. It ended his life and when they brought him back, confused Ianto. Ianto was suspicious of Owen since what had happened to Suzie the last time they had brought someone back to life. But since nothing really bad happened (other than Death coming, but that was normal.), he accepted it.
There was one incident at the Electro, with circus performers coming out of the screen and stealing the last breaths of several people. Sadly, they only saved one life. And it was the life of a small boy, but it was a beautiful thing to save. Oh, and there was also this other time when Gwen walked in on him and Jack, that was terrible. Horribly embarrassing, but it brought about the question of what Ianto meant to Jack. Jack never answered.
Ianto now goes out on more missions in the field, though nothing serious happens to him, he does get almost blown up (courtesy Captain John Hart). He meets Jack's brother, Gray. When Jack came to save them Ianto went weak with joy, almost tackling his lover while still trying to maintain some form of dignity. Ianto wasn't afraid to cry when Tosh and Owen died. He grieved with Gwen and Jack, but they managed to carry on through it all.
Some of the things that have happened to Ianto; Turned Invisible, Turned into a Women, Became deathly sick, Shot, Killed (in an alt. universe sort of thing) and the list goes on.
"Exterminate. Exterminate."
"No. Oh no."
"What is it, who are they? Do you know them Jack?"
"There's nothing I can do. I'm sorry, we're dead."
"No. Oh no."
"What is it, who are they? Do you know them Jack?"
"There's nothing I can do. I'm sorry, we're dead."
Several months later things had just settled down when suddenly the planets shifted location and Jack went to find the Doctor, leaving a terrified Ianto and Gwen to deal with an unknown enemy. A Dalek comes crashing into the Hub minutes after Jack departs via Vortex Manipulator, Ianto and Gwen shoot for their lives and find that all the bullets have stopped -- and so has the Dalek. Ianto discovers that shortly before her death Toshiko Sato finished her Time Lock project, sealing the entire Hub off -- thus protecting Ianto and Gwen. The two combined forces with Sarah Jane and Martha Jones to bring the Doctor home to save the world. When the Time Lock goes away, and the Dalek is gone once more, Ianto and Gwen anxiously wait for Jack to come back. When he does, it is to their incredible joy. But then they have to repair the Hub. Again.
And now with the cut-back team, he knows that Ianto has to do all he can to help Jack recruit new members.
ACTOR/ACTRESS USED: Gareth David-lloyd
POST RP EXAMPLE:sample comes from a How to Train Your Dragon roleplay on Subeta.
Waking up was always the hardest part of the day for Ev. He actually hated waking up from his dreams of walking and running with his own two legs, only to wake and find that his knees were tight with pain and burned if he attempted to walk with them on his own. He sighed dejectedly and looked over at the one thing that made his everyday life worth living, Excare lifted his brutish and rather ugly head up and turned towards where he heard the boy rustling about on the bed next top him. The dragon was just as large as the bed, and if Ev's parents didn't insist upon it, he would be sleeping on his best friend instead of in his bed.
Rolling himself over, he stroked down the middle of the Skullion's back, letting the sightless dragon know that he was about to roll over onto him and mount up. Appropriately, the dragon rolled, exposing the bit of neck that he had that wasn't covered in large spikes that threatened to put holes in anything that attempted to ride on his back. Carefully, Evelar swung his leg over the scaly back and settled his leg into the strap to hold it securely. After fixing the same for both legs, he looked at his handiwork. Both his legs were double wrapped in sheepskin to keep them warm out in the town. He patted Excare's right side delicately with his foot and the dragon rolled to his feet smoothly.
Without thinking much about it, Ev asked the dragon to head to the kitchen (which was easy to find as there was the smell of sheep cooking on the stove. They headed out (Ev ducking to make sure he didn't do something stupid like brain himself on the doorjams), and came out into the kitchen. Luckily, Excare was so used to the routine that he sat down next to the table and reached his lion-like head down and feasted on the warmed (but not cooked) sheep meat. Ev looked at his parents and felt a swell of joy in his chest. They were such tolerant Vikings, loving and wanting to look after their son the best they could despite his
deformities. "Mornin' Mother." He said cheerfully, and smiled at the welcome in return and the food placed down before him. This would have seemed odd for any other Viking home, usually they all ate in the Mead hall, however Evelar was sensitive about the piteous looks the other Vikings sent him as he rode in on Excare and struggled to sit down on the benches, so he had asked his mother how hard it would be to prepare his breakfast at home so he wouldn't have to see those looks (piteous or not)
After finishing up their meal, they headed outside were all the other children of Berk were awakening and tending to their dragons. Ev eased Excare as the dragon started to bristle at the scent of all the other dragons there, his white nails punctured the ground before Ev patted him on the neck, putting the dragon at as much ease as could be had. He whispered to the Skullion about how great he was compared to those 'winged bats' and that did more to soothe the dragon's ego than anything else. None the less, they headed out into the village, greeting people as they strolled by. Some tossed out a greeting and others backed away from the vicious appearance of Excare. The dragon did seen them, but was used to the scent of their fear. All he cared about was the boy riding upon his back.
He rumbled a sort of purr sound that indicated how happy he was, Ev smiled and stroked the Skullion in the spaces where the dragon's claws could not reach , and scratched roughly. Excare rumbled even louder at this and then yawned widely. His teeth were razor sharp, and though he'd never actually had proper reason to use them (unless he was hunting), the dragon still kept them in perfect condition, just in case. He was heading towards Hilde's house without really thinking about it until he caught sight of Ulfr and then Hilde when she turned with a smile on her face. He blushed a bright crimson and sat back, telling Excare to slow down. Of course, only after that did he realize that the dragon HAD already stopped, and that was due to smelling Ulfr. If there was something Excare HATED it was that marsh dragon. Keeping himself as civil as possible, Excare hissed quietly before looking in another direction, and catching scent of Toothless. The Skullion's claws pinned into the ground and it distracted Ev enough to know that if he didn't get Excare away from these winged dragons soon, there was going to be a rather nasty brawl.
"Um, later. I-I mean, goodbye." He said hesitantly, before turning on the dragon and loping off. He turned back a few meters from them and then sighed, he rubbed his legs ruefully before asking Excare to walk on into the forest, he had his drawing book in hand and there was a rock formation that he wanted to sketch somewhere near Raven's Point.
* THE face BEHIND the MASK!
Alias: Savage or Savvy
Age: 19
Gender: Female
RP Experience: 11+ years
Where did you find us?: Jack dragged me here. :>
Rules: absolutely. :] ... but I didn't find a password or code. D: