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Aug. 23rd, 2012 07:18 pm☞ Player Information;
Name: corie
Player Journal:stopwatched
Age: 25.
Contact: plurk: paperflowers.
Other characters currently played at Ryan's Gulch: N/A.
☞ Character Information;
Character Name: Ianto Jones
Canon: Torchwood
OU or AU?: Original Universe
Canon point: The end of Children of Earth: Day One - after The Hub is blown up.
Setting: Torchwood takes place in modern day Wales, in the city of Cardiff. If it isn't raining, it likely will rain. While nothing may seem out of the ordinary to the untrained eye, there is a Rift in time and space that runs through the city which allows things - objects, people, and creatures to slip through and into this city. This is also the city that the Doctor will sometimes visit to refuel his TARDIS (his time travelling police box). The Torchwood agency was founded by Queen Elizabeth to protect people from alien threats, and of course the Doctor. Often, there are many an unexplained events that take place in Cardiff - weird deaths, large creatures that roam the streets and sewers, yet people are content to go on with their daily lives. Torchwood likes to think it is a great kept secret, but if you ask anyone where it is located, they'll point towards the bay.
History: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ianto_Jones
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, still 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. 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 really 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.
Abilities: Ianto, while possessing no actual abilities that are in any way super powered, Torchwood wonders if Ianto's coffee making skills, and complete and utter ability to clean even the worst messes is makes him an alien. Ianto is a proficient worker, has a great memory, and makes a mean cup of coffee. He is also somewhat of a skilled fighter (improving weapons, headbutting cannibals and a stun gun), can run for his life and sufficiently clean up any evidence of aliens/administering retcon (memory erasing drug), and dump bodies.
How did your character arrive in Rapture? Ianto will be arriving via teleport, given Torchwood Cardiff's Rift, he will believe that it is the force at work.
Why are you choosing to continue your character's development here from another RP? N/A
Network sample: I - hello?
[ ... quietly, more of an observation to himself: ] This doesn't look like Cardiff anymore.
Right. I'm either very concussed - or this is the work of the Rift. I honestly think I'd prefer the former, just in this case. But with current luck standing the way it is...
[Sigh, there's the sound of fumbling with something. He's still wary and alert, looking around for anything, but nothing looks familiar here. No stinking pile of rubble where the Hub had been. Just an unfamiliar city.] Jack, Gwen if either of you are there, and hearing this I'd appreciate knowing that you're having as much fun as I am. It's not every day we get the chance to travel to such exotic places for free.
[ Or at least, he'd appreciating knowing.. that they're you know, alive. ]
Log sample: The force of the blow knocks Ianto off his feet, there's fire at his back - the Hub is gone, nothing but a hole in the middle of the plass and Jack is still down there. Except that he's been blown to bits, the bomb had been implanted inside of him. There was nothing left of him, judging from the size of the explosion. Nothing but bits. Everything down there was gone, but to go back down there and stick around here would mean certain death, especially since the goons that had done the job would likely be showing up to make sure that the job had been finished and that Torchwood, for whatever reason they had to kill it's three remaining members was indeed gone.
It wasn't like they didn't have their fair share of enemies, but Ianto was willing to bet it had something to do with the children, and the way they had stopped so suddenly, all over the world, speaking in one voice. Shakily, in the rubble, Ianto stood. His ears rang and his ears buzzed, suit ruined and could feel cuts on his face and body - but he was okay, alive even. Gwen, he hoped had gotten out of the way safely (he'd have to congratulate her later, once the world was not ending). That would be his first move. To find Gwen, find Gwen and then contact Rhiannon and make sure she and the kids were okay.
They'd need to figure this out somehow -- he missed Tosh more and more, if anyone would be able to figure out how to solve this without all of their technology, it would be her. But no, here he was -- in the ruins of what had once been Torchwood Three, one pregnant woman was already on the run and if their leader was alive (could Jack survive getting blown up?), and there were people shooting at him.
Today was really not Ianto Jones' day. He took off running, listening to the sound of the bullets hitting the ground behind him but didn't stop. Not until he stopped, throwing himself behind a brick wall for a moment. He'd be foolish to believe he'd lost them, isn't that what they always do wrong in the bloody films? He pushed himself off of the wall, looking around ... this didn't look like anywhere in Cardiff... no, this wasn't Cardiff. Ianto knew his city and this was not it.
Shit.
Name: corie
Player Journal:
stopwatched Age: 25.
Contact: plurk: paperflowers.
Other characters currently played at Ryan's Gulch: N/A.
☞ Character Information;
Character Name: Ianto Jones
Canon: Torchwood
OU or AU?: Original Universe
Canon point: The end of Children of Earth: Day One - after The Hub is blown up.
Setting: Torchwood takes place in modern day Wales, in the city of Cardiff. If it isn't raining, it likely will rain. While nothing may seem out of the ordinary to the untrained eye, there is a Rift in time and space that runs through the city which allows things - objects, people, and creatures to slip through and into this city. This is also the city that the Doctor will sometimes visit to refuel his TARDIS (his time travelling police box). The Torchwood agency was founded by Queen Elizabeth to protect people from alien threats, and of course the Doctor. Often, there are many an unexplained events that take place in Cardiff - weird deaths, large creatures that roam the streets and sewers, yet people are content to go on with their daily lives. Torchwood likes to think it is a great kept secret, but if you ask anyone where it is located, they'll point towards the bay.
History: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ianto_Jones
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, still 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. 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 really 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.
Abilities: Ianto, while possessing no actual abilities that are in any way super powered, Torchwood wonders if Ianto's coffee making skills, and complete and utter ability to clean even the worst messes is makes him an alien. Ianto is a proficient worker, has a great memory, and makes a mean cup of coffee. He is also somewhat of a skilled fighter (improving weapons, headbutting cannibals and a stun gun), can run for his life and sufficiently clean up any evidence of aliens/administering retcon (memory erasing drug), and dump bodies.
How did your character arrive in Rapture? Ianto will be arriving via teleport, given Torchwood Cardiff's Rift, he will believe that it is the force at work.
Why are you choosing to continue your character's development here from another RP? N/A
Network sample: I - hello?
[ ... quietly, more of an observation to himself: ] This doesn't look like Cardiff anymore.
Right. I'm either very concussed - or this is the work of the Rift. I honestly think I'd prefer the former, just in this case. But with current luck standing the way it is...
[Sigh, there's the sound of fumbling with something. He's still wary and alert, looking around for anything, but nothing looks familiar here. No stinking pile of rubble where the Hub had been. Just an unfamiliar city.] Jack, Gwen if either of you are there, and hearing this I'd appreciate knowing that you're having as much fun as I am. It's not every day we get the chance to travel to such exotic places for free.
[ Or at least, he'd appreciating knowing.. that they're you know, alive. ]
Log sample: The force of the blow knocks Ianto off his feet, there's fire at his back - the Hub is gone, nothing but a hole in the middle of the plass and Jack is still down there. Except that he's been blown to bits, the bomb had been implanted inside of him. There was nothing left of him, judging from the size of the explosion. Nothing but bits. Everything down there was gone, but to go back down there and stick around here would mean certain death, especially since the goons that had done the job would likely be showing up to make sure that the job had been finished and that Torchwood, for whatever reason they had to kill it's three remaining members was indeed gone.
It wasn't like they didn't have their fair share of enemies, but Ianto was willing to bet it had something to do with the children, and the way they had stopped so suddenly, all over the world, speaking in one voice. Shakily, in the rubble, Ianto stood. His ears rang and his ears buzzed, suit ruined and could feel cuts on his face and body - but he was okay, alive even. Gwen, he hoped had gotten out of the way safely (he'd have to congratulate her later, once the world was not ending). That would be his first move. To find Gwen, find Gwen and then contact Rhiannon and make sure she and the kids were okay.
They'd need to figure this out somehow -- he missed Tosh more and more, if anyone would be able to figure out how to solve this without all of their technology, it would be her. But no, here he was -- in the ruins of what had once been Torchwood Three, one pregnant woman was already on the run and if their leader was alive (could Jack survive getting blown up?), and there were people shooting at him.
Today was really not Ianto Jones' day. He took off running, listening to the sound of the bullets hitting the ground behind him but didn't stop. Not until he stopped, throwing himself behind a brick wall for a moment. He'd be foolish to believe he'd lost them, isn't that what they always do wrong in the bloody films? He pushed himself off of the wall, looking around ... this didn't look like anywhere in Cardiff... no, this wasn't Cardiff. Ianto knew his city and this was not it.
Shit.
