Ianto Jones Sr
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Ianto Jones, also known in the 1980s as Disco, was the husband of Glenda Jones, father of Ianto and Rhiannon and maternal grandfather of David and Mica Davies.
Biography
Early life
Ianto Jones lived in the Gaer and married Glenda one March, although he would later claim that he had never loved her and never remembered which day in March was their wedding anniversary. In the 1980s, Mr Jones was known as Disco, or simply D, because of his "funky moves" and spent a lot of time in pubs to forget about his unhappy marriage, also embarking on an affair with Dezzy. He brought in money by fraudulently claiming unemployment benefits and doing odd jobs, although he usually left these jobs unfinished. (AUDIO: Disco [+]Loading...["Disco (audio story)"])
Descent into alcoholism
Disco and his wife had two children: Rhiannon and Ianto, the latter of whom Disco thought cried too much. However, he loved them both and took them (AUDIO: Disco [+]Loading...["Disco (audio story)"]) to the Electro to watch films on Saturday mornings. (TV: From Out of the Rain [+]Loading...["From Out of the Rain (TV story)"]) He met his time-travelling son, who was going by the name Tom, in August 1987 and started to improve his life by following his advice to stop drinking and having sex with Dezzy, coming to the conclusion that he had to leave Glenda because of his unhappiness. However, Ianto ensured that the timeline remained unchanged by getting Ginge to attack Disco in Cinderella's. Disco left Ginge unable to walk without a walking stick.
Disco was horrified by his temper and, according to Dezzy and Ginge, was never the same after the fight. He stayed with Glenda and his family and became an alcoholic, slowly losing his fun-loving qualities. (AUDIO: Disco [+]Loading...["Disco (audio story)"]) He worked at Debenhams and did not have a good relationship with his son, (TV: Children of Earth: Day Five [+]Loading...["Children of Earth: Day Five (TV story)"]) who would later claim that he was instead a master tailor capable of determining a man's inside leg measurement by his stride. (TV: Something Borrowed [+]Loading...["Something Borrowed (TV story)"]) At a park, Mr Jones pushed Ianto too hard on the swings and caused him to break his leg, which Rhiannon believed was an accident. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Two [+]Loading...["Children of Earth: Day Two (TV story)"])
Ianto moved away to London due to his father disagreeing with his life choices; (AUDIO: New Girl) he repeatedly told Ianto that working in the steelworks or fixing cars was a proper job. (PROSE: Trace Memory) However, his father found him and forcibly moved in with him. He tended to break in if he could not find the key, pass out drunk and wake up periodically to urinate on the carpet. Yvonne Hartman offered to retcon Ianto's family, purging their memories of Ianto's father, but Ianto eventually decided against it, saying his sister deserved to have a father. (AUDIO: Blind Summit)
Death
Jones drank himself to death. (AUDIO: Disco [+]Loading...["Disco (audio story)"]) In the last days of his life, he was hospitalised and waited three weeks for a call from his son, in vain, before he died. Ianto, dreading emotional upheaval at the thought this would without a doubt be the final time he spoke to his father, could not bring himself to say goodbye. (AUDIO: The House of the Dead)
Along with other dead people, he was "summoned" by the entity Syriath in the House of the Dead. He talked with a "revived" Ianto Jones, holding his "betrayal" against him. He tried to persuade him to let Syriath rise, in order to see again his passed loved ones such as his mother, Owen, Toshiko and Lisa. He disappeared along with every person "resurrected" by Syriath when Ianto sealed the Cardiff Space-Time Rift forever. It is unclear if this was the real Mr. Jones or an illusion crafted by Syriath. (AUDIO: The House of the Dead)
Appearance
He had baby blue eyes. (AUDIO: Disco [+]Loading...["Disco (audio story)"])
