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[[edit] | [edit source]]
Early life[[edit] | [edit source]]
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)"])
Fatherhood[[edit] | [edit source]]
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)"]) before he started properly drinking. (AUDIO: Nerves [+]Loading...["Nerves (audio 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)"]) It was Tommy Pierce's belief that he drank to protect himself from his fears of the real world. (AUDIO: Nerves [+]Loading...["Nerves (audio story)"]) Mr Jones worked at Debenhams (TV: Children of Earth: Day Five [+]Loading...["Children of Earth: Day Five (TV story)"]) and once assaulted a police officer. (AUDIO: Nerves [+]Loading...["Nerves (audio story)"])
Mr Jones 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 a master tailor capable of determining a man's inside leg measurement by his stride rather than admit that he worked at Debenhams. (TV: Something Borrowed [+]Loading...["Something Borrowed (TV story)"]) Ianto would later remark that his father was "a shit" to Rhiannon as well. (AUDIO: Nerves [+]Loading...["Nerves (audio 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 found that every conversation with Glenda and Rhiannon was about Mr Jones. (AUDIO: Nerves [+]Loading...["Nerves (audio story)"])
Ianto moved away to London due to his father disagreeing with his life choices; (AUDIO: New Girl [+]Loading...["New Girl (audio story)"]) he repeatedly told Ianto that working in the steelworks or fixing cars was a proper job. (PROSE: Trace Memory [+]Loading...["Trace Memory (novel)"]) 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 [+]Loading...["Blind Summit (audio story)"])
Mr Jones never met Rhiannon's first child, David Davies, and did not leave anything to anybody in his will. (AUDIO: Nerves [+]Loading...["Nerves (audio story)"])
Death[[edit] | [edit source]]
Mr Jones drank himself to death. (AUDIO: Nerves [+]Loading...["Nerves (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 [+]Loading...["The House of the Dead (audio story)"]) Ianto was in London when his father died and was informed by telephone. (AUDIO: Dinner for Yvonne [+]Loading...["Dinner for Yvonne (audio story)"]) Mr Jones was cremated. (AUDIO: Nerves [+]Loading...["Nerves (audio story)"])
Along with other dead people, Mr Jones was "summoned" by the entity Syriath in the House of the Dead. He talked with a "revived" Ianto, 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 Harper, Toshiko Sato and Lisa Hallett. He disappeared along with every person "resurrected" by Syriath when Ianto sealed the Cardiff Space-Time Rift forever. (AUDIO: The House of the Dead [+]Loading...["The House of the Dead (audio story)"])
Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]
Ianto told his colleagues at Torchwood Three that Mr Jones had been a master tailor, (TV: Something Borrowed [+]Loading...["Something Borrowed (TV story)"]) which Gwen Cooper would later learn from Rhiannon was not the case. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Five [+]Loading...["Children of Earth: Day Five (TV story)"])
Alternative timelines[[edit] | [edit source]]
In an alternative timeline caused by Ianto improving Disco's life, he left Glenda and moved to Spain. This resulted in Rhiannon ending up in prison and David and Mica not being born. (AUDIO: Disco [+]Loading...["Disco (audio story)"])
Appearance[[edit] | [edit source]]
Mr Jones had baby blue eyes. (AUDIO: Disco [+]Loading...["Disco (audio story)"])
