boomslovingthealien:

I guess I hadn’t realized how Ianto changes into a different person when faced with death. Jack sticks a gun in his face in “Cyberwoman” and he’s like “EXECUTE ME BITCH, OR LET ME DO WHAT I WANT”.

Then he loses his shit in “Countrycide” and dissolves into a quivering mess right up until the moment he knows he’s going to die, and then he goes badass and headbutts people. In “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” he looks horrified with Hart’s gun to his head, but yet he rushes Hart briefly with the fury that scares Hart (not easy to do). In “Meat”, he is literally shot (thankfully, the gun had no bullets), and then he’s kicking doors into people’s faces and stun-gunning them in the forehead.

Ianto switch from terrified to don’t-fuck-with-me has a thin wire of a trigger.