Thanks for noticing that! Yes, he's always thought of Ianto as having to be protected/sheltered/looked after/etc - and a large part of his homophobia, as applicable to Ianto, is that he thinks it's going to make Ianto's life hard. The rest of it is just plain homophobia, of course - the kind that's latent in society as a whole. It's Ianto's coming out that forces Dafydd to examine his ingrained prejudices, and while I don't think he'll be attending any pride parades, he's been slowly becoming more accepting (with the occasional backsliding).

It's just that Ianto hasn't seen any of that, of course. And that's really why I wanted to write this fic - because I had all this backstory about Dafydd and why he's the way he is, and none of it had a place in Counting Stars. I remembered those chapters where Dafydd showed up, and was kind of quiet and not confrontational, like Ianto had expected him to be - and practically no one bought the idea that he might have changed. Which is a good thing, because that's what Ianto thinks, and certainly what the readers were meant to when reading through his POV... but it's nice to be able to show that Ianto can be quite greatly mistaken in some things.

Anyway, as always, thanks for the lovely review, and I'm glad you liked this.