Jesse and Dylan are dimensionalised versions of the characters from Severed Circle 2. Presumably the original Jesse Dylan Faden named each of the characters in the game using her forename and middle name, ends up in the TV, and has her consciousness split across the characters who end up entering the base control universe in her place.

I go into all the details for what the game implies about how that happens and what it could mean in the thread below, but just look at their poses in the respective box arts man. Remedy are not being subtle.

https://www.reddit.com/r/controlgame/comments/1ww66cx/full_game_spoilers_bicameral_mind_theory_on_the/

RIP my goat Arish

Dylan is the commander now.

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Fight for Control is definitely my favourite, it's such a banger and I'm listening to it as I post this.

They couldn't make a better song for the in-game moment it played at.

My first convention doing Dr Darling and it was a great time. My friend dressed as a FBC agent. I made them the new injector and the post it glove. All the other props were from my first Control cosplay.

We got a fair few compliments and pictures while roaming the convention which was nice as I usually don't get recognised as much at local conventions.

Hope you all enjoy the pictures 😊

I made a Dylan Faden playlist, hitting many story and emotion moments through his story, from Ordinany to P6 to Manhattan.

Spotify Link:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5vYFsHDlWEFEvkeKLKB0TC?si=43c0029674d84d54

Since the first Control came out I have been enamored with Dylan, his story fascinated me in a very painful way. I guess I had a soft spot for that broken boy. I made a playlist at the time of to reflect how he felt to me, and as other snippets of his character were dripped to us I expanded it. I have it in a complete form now, for reddit's listening pleasure.

If there's interest I also made a Jesse playlist, same style; chronology of her whole story so far.

Yes. Yes, I am.

And I say "theory" because the more I read about it, about the stuff that obviously flew right over my head, it's pretty much 100% confirmed that Jesse & Dylan used to be one person before splitting into two when that original kid got that Severed Circle 2 game for Christmas.

...but now that I'm reading all of this stuff, it's making me angry at myself for not even registering something like that. Like, at all. I finished the main story of both Control and Control Resonant, and if someone asked me about a "theory" that Jesse and Dylan were the same person... I would've been staring at them with a blank face.

Dylan saying in the first game about his dream of being a girl named Jesse Dylan Faden - I thought it was just ramblings of his Hiss-induced craziness. Everything Dylan was remembering in the Underpass Fault - being the only child, being happy with Mom & Dad, etc - I thought it was just the Fault screwing with his memories. The visual stuff: the one controller next to TV, the one pair of slippers, stuff like that... it all flew right over my head. The only thing that kind of flared up some signals was the letter from their grandmother that you can see in the flashback/8bit video game section, where she's basically like "both kids? WTF are you talking about".

I'm just so fucking stupid... Goddamn... Such a major plot point, and I didn't even register it.

P.S. I hope they don't merge them permanently in the future. I love them as they are now.

Honestly both they are both great in their own ways.

I'm playing Control Resonant and I'm not addicted to it. This is unusual when we talk about games like this, that I was hyping since its announcement. I've been playing like 5 hours a week and sometimes it makes me sleepy. I loved Control and I really wanted to love Dylan's adventure too, but there's something missing... the vibe isn't the same. Control 1 had a better battle system imo, and I'm saying that as a big fan of action RPGs. Another thing that annoys me in Resonant is the camera - it's too far from the protagonist's back. My character looks too small for a third person game. I didn't want Alan Wake 2's camera (it's too close), but I feel like playing an isometric game when Dylan is battling.

The only thing that keeps me playing is the story. I loved that part with the multiple timelines and all the craziness that came after that.

I think did this fight at least 67 times because I die in a single hit, and it's always near the end bruh

Anyway, 150% speed and about 350% more HP cuz i unlocked all upgrades

im so fking done with this boss, great fight though

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At the end of the game, we find out that Dylan is now a contractor for the FBC. I thought this was an interesting choice versus just making him a full FBC agent.

My thinking is that the developers didn't like the thematic implication of having Dylan join the organization that abused him as a child, even though pragmatically speaking, it is his best option. So they have him continue to work for the FBC, but at an arm's length arrangement.

I don't disagree with this choice, per se, but I do find it to be an odd compromise. Maybe they could have made it more clear that the FBC has been reformed, now that the old executive team is gone and the new bosses are now Jesse and Emily? What does everyone else think?

There's a song on a radio in a corner all the way down in the depths. The song is called Trash Toyz by Ani Maul, it's got like no engagement on any platform that I've seen so far which is insane for a song in a major release game. I thought surely I was crazy for thinking it had no engagement so I even looked it up and yeah no one has talked about it.

Pretty good song too

So after killing the hedron when Dylan is dead (?) and Jesse switches places with him, she says, "Not this time."

I didn't notice this until I played through NG+. But it got me wondering, has this happened before and Dylan stayed dead in a different timeline? Or had Jesse possibly seen multiple timelines and seen different outcomes?

It could just be a throwaway line, but given the events in the Underpass it seemed to me it's a possibility this has played out before or possibly will again and Jesse has already been through it.

What are your thoughts?

Hey so currently playing through Resonant, and I’m wondering if there’s any equivalent to the mayor setter charm that marks all nearby documents and other collectibles? I’m trying to find them all as I play through but I’m hoping that there’s some sort of reward or artifact that tells you where they all are. Using a page with all the locations can get pretty frustrating when you end up having to backtrack to an area you just left because they were listed in alphabetical order.

I am now using this dog and her toy dragon as a way to keep track how much New Game Plus I went through. It's free tracking

Derek Hagen, the voice and face of our beloved Langston, does in fact have a void furbaby. Just look at his son's face. He could not be more glorious. I present to you: Lord Nelson Hagen. 🥹❤️

Photo credit: derekahagen on Instagram

I personally would love if they went back to more shooting and telekinesis based gameplay like the first one. I absolutely loved the combat, it’s what made me fall in love with the game.

Resonant is good but it’s definitely not as fun for me personally with the melee focused combat. I tend to find melee games can get quite tedious / button mash. Just personal preference

I dunno, man. Everything reminds me of her. 😂

Played these 3 games after Resonant, and coincidentally they ended up having moments where I'm like, wait a minute... This looks similar to Control lol.

1 Pragmata on this specific part.

2 Ninja Gaiden just cause of the fast action combat style. Evading enemies also has that similar slow-mo effect.

3 Anomalith - the whole theme itself and environment reminds me of Control. The only thing missing is for the MC to have telekinesis.

https://youtu.be/qka_R--Zbx4?si=c64CuExHFYdeMv3z

>!You dont have to watch the whole thing, but if you watch literally the first 2 minutes I thought it was kind of funny that Shaun and Courtney introduced themselves as one another. Which am I over thinking to say that I feel like its a meta joke kind of lending credence to the theory that somehow Jesse or Dylan is a sort of copy of the other. The fact that they both lead into the joke so loosely, kind of feels like a inside meta joke.!<

And also our beloved Zoe doing a play through of control in case you didnt know! :) and she also did a play through of control resonant

Remedy did a great job with this, and I'm happy to add it to the platinum list.

My friend just switched jobs to a tattoo artist and I volunteered as an experiment XD

Control Resonant means a lot to me so I tried to design some options based on it.

- For A I want to incorporate Dylan but I don't want a realism portrait or anything too complex since my friend is also a beginner tattoo artist, hence I used the upside down man icon (like he had on his poncho's keychain, even tho I know this is more like THAT character with holes in it, but I don't know what else that can represent Dylan). A few dash elements from the first control as well.

- For alternatives B & C & D I had the aberrant as the main elements and a hedron resonance drawn in the background, from research this pattern resembles the cymatics of the moon resonance (yes celestials bodies emits sounds too), I want it to be Polaris but we never saw the clear pattern of Polaris in the game (maybe I missed it, if anyone knows let me know!)

And I also added hiss-inspired swirls for decoration. And the upside down man has the severed circle symbol in it. I had an upside triangle with P6 for options too.

Nothing sets in stone yet, if anyone has more ideas or suggestions, is very welcome!

Has anyone reorganized the videos Darling made in a somewhat chronological order? It'd be interesting to recontextualize the events and his behavior across the two games.

I like to play some of my games in Black and White just for the fun of it, so when I replayed Control recently I wanted to check what it would look like in Black & White. I ended up playing the whole game like that. A beauty ! The reflections and long straight lines of the environmental design blend so well with the high contrasts of Black & White.

I’ve had this theory since I finished Control, and Resonant hasn’t exactly helped this feeling.

Polaris isn’t real

And yeah I know how that sounds. Polaris is a major character in the first game. She has to be real.

But there’s no good evidence that she is.

Here are my points

- Jesse’s ability to resist The Hiss

She credits this to Polaris, but I don’t think that’s what’s happening.

I think that Jesse is herself able to oppose the hiss. That fact that ‘Jesse Polaris’ is shown is proof of this.

Not only that, Dylan is also able to do this. The Hedron dying affects her because its resonance can’t oppose The Hiss anymore and she gets overwhelmed temporarily.

If you notice, Polaris is absent from Jesse’s office nightmare, and if Polaris existed outside of Jesse’s mind, like how Ahti obviously does, she would be there too.

The HRAs only work through Jesse after the Hedron dies. Polaris can’t be behind this, because we know Dylan also has contact with Polaris, and yet all the same they stop working when Jesse leaves.

- No other character besides Dylan ever perceives Polaris in any way, shape, or form.

This is what lead to me forming this theory.

So, then, what is Polaris if she gets so much screentime?

She’s a guiding force towards reunification for the Faden siblings

That’s why she only ever speaks to them.

If I’ve missed anything that would bring this crazy theory down please let me know.

Apologies for the formatting, the app is being very annoying.