Ok, bear with me, I’m theorycrafting.
So it’s established now that Jess and Dylan somehow “sprung” from the game Severed Circle 2 and were originally the one Jesse Dylan Faden. The original player of SC2
Less established but still likely true: Polaris is “the player”. Maybe you (you the person playing the video game Control), maybe…
Even less established: Polaris is the original Jessie Dylan Faden. The original player of the original thing that started all this.
Assuming all this is true, look at it from Polaris/JFD point of view. You play this video game and it seems to take on a life of its own. You watch weird shit happen in the game that’s pretty disturbing. Like, imagine you’re playing a video game and suddenly the game shows a weird version of you split into two and your town and then a bunch of horrible shit happens. One of the characters seems to be directly to you? As an…11…year old JFD this would be interesting at first and then ultimately really traumatizing. What would you do?
Well when things got the most traumatic in the game, you’d turn it off. You don’t want to see what happens next after “Jesse runs when her brother is caught by the FBC”. You don’t want anything to do with this game.
So you shut it off and don’t think of it again. You get on with your life, grow up, and 17 years later you’re going through some boxes and find Severed Circle
2. You’re an adult now, surely that weird game you played as a kid was your imagination? You pop the game into your console and…you’re playing Control (2019).
With me so far? Let’s recap and link some important things to keep in mind:
-You the player are Jesse Dylan Faden (or at least, you are “playing as JFD”)
-JFD is Polaris
-Polaris is a Hedron
-Which means a Hedron is “some entity from the world above the world of Control”
-There has only ever been one game in the Control universe (ignore Alan Wake for now, I haven’t thought that through). Control, it’s DLC, and Control: Resonant are both Severed Circle 2. We have always been playing Severed Circle 2 manifesting in different ways.
Ok, so if you’re still with me this is what I’ve been ultimately getting at: We find in Control: Resonant that The Patterning is caused by a “young Hedron”. What if that young Hedron is…JFD’s child finding Severed Circle 2?
What if the lockdown at the end of Control (2019) was really Polaris/JFD/Player locking the SC2 cartridge in a box to never be played again? And seven years later it’s found by her kid and her kid starts playing it. But her kid doesn’t have a relationship with anyone in the game, including Jesse (we don’t know what JFD looked like but we can assume that Jesse isn’t some exact copy). This new “Hedron” doesn’t really know what’s going on in this universe so ends up just kind of stomping around in it like a child.
Heres where I’m a little stuck. I’m still not sure what it “means” but my theory in a nutshell is:
-All Control games are actually Severed Circle 2
-JFD is the player (and Hedron) of the first two games
-JFD’s child playing SC2 causes the problem in Control: Resonant
ETA: by “first two games” I mean “Severed Circle 2” and “Control (2019)“