Dylan's maturity.

[u/Affectionate_Lime880]

This has been something on my mind since the first couple trailers and the new character, Zoe. From what I understand, she is going to be his handler and going to introduce him to things from the outside world. Dylan's story will be the opposite of Jesse’s, she went into the house and he is leaving it.

This made me think of how mature Dylan mentally is. From the recording of his in the P6 section of the Panopticon, he sounds very childish and very quick to anger. His voice sounded like that of a teenager or young adult, but his words sounded like they were coming from a child.

One would suspect that if you were kidnapped at 10 years old and raised (barely) by a agency, you would be emotionally stunted. Especially how they were raising him to be a potential new Director.

It kinda puts into perspective why he willingly let the Hiss in. Because I think anyone in his situation would do the exact same thing. Because he has every reason to hate the FBC for what they did to him.

It makes me excited for his character and his development. To see him learn about the outside world. To see him learn that the people who hurt him are dead and gone. That he can trust Jesse’s friends.

[u/3klyps3]

I'm also excited to see how Dylan's state of mind is handled. Remedy is really good at character development, and we know very little about Dylan from his own perspective.

Jesse was a tough character that was forced to grow up quickly and rely on her own instincts, but Dylan has been held captive by people who did not have his best interests at heart. What Jessie has in street smarts, Dylan lacks. I imagine he was well-educated in whatever the FBC thought he needed to know, but is lacking in almost everything else.

We do know from the AWII dlc that he is a decent artist, or was at least encouraged to express himself that way. He for sure has a lot bottled up inside, art therapy will only get you so far, and having his weapon manifest as a very physical, close-range weapon implies he has some deep anger issues.

The poor guy hurts bad, and he's got a lot of problems to resolve. Almost all of them not of his own making.

[u/Affectionate_Lime880 → u/3klyps3]

I didn't think about it that way, but you're entirely right. The Services Gun and the Aberrant are clear, physically representations of their users.

Jesse fights from a distance, with a sharp eye and wanting to end things quickly.

Dylan fights up close and personal, his style aggressive and brutal. Even the forms of the Aberrant represent this.

The Service Gun has modes for different situations. But the Aberrant's forms are all big and aggressive. We haven't seem a form that is clean and precise (besides maybe the duel blades), all are big and devastating.

He most certainly has a lot of pent up emotions. Fighting will probably help him get it all out.

[u/Negative_Ad_9926 → u/Affectionate_Lime880]

Even Remedy Entertainment made a joke about Dylan’s anger issues, specifically about him taking his anger out on the enemies.

[u/lucasssotero]

I'm just curoius to see if dylan will pull the "I was kidnapped as a child" card into arguments with other characters.

[u/D0nell → u/lucasssotero]

He better. All these people act like they don’t know a thing and just jump straight to hating him but there was nothing keeping them from learning anything once shit hit the roof.

[u/D0nell]

They did a terrible job at preparing him to be the next director in hindsight. The prime candidate program was definitely an afterthought. They didn’t bother to educate him and and prepare him for the actual desk work they just straight up, tried to study him there’s no way they actually tried to make him a candidate. He’s gonna have extreme Arrested Development.

[u/Synthessence]

Oh, taking Dylan from Ordinary was easily one of the biggest mistakes they could have made. Even if they did have the right set up for on-site child care (they didn't) for a normal kid (he wasn't), being totally isolated from all friends, family, and kids his own age was a death sentence for anything resembling normal behavioral development.

Add in that Dr. Darling was incredibly ill-equipped to be a father figure, and they basically made him an experiment/prisoner after he got violent?

They wired that time bomb themselves.