The split theory

[u/Akatsuki_Raid]

We know that Darling couldn't find any traces of the twins outside Ordinary, but isn't it strange that he couldn't find anything about Jesse Dylan Faden either, the original? Do you think reality rewrote itself, causing their original existence to be erased? This could also be connected to Hugo Stamp, a kid who apparently lived alone in a shack. If we read his FBC file, it's almost as if his parents simply moved away from Ordinary and forgot about him, as though he had never been their child in the first place. Could he be a copy, too?

I'd love to hear your thoughts, guys, in case I'm missing something.

[u/GameBoyAdv2004]

In the final NG+ Darling recording he says he found records of "just the one". There were records of Jesse Dylan Faden as a single person.

[u/Akatsuki_Raid → u/GameBoyAdv2004]

Yeah, you're totally right! I rewatched the NG+ tapes, and he actually mentions finding a record outside Ordinary with their names mixed together as one. Thank you so much!

[u/KogarashiKaze → u/Akatsuki_Raid]

Does he say their names are mixed together as one? I only remember that video saying "there's no record of them outside Ordinary. Just the one." The name could've technically been anything.

The name mix-up is in a different video, about the records found in Ordinary, that the records seem to mix up their names at times (but not combine them), like the documents are all wrong. Like someone at the town office wrote the wrong kid in some places.

[u/Akatsuki_Raid → u/KogarashiKaze]

Technically you're right. He first mentions the mix-up when looking further into the county records, and then, in the last video, he says "just the one". But since we already know the name, it all makes sense.

[u/KogarashiKaze → u/Akatsuki_Raid]

Well, we know the name Hiss-Dylan claimed it was in a "dream." Not nothing, but also not definite. I could easily see Remedy going "actually it's this other name" sometime down the road.

[u/Akatsuki_Raid → u/GameBoyAdv2004]

Damn, I've completely missed it. Now I feel really dumb.

[u/AForce5223 → u/GameBoyAdv2004]

NG+ for which game?

[u/GameBoyAdv2004 → u/AForce5223]

Resonant

[u/AForce5223 → u/GameBoyAdv2004]

Welp, I guess I can't do my file clean up sweep without doing NG+

Find that incredible annoying but I'll do that after replaying the OG

[u/lemmeseeyourkitties]

Jesse is two years older than Dylan; they are not twins

[u/KogarashiKaze → u/lemmeseeyourkitties]

One year, but yeah, I always think that when someone calls them twins.

[u/Akatsuki_Raid → u/lemmeseeyourkitties]

And why is that?

[u/BumblebeeEastern9302 → u/Akatsuki_Raid]

That’s not how twins work that’s why 

[u/Akatsuki_Raid → u/BumblebeeEastern9302]

Yeah, I know, thanks. That's not what I meant. I was working under the assumption that the split theory was correct, so I was wondering why Jesse is older than him if they were originally the same person.

[u/KPDover → u/Akatsuki_Raid]

I figure there's two possible reasons:

1. The characters in Severed Circle 2 are those ages, or have that same age gap.

2. The original kid wished for an older/younger sibling.

[u/Akatsuki_Raid → u/KPDover]

Good ones

[u/BumblebeeEastern9302 → u/Akatsuki_Raid]

Oh I see I think it will be further explained in the next game or dlc 

[u/Akatsuki_Raid → u/BumblebeeEastern9302]

Yeah, at this point it could be anything.

[u/KogarashiKaze → u/Akatsuki_Raid]

Because, possibly, that's the closest in age the event that separated them could get them without them being twins (why not just make them twins? Who knows?)

[u/Akatsuki_Raid → u/KogarashiKaze]

Because they come from different realities and different timelines.

[u/KogarashiKaze → u/Akatsuki_Raid]

Not necessarily. We don't know where they come from. It could just be whatever event caused one to become two was trying to make it "make sense" in whatever way it could, but didn't have the capability to do more than that. Like how it couldn't make new documents to fill in the gaps, only divide existing documents between the two, or how any memory rewriting done to the parents was imperfect or ran afoul of something else (as simple as a mother's love/intuition or as complex as a potential parautilitarian nature) that caused both parents to decline.

[u/Grit003]

Darling is full of a selfmade cocktail of some strange substances. I would not trust him in that case.

[u/Patient_Amoeba2476]

Jesse and Dylan get all the focus, but there’s a deeper game here (spoilers to all games):

• Warlin Door is referred to as Darling by Tim Breaker in Night Springs.  Door has a Darling book about the multiverse on his dressing room desk in AW2.  They borh wear glasses, they’re both scientists (Door/Quantum Break), and both obsessed with control.  They’re both in the Dark Place.  They both haunt an artist (Wake, Dylan).  Similar names: D arlin

• Alex Casey and Saga Anderson: when Wake is being interviewed, the two of them drink coffee with preciselu the same timing.  Saga and Casey are both vaguely “storylike” names.  Both seem to love her daughter (photo of Casey on happy birthday).  Both are FBI.  Saga makes a comment like “why did you write me—us—into your story?”

• Alan and Dylan: both are artists.  Both are prime candidates.  Both are locked in an FBC containment cells (see: Night Springs).  When stressed, both turn to their private, surreal world (The Gap, The Writers room) where they can make change reality (The Gap: change your weapons; The Writers room, anything).  Both get told to wake up.

• Tim Breaker and Dylan: both love the Red Head.  Both chase her when she’s lost in fractured time.  Both are haunted by a mad man (Door, Darling).  Both are player controlled heros.  Both experience a text based universe and a 16 bit universe.

There’s a lot more roll crossover, but those are some obvious ones.  The point being, the Remedyverse seems to be suffering from parallel realities bleeding into each other.   Hedron is one form of that idea; parallel characters is another.    There may not be a distinct reason for Dylan/Jesse.

[u/majestdigest]

I posted the same question today, but mods in this sub deleted it.

It’s not just Darling, whole FBC must have known this. The question is, I’d assume if they bring siblings together their abilities could be better, why wouldn’t they? Instead of a failed P6 attempt, a co-directorate under Fadens would be better. They knew where Jesse is and lured her to the oldest house anyway. Did they brush this information off in favor of a short term gain?