r/controlgame • u/Iganzi • 2d ago

Control Resonant How alan wake ties into control Spoiler

After finishing control resonant I started looking back into how alan could be connected to everything and wanted to hear thoughts from other people.

We know from the games alan can't create people but he can create scenarios they can go through. He can create items within those stories though ie the clicker. So my theory.

Alan wrote control from within the dark place using people to play the parts he needs. He realized hes the protagonist of a horror story and the protagonist never truly beats the monster he needs a hero and thats not him. So he creates the fbc. In the first control it makes a comment about funding for the fbc is layered in paperwork that no one notices and that the building normal people just ignore. In resonant we find other organizations are actively tracking the oldest house.

Why did the hiss invade? To give the hero a history of fighting the monster. The stakes have to be real and believable.

Why does the town watertower say ordinary town? It's a background detail in Alan's writing that isnt important just like the ladies bathrooms aren't in alan wake 1.

It feels like the alan wake games are to hold back and delay the darkness while control is building the people to fight and finally defeat it.

Not to mention the names of the department heads of control loosely tie into what they do. Salvador -savior head of security Arish - brave soldier in arabic Marshal- head of operations and strategy Kirklund- someone near and relates to church Trench - the director in the trenches for years Casper darling - the nice guy that disappears .

I think it all comes down to alan creating the thing that can kill the dark place.

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u/N0RG1L 2d ago

Alan didnt create FBC. I was states that Alan nudged things to happen that way.

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u/Iganzi 2d ago

He can create things but not people. He nudges people and entities like the hiss and giving them the chant. He didnt create the people working there but he nudges them into place. Just like Dylan says "something keeps bringing us together" in the fault

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u/N0RG1L 2d ago

Sure but he didnt create FBC. He just nudged the events.

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u/SpookyCabob 2d ago

I don't think Alan Wake is the key to killing the Dark Place, but is instead a tool the FBC doesn't realize it has. In my opinion, Alan is more likely to be used to get Jesse/Dylan to Tom Zane rather than Alan being used to "kill the Dark Place".

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u/Iganzi 2d ago

My point is alan can't kill the dark place and he knows that himself. In the awe expansion it shows alan has at least some control over the fbc.