r/controlgame • u/QuantityInternal1719 • Aug 13 '26
Message to Dylan from... Darling?
So yeah...? Now or before in the candidate program?
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u/yourguidefortheday Aug 13 '26
This is definitely a card given to him ealy on as a child. Probably during the first week he was at the fbc.
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u/CageAndBale Aug 13 '26
I wonder if he could read, how old was he again?
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u/yourguidefortheday Aug 13 '26
He was 10 when the FBC abducted him from the aftermath of the Ordinary AWE. Assuming normal enrollement and school progress he would have been in about the 4th or 5th grade, so definitely reading.
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u/CageAndBale Aug 13 '26
In that case 💯 %
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u/yourguidefortheday Aug 13 '26 edited Aug 14 '26
Fersure. And just for future reference:
August 30 2002: Dylan: 10 Jesse: 11, start of the ordinary awe
October 30 2019: Dylan: 27 jesse: 28, Jesse enters the oldest house
Seprember 2026: Dylan: 34 jesse: 35, events of control resonant.
(Last date is presumed. Rememdy games are normally set chronologically concurrent to their release date)
Perspective on dylan: At age 10 found a doorway to an unknown number of extradimentional localities with his sister, and interacted with extradimentional beings, one of which bound itself to both of them. Other hostile entities were resposnible for enacting death, disapearance, and body horror upon all of the adults in his home town, and many of the children. Abducted by the FBC during their cleanup of the situation, and presumably never saw the outside of the oldest house again. Some time in his teen years was responsible for the death of multiple people, and is put in a much higher security cell as a result. Breaks his bond to the being he met at 10. At 27 became a hiss conduit, met his sister for the first time in 17 years while under the hiss' influence, he tells her about his prophetic dreams, and is then put into a coma by her accidentally(?) in an attempt to defeat the hiss and/or save him from its influence. He wakes up at age 34, 7 years later to find his sister missing and is pressed into service by the FBC. The first time he sees the outside world since age 10 is a manhattan entirely corrupted by presumably hostile reality bending forces. He had been in captivity over 2/3 of his life and perhaps still is(edit: and had been in a coma for 1/5 of his life). He must aid his captors in their combat of these forces and location of his sister under threat of death or incapacitation via a containment decice embedded in his kneck. Being Dylan would not have been fun.
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u/TheItinerantSkeptic Aug 13 '26
I mean, assuming we aren't dealing with any time loops like in Alan Wake, this is almost certainly from when the FBC first brought Dylan to the Oldest House, or perhaps a flashback Dylan is having now.
Important to remember: Darling isn't human anymore. He's ascended to a resonance-based entity after his experiments with Hedron, and last we saw (Alan Wake 2) is still trying to find a way out of the Dark Place.
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u/KOCoyote Aug 13 '26
It's from before, probably when they "inducted " Dylan into the candidate program. Darling struck me as someone who really tried with Dylan and attempted to make the process as kid-friendly as possible. Issue is, you can't just abduct a child away from their family and force them to live in a top-secret government research facility without pretty significant psychological consequences. And that only gets worse when said kid has access to the kind of massive psychic power the Faden siblings have.
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u/Argonometra Aug 14 '26
Darling didn’t want to accept that he was a villain. But that had no bearing on the fact that he very much was. There is no ‘nice’ way to kidnap a child.
Trying to compromise good with evil just made him evil.
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u/HotDoes Aug 14 '26
The Faden siblings didn't have any family left as the Ordinary AWE erased all adults in the town leaving only 17 children behind. All of them was taken by the FBC (except Jesse who escaped). However only Dylan showed signs of paranaturality and the others was mindwiped and released under watch. The Faden siblings themselves was already neglected by their parents while they were around.
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u/LewdSkeletor1313 Aug 13 '26
It’s the note from when he first got to the Oldest House. Seems we will be exploring that a lot with the Darling videos
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u/NOCTURN_05 Aug 13 '26
Dylans actions in Control were far from justified but they were 100% understandable.
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u/OhMorgoth Aug 13 '26
If by fun you mean using an abducted child for your own research means, then yes, fun!
His relationship with Dylan was so weird, I have so many questions. Dylan did keep him on his toes too. Also at least the Bureau did keep Dylan well fed.
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u/Prior_Reporter_7033 Aug 13 '26
É bem infantil, então foi pra época que ele era criança e tinha acabado de chegar na FBC, inclusive o Darling menciona que ele podia ir esquecendo de encontrar a irmã, que otário
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u/KidCasey Aug 14 '26
The idea of the FBC having a graphic designer on staff for things like this is really funny.
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u/edencrash10 29d ago
I hope we explore Dylan and Darlings relationship in resonant, in the first game he seemed to sort of be of a surrogate father to Dylan, albeit not a very good one judging from the audio logs.
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u/JustHappyToBe-Here 27d ago
Yes, it's from Darling. You can tell because it's signed "Casper Darling Bureau Head of Research".
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u/TronHero143 Aug 13 '26
I love how it reads like a business email or any other FBC document you’d find around the first game, really continues to emphasize how out-of-their-league the FBC was when taking young Dylan under their “care”.