Dylan Faden
Dylan Faden is the playable protagonist of Control Resonant. Designated Prime Candidate 6 by the FBC, he is Jesse Faden's younger brother, a parautilitarian held inside the Oldest House since childhood, and is now deployed into Manhattan with the Aberrant as his primary weapon.
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Dylan Faden is the playable protagonist of Control Resonant, Remedy's 2026 action role-playing sequel to Control (2019). He is the younger brother of Jesse Faden and is officially designated Prime Candidate 6 within FBC records. Where the first game placed Jesse inside the agency, Resonant flips the camera: Dylan begins the story as its longest-held containment subject and is released into the field only after the situation collapses. For broader context, see the Overview.
Quick Profile
Field | Detail |
|---|---|
Designation | Prime Candidate 6 |
Sister | Jesse Faden, FBC Director |
Handler | Zoe De Vera, FBC Field Agent |
Status | Released from containment |
Powers Class | Parautilitarian |
Background
Dylan and Jesse grew up in Ordinary, Maine, where a childhood Altered World Event drew the attention of the Federal Bureau of Control. The incident that gave Jesse her abilities also exposed Dylan, and the agency took him into custody afterward. He was never released. He spent the rest of his childhood and his entire adulthood inside the Oldest House, classified and contained as a long-term subject of paranatural research.
Players of the original Control will already know him: Dylan appears throughout that game as a supporting character, often shown bedridden in a tank or medical bay deep inside the building. Resonant picks up that thread and centers it.
His Class: Parautilitarian
Remedy describes Dylan as a parautilitarian, a coined term the studio has informally translated as a "somewhat spooky superhero." The label points at a blend: someone whose abilities sit on the supernatural side of the FBC's books, but who is also trained and deployed as an active operative rather than locked away as a hazard. The class is built around paranatural powers plus hands-on combat, which is why Resonant's identity is melee-first.
Resonant's Premise for Dylan
The story is set seven years after Control. The Oldest House lockdown has failed, and a new paranatural crisis has spilled into the streets of Manhattan. Jesse, the previous Director, is missing or estranged. With its existing tools unable to contain what is loose in the city, the FBC turns to the one asset it has been holding for years: Dylan.
That setup gives him two motivations that run in parallel. The first is the family thread: he is searching for his sister Jesse. The second is internal: after a lifetime as a contained subject, he is fighting to hold onto his humanity against the cosmic forces pressing against him.
Combat Identity
Dylan's fighting style is melee-led. His signature weapon is the Aberrant, a shapeshifting close-quarters armament that fills the same narrative slot for him that the Service Weapon filled for Jesse, but is built around blades, hammers, and other forms rather than firearms. The wider system is covered on the Melee Combat page. Confirmed paranatural abilities include:
Reach: a gravity-defying traversal ability for crossing paranaturally twisted architecture.
Shift: momentum redirection executed through the Gravity Anomalies that warp Manhattan.
Force-push attacks for crowd control and knockback.
Remote explosions triggered at range.
A deployable shield that doubles as an offensive tool.
Throwable turrets that act as temporary support emplacements.
Combos generate resources that feed these specials, so the loop is to chain melee strings, spend the meter on a power, and exploit the opening for stuns and executions.
Field Operations and Zoe De Vera
Once he is operating outside the Oldest House, Dylan does not work alone. His handler throughout the campaign is Zoe De Vera, an FBC Field Agent introduced for Resonant. She is his operator on the radio side, coordinating deployments and feeding him agency context. Their working relationship is one of the human anchors keeping him tethered while the city destabilizes around him.
Unconfirmed Details
Several details about Dylan have not been officially confirmed and should not be assumed:
Voice cast has not been publicly announced.
His exact age in the Resonant timeline is unstated; only that he is younger than Jesse and has spent his entire life in FBC custody since the Ordinary AWE.
The full roster of his paranatural abilities is broader than what has been previewed, and the talent-tree structure that gates them is partially undisclosed.
Specific story branches, named bosses, and his end-state at the close of the campaign have not been revealed.
This page will be updated as more is revealed.