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Jesse Faden is the missing FBC Director and Dylan Faden's older sister in Control Resonant. She is referenced throughout the campaign as a personal motivation for Dylan and as a structural absence in the agency's command, but she is not the playable character in this game. The page below covers Jesse as Resonant references her. Her arc in the first Control is out of scope for this article.

Quick Profile

Why She Is Missing

Jesse's status at the start of Resonant is publicly framed as missing or estranged. The campaign opens roughly seven years after the events of the first game, and Jesse is no longer in active command of the agency. Whether the absence is voluntary, paranatural, or a consequence of an in-fiction event has not been publicly clarified.

The absence has two structural consequences for the rest of the wiki.

Relationship with Dylan

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. While Dylan spent the rest of his childhood and his entire adulthood inside the Oldest House as a long-term containment subject, Jesse remained outside the building until the events of the first game.

Resonant flips the camera. Dylan is the active operative in the streets of Manhattan, and Jesse is the family thread he is trying to find. The wider campaign mission, formally framed as containing the paranatural crisis in the city, has Jesse's disappearance as its emotional underline.

Director Lineage

Jesse is the most recently named Director of the FBC in publicly established lore. The leadership of the agency passes through a sequence of Directors, each chosen under the influence of the Board. Three Directors are publicly confirmed.

Whether an acting Director has been installed in her absence is one of the agency's publicly unanswered questions in Resonant.

In-Game References

Jesse appears in Resonant's setup material as a referenced figure rather than a directly playable one. Remedy has publicly confirmed that Jesse is not a playable character in Resonant; Dylan is the only playable character, and the studio framed the clarification as a way to avoid misleading players who expected a dual-protagonist structure. Her name is foundational to the FBC's current state, to the family thread driving Dylan's campaign, and to the question hanging over the agency's command structure. Specific in-game scenes featuring Jesse, story branches that resolve her status, and her end-state at the close of the campaign have not been publicly disclosed.

What This Page Does Not Cover

Jesse's arc in the first Control is not covered here. The wiki article on this site is for Control Resonant only. Her earlier appearances, the named missions she undertook in the first game, the Objects of Power she bound to herself, and her final scenes from the first game's closing sequence are out of scope for this article. Resonant references her status (former Director, missing) without rehearsing the prior game's events, and this page follows the same boundary.

Unconfirmed Details

• Whether Jesse's absence resolves within the campaign or remains open at the end.

• Voice casting for Jesse in Resonant, if any.

• Whether her relationship to Dylan changes mechanically in New Game Plus (for example via different dialogue or different end-state).

• Whether named FBC personnel from the first game's command structure return alongside her.

This page will be updated as more is revealed.