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weirderthanthouSo since we have returning players, and I posted Jesse's original info post back when like five people were following her: have some character info!
Jesse Faden : Control
Dylan Faden:
This is an ordinary song, about an ordinary girl from an ordinary town. It's the ordinary story! She worked an ordinary job, in an ordinary office, and... something, something, something, something. And that's all I can remember of that dream.
Jesse has never quite felt like she found her place in the world. For years, unease followed her like a persistent pet, like she didn't belong by default. Even before she found the Slide Projector, Jesse was an oddball in her own mind.
She found the projector when she was 11, playing around in a landfill with her brother, Dylan. To their delight and surprise, they discovered it could open doors - Thresholds, as the Bureau would call them - into other universes. Some were places for them to play. Some were places to avoid. And in one of them, they found Polaris: a strange, benign being made up of psychic resonance and intent.
Polaris lives in Jesse now. Or maybe Polaris always lived in Jesse, and the Slide Projector just woke her up. Jesse doesn't know. Jesse's just glad she's here.
It all went to hell from there. Jesse and Dylan's friend Neil borrowed the projector, but bullies stole it from him. What they unleashed warped many of the children in town, and when the adults wouldn't believe Jesse about it, the adults just... vanished.
Then the Federal Bureau of Control rolled into town, cleaned everything up, and took Dylan. Jesse's been alone ever since.
A little over a month ago, after 17 years of searching for her missing brother, Jesse walked into a hidden brutalist office building called the Oldest House, found the Bureau's staff floating possessed in the air, and walked in on the Bureau's Director pointing a gun at his head. Then a funky upside-down pyramid in the Astral Plane gave her the gun and made her Director and only informed her afterward that it would've killed her if she hadn't been worthy, so. That's been a trip.
So what's going on here?
In the world of Control, paranatural forces and other dimensions are never far from our world. They enter through Thresholds - what Fandom would call portals - and they soak up the psychological resonance of the world. That means human psychology and archetypes affect what powers do here, and they are most likely to manifest in objects that people have strong feelings about.
Some of these objects are rogue, acting chaotically and haphazardly, often with horrible results. The Bureau's here to lock those up, and to investigate the Altered World Events (AWEs) that seem to shape them. Some of these objects somehow manage to forge a connection to the Astral Plane, a white space of incredible power where that upside-down pyramid - the Board - lives, and can in turn be tamed by a specific class of psychic humans called Parautilitarians.
Jesse, obviously, is a Parautilitarian, quite possibly made by an event called the Ordinary AWE - or maybe she's always been this way. Binding such items has given her powers like flight, strong telekinesis and mind control. Polaris adds some level of telepathy to that, which mostly just manifests in resistance to mind control and an ability to 'cleanse' psychological invaders from objects and, in some cases, people.
Anyway, a month ago Jesse walked into the Foundation of the Oldest House and walked out into Fandom. Her psychic resonance, which is protecting the Bureau's staff and her now-comatose brother from psychic invaders called the Hiss, still seems to be functioning in the Oldest House. Is she still there? Or is she carrying a piece of it with her?
She has no idea.
But she is your Mayor now, apparently.
So who is she?
Jesse herself is an understated oddball who has spent her entire adult life alone, drifting from place to place, working night shifts while trying to investigate the Bureau. At the same time, she's always felt like someone was watching her (spoiler: it was the Bureau).
That has made her paranoid and introverted. Most of her time in the game, she's by herself, and she spends a lot of this time having internal conversations with herself. At FH, I use thoughts in italic to establish Jesse talking to herself (or to Polaris), so apologies if that drives you crazy, but CANON MADE ME DO IT.
She is now comfortable enough on the island to at least discuss a... limited range of weird stuff she's seen back home, but she doesn't want to tell anyone in this place full of oddballs that she's technically the Director of a Bureau that locks up oddballs. Look, they're still in the middle of an alien invasion, she hasn't had time to change the rules, okay?
Anything else?
Control is a really weird Finnish videogame by Remedy Entertainment where you never know if you're going to be spending the next ten minutes putting on a walkman and heading into a maze to the sound of Finnish metal, fighting an anchor that spits clocks, chasing a video camera through a synthwave train chase, or, well.
Beyond the weird, it is the story of how generations of white men hungering for control broke the world, and how an awkward, insecure redheaded woman coming into her own and taking control might glue it back together again.
It had the fortune of coming out in a year without any obvious Game of the Year candidates and is thus rightly honored as one of the best games of 2019.
I love it, play it. Or just read her extended info post here.
Lucifer Morningstar
Lucifer: So what does it take to please You? Break Your rules and you fall, follow them and you still lose?! Doesn't matter whether you're a sinner! Doesn't matter whether you're a saint! Nobody can win, so what's the point? What's the bloody point?
I'm going to keep this shorter than Jesse's, since he's been around for a while. Lucifer hails from, well, Lucifer, a TV show that is at best an absolute funhouse-mirror-run-through-a-police-procedural-version of the DC Vertigo comic of the same name. They borrow some names, some vague character traits, and the idea of the Devil coming to Earth because he's tired of Hell, and that's about it.
Anyway, Lucifer Morningstar is the actual Devil, and he's been on Earth since about 2012. It's certainly not the first of his trips back to Earth - he has seen a lot of humans naked - but it has been the longest. Somewhere along the line, he fell in love with a police detective called Chloe Decker, but, well, she finally found out that the whole 'I'm the Devil' thing wasn't some eccentric rich British dude shtick but the actual truth, and she didn't handle it well.
Hefled took a vacation to Fandom, and a year and some portalling issues later, he's still here. He hosts at the Devil's Nest twice a week (Tuesday and Friday) mostly to entertain himself, and engages in probably-less-debauchery-than-he'd-like-you-to-think-but-still-definitely-some in a desperate attempt to fill the hole in his heart.
After the BDE, he's slowly beginning to realize the power of friendship is actually working much better on that one.
Which is, of course, why he's taking off for canon in another week or so to solve some murders, attempt to heal the rift with his Detective, and wind up forced to go back to Hell to prevent demons from filtering not just into his Earth but Father knows where else.
He'll be back! Eventually. To deal with his shithead twin brother.
Beyond that, well. Lucifer's a kind of manic hedonist who never lies and who's barely/maybe/not-at-all/sometimes coping with the psychological trauma of a lifetime of neglect and ill-treatment by his divine parents. He's growing as a person. In his weird, narcissistic, emotionally unstable way.
He's immortal, invulnerable to human harm, can compell humans to tell him all their deepest desires, has some wings he doesn't like to look at, wears fancy suits, and is perpetually drinking alcohol that can't make him drunk because it's not strong enough.
That's about it.
Jesse Faden : Control
Dylan Faden:
This is an ordinary song, about an ordinary girl from an ordinary town. It's the ordinary story! She worked an ordinary job, in an ordinary office, and... something, something, something, something. And that's all I can remember of that dream.
Jesse has never quite felt like she found her place in the world. For years, unease followed her like a persistent pet, like she didn't belong by default. Even before she found the Slide Projector, Jesse was an oddball in her own mind.
She found the projector when she was 11, playing around in a landfill with her brother, Dylan. To their delight and surprise, they discovered it could open doors - Thresholds, as the Bureau would call them - into other universes. Some were places for them to play. Some were places to avoid. And in one of them, they found Polaris: a strange, benign being made up of psychic resonance and intent.
Polaris lives in Jesse now. Or maybe Polaris always lived in Jesse, and the Slide Projector just woke her up. Jesse doesn't know. Jesse's just glad she's here.
It all went to hell from there. Jesse and Dylan's friend Neil borrowed the projector, but bullies stole it from him. What they unleashed warped many of the children in town, and when the adults wouldn't believe Jesse about it, the adults just... vanished.
Then the Federal Bureau of Control rolled into town, cleaned everything up, and took Dylan. Jesse's been alone ever since.
A little over a month ago, after 17 years of searching for her missing brother, Jesse walked into a hidden brutalist office building called the Oldest House, found the Bureau's staff floating possessed in the air, and walked in on the Bureau's Director pointing a gun at his head. Then a funky upside-down pyramid in the Astral Plane gave her the gun and made her Director and only informed her afterward that it would've killed her if she hadn't been worthy, so. That's been a trip.
So what's going on here?
In the world of Control, paranatural forces and other dimensions are never far from our world. They enter through Thresholds - what Fandom would call portals - and they soak up the psychological resonance of the world. That means human psychology and archetypes affect what powers do here, and they are most likely to manifest in objects that people have strong feelings about.
Some of these objects are rogue, acting chaotically and haphazardly, often with horrible results. The Bureau's here to lock those up, and to investigate the Altered World Events (AWEs) that seem to shape them. Some of these objects somehow manage to forge a connection to the Astral Plane, a white space of incredible power where that upside-down pyramid - the Board - lives, and can in turn be tamed by a specific class of psychic humans called Parautilitarians.
Jesse, obviously, is a Parautilitarian, quite possibly made by an event called the Ordinary AWE - or maybe she's always been this way. Binding such items has given her powers like flight, strong telekinesis and mind control. Polaris adds some level of telepathy to that, which mostly just manifests in resistance to mind control and an ability to 'cleanse' psychological invaders from objects and, in some cases, people.
Anyway, a month ago Jesse walked into the Foundation of the Oldest House and walked out into Fandom. Her psychic resonance, which is protecting the Bureau's staff and her now-comatose brother from psychic invaders called the Hiss, still seems to be functioning in the Oldest House. Is she still there? Or is she carrying a piece of it with her?
She has no idea.
But she is your Mayor now, apparently.
So who is she?
Jesse herself is an understated oddball who has spent her entire adult life alone, drifting from place to place, working night shifts while trying to investigate the Bureau. At the same time, she's always felt like someone was watching her (spoiler: it was the Bureau).
That has made her paranoid and introverted. Most of her time in the game, she's by herself, and she spends a lot of this time having internal conversations with herself. At FH, I use thoughts in italic to establish Jesse talking to herself (or to Polaris), so apologies if that drives you crazy, but CANON MADE ME DO IT.
She is now comfortable enough on the island to at least discuss a... limited range of weird stuff she's seen back home, but she doesn't want to tell anyone in this place full of oddballs that she's technically the Director of a Bureau that locks up oddballs. Look, they're still in the middle of an alien invasion, she hasn't had time to change the rules, okay?
Anything else?
Control is a really weird Finnish videogame by Remedy Entertainment where you never know if you're going to be spending the next ten minutes putting on a walkman and heading into a maze to the sound of Finnish metal, fighting an anchor that spits clocks, chasing a video camera through a synthwave train chase, or, well.
Beyond the weird, it is the story of how generations of white men hungering for control broke the world, and how an awkward, insecure redheaded woman coming into her own and taking control might glue it back together again.
It had the fortune of coming out in a year without any obvious Game of the Year candidates and is thus rightly honored as one of the best games of 2019.
I love it, play it. Or just read her extended info post here.
Lucifer Morningstar
Lucifer: So what does it take to please You? Break Your rules and you fall, follow them and you still lose?! Doesn't matter whether you're a sinner! Doesn't matter whether you're a saint! Nobody can win, so what's the point? What's the bloody point?
I'm going to keep this shorter than Jesse's, since he's been around for a while. Lucifer hails from, well, Lucifer, a TV show that is at best an absolute funhouse-mirror-run-through-a-police-procedural-version of the DC Vertigo comic of the same name. They borrow some names, some vague character traits, and the idea of the Devil coming to Earth because he's tired of Hell, and that's about it.
Anyway, Lucifer Morningstar is the actual Devil, and he's been on Earth since about 2012. It's certainly not the first of his trips back to Earth - he has seen a lot of humans naked - but it has been the longest. Somewhere along the line, he fell in love with a police detective called Chloe Decker, but, well, she finally found out that the whole 'I'm the Devil' thing wasn't some eccentric rich British dude shtick but the actual truth, and she didn't handle it well.
He
After the BDE, he's slowly beginning to realize the power of friendship is actually working much better on that one.
Which is, of course, why he's taking off for canon in another week or so to solve some murders, attempt to heal the rift with his Detective, and wind up forced to go back to Hell to prevent demons from filtering not just into his Earth but Father knows where else.
He'll be back! Eventually. To deal with his shithead twin brother.
Beyond that, well. Lucifer's a kind of manic hedonist who never lies and who's barely/maybe/not-at-all/sometimes coping with the psychological trauma of a lifetime of neglect and ill-treatment by his divine parents. He's growing as a person. In his weird, narcissistic, emotionally unstable way.
He's immortal, invulnerable to human harm, can compell humans to tell him all their deepest desires, has some wings he doesn't like to look at, wears fancy suits, and is perpetually drinking alcohol that can't make him drunk because it's not strong enough.
That's about it.
