Can I get your hc's on all the Control character's identities?? I loved your hc for Dylan so 👉👈
Awe thank you! Most of these head cannons stem from “they give me ___ vibes” + me doing more character analysis vs giving head cannons lmao. This gets kind of long but please I want to talk more about these characters so reply to this post of send me a message I love this game so much!!!
Jesse: Lesbian. No real questions there. In the beginning I was getting a lot of bi vibes from her too though, so I like to head cannon that maybe she did date men at one point and even was bi but by going based off of the game and how we know her I think she has more lesbian energy.
Emily: I see Emily as a (surprise surprise!) lesbian as well. Maybe it’s my need to ship her with Jesse (y’all what’s the ship name??), but I also want to head cannon Emily as ace. Not too sure why to be honest but yeah!!
Arish: Because he’s one of my favorite characters I ofc have to self-project onto him and head cannon him as the gayest gay to ever gay. I’m joking.... but I do think he is either bi or pan?? I also head cannon him as a trans man but like I said before that’s just me self-projecting lmao
Langston: Another of my favorite character’s (his monologue in the AWE DLC makes me smile) but I honestly have so many conflicting head cannons for this guy it’s not funny. On one hand I feel like he could be straight?? but I also do not get straight vibes from him at all. So, I like to think that maybe he’s in the middle of questioning himself and trying to figure himself out - or even maybe he just Does Not Know™ and doesn’t want to know. That’s one of the reasons why he puts so much of himself into his work because OF COURSE O.O.Ps and the like are SO much easier to understand than figuring himself out. On the OTHER hand, I like to head cannon Langston as being both aro + ace as well as an nonbinary. Kind of polar opposite to what I said before but at the same time I feel like he feels more connected with the O.O.P.s than really anyone else? And to add onto that I don’t feel like he would acknowledge gender or really think much of it.
on a completely different topic I feel like Langston and Darling are two sides to the same coin - or maybe two opposite extremes? Not sure which example fits better but they are super similar except Darling being kind of bad while Langston is just being... well Langston? I don’t know maybe a post for another day unless someone else wants to make it (and @ me so I can read it 👀)
Underhill: I also head cannon Underhill as ace, but I think a lot of that is the beginning of a fungi joke. Besides that, I head cannon her as a trans woman like really hard. I’m aware this isn’t an uncommon head cannon in the community, but I really like it and feel like it fits her a lot.
Dylan: Okay so I’ve already expressed my thoughts on Dylan being nonbinary, maybe a demiboy idk, and I really do feel like his narrative fits one of him getting a chance to figure himself out post game. Every time I try to write up something to explain how I feel about Dylan I keep getting off topic lmao, I’ll have to do a separate post. What I want to say is that his life pre-game is literally a shit show. Whether you love or hate Trench, Darling, and/or the FBC - they fucked this kid up more than the Ordinary incident probably did. By the time we get to post-game, I feel like Dylan is thrown through this situation where he gets a chance to start over somewhat. He no longer has this pressure, these expectations no matter how good or bad they are, and now has somewhat of a support system (even if it’s just Jesse) he’s finally able to figure himself out.
With all of that being said I feel like because he no longer has these expectations to be anyone, to be anything, and with that he might just reject being anything period. Just let him fucking exist without some other power trying to get to him please ffs.
Darling: I hard head cannon him as pansexual tbh. I feel like with him working as the head of research his understandings of... well everything... he just cannot find it in him to deem one person more attractive than another bases on gender or sex at birth?? Also, Darling screams Theater Gay™ especially based off of the Dynamite video.
Trench: Okay I will be honest and say how I don’t know much about Trench. He was always that character that I wanted to know more about but never did. I feel like Trench is the guy who’s like gay? or bi? but if you ask him, he says he’s 100% straight. Maybe he’s in denial? Maybe he’s closeted? I don’t know but I feel like a big part of it is because he’s a little bit afraid of getting close with people again. This gets into the entire ordeal with his daughter and ex-wife, the trauma it was to be the cause of his daughter’s death which resulted in him being alone, I imagine he never forgave himself for it which is why he distanced himself from Dylan as much as he did as soon as he felt some kind of connection forming. He’s not a bad guy, but he lets his past haunt him to a point where he seems so cold and closed off. I do feel like he is bisexual though, while he rejects the connections and relationships from the people around him you can tell he still wants them. His relationship with Darling being a good pointer to that thought whether or not you ship them or think of them as just friends.
