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[[WMG:At the end of ''Whistleblower'', [[spoiler:Miles has at least partial control over the Walrider]]]]
[[spoiler:Not only the Walrider comes just in time to save Waylon from Blaire, but the possessed Miles, seen from afar by Waylon before running away in Miles's jeep, doesn't seem to display aggressive intentions, and he may have just wanted to be sure that still sane (and in one piece) man, whom he noticed having a camcorder like him, managed to escape and spread the truth. Either Miles' mind has positively influenced the Walrider, or Miles is fighting with all his strength to keep him in check.]]

[[WMG:Related to the above, [[spoiler:the Walrider]] will be an unexpected ally in a sequel]]
If Miles [[spoiler:is managing to keep the Walrider in check, he may have gone into hiding and planning to go after Murkoff's people, using his powers at his advantage. A future protagonist, be it Waylon or someone else, may be finding him or herself saved several times by the Walrider, even if it'd still be a quite violent and unstable ally, and will probably have to deal with equally strong foes created by other experiments.]]

In Miles's case he would be an athletic, [[MenAreTough Alpha Male]] type who despite not being prone to physical altercation is very capable of athletic feats and withstanding a ''ton'' of physical abuse. This is someone who's been thrown from several stories multiple times and ''survived'' with minor injuries, and also made long jumps with little effort and has successfully outrun scores of Variants trying to kill him. In fact, his only noticeable injuries in the entire game are his missing fingers, and the only sign of his physical deterioration is right at the end of the game [[spoiler: when he becomes possessed by the Walrider]]. This would stipulate that his body has a high tolerance for physical punishment and he is in good physical shape. Also related to his Alpha Male personality is his increasingly aggressive notes. They show his consistent mental deterioration from the horrors he's experienced, but they are laced with anger, apathy, and the promise of violence. Miles also slams doors shut in an aggressive manner, and the player has to be careful to make Miles close them more quietly. Taking his physical prowess and his Alpha Male nature into consideration, it was really no wonder[[spoiler: that after being possessed by the Walrider that he turned the tables on the entity and began ''controlling'' it]].

By the end of the series, [[spoiler:Sam Miller's career and reputation are destroyed]]. There are noticeable similarities between the two. Namely, they share a physical build, they both drive a Jeep Wrangler and both are an IntrepidReporter, eager for the next big story and willing to go the length for the information.

2) The government brings its full force down upon Murkoff, shutting it down completely and the corporation quietly whithering and dieing in the wind, the villain of the sequel being either the final remnant and/or a splinter group created in case Murkoff goes down and continuing to do research. While this outcome is original, what with an evil corporation getting its comeuppance, its unlikely as well as the same thing happened to Umbrella in ResidentEvil, and its doubtful the creators would want to bring in parallels to that other franchise.

** [[spoiler: You seem to be assuming the Walrider has it's own mind, which is most certainly questionable. We've only seen it controlled by a drugged-out, broken, mentally-insane man, so of course it would act erratically, but nowhere in the story is it implied that the Walrider is particularly difficult to control or direct, only that most people are unsuitable for it.]]

** Although when we see Waylon naked, he's actually quite muscular and hairy, so he can't be purely a pretty boy bishi.

So even if we can't see Miles and Waylon's faces, based upon their personalities, their physical capabilities, and how other people react to them there can be a basis for what they look like. Because of his aggressiveness and his athletic prowess, Miles could appear by a stereotypical physically fit Alpha Male type of man. And because of his subdued nature and the "reactions" he gets from other men in the Asylum, Waylon could be a mentally grounded and intelligent "pretty boy" type of man.

Their facial scars look similar...guess when we got that scare of him looking at us through the bookshelves, he was just switched to a personality that didn't want to harm us?

Remember the three patients Miles finds watching TV? They don't move, don't attack; they just focus on the TV playing white noise. Two documents in ''Whistleblower'' refer to the transfer and potential of three patients labeled the "lucid dreamers." [[http://outlast.wikia.com/wiki/Beyond_Hope The first document]] mentions their being prepped for transit and Wernicke's focus on Billy Hope distracted from the true discovery; [[http://outlast.wikia.com/wiki/Three_Blind_Dreamers the second document]] is the transfer authorization for those three "lucid dreamers." Guess who just happens to be missing when you come through that TV room again as Waylon Park?

[[spoiler:Not only the Walrider comes just in time to save Waylon from Blaire, but the possessed Miles, seen from afar by Waylon before running away in Miles's jeep, doesn't seem to display aggressive intentions, and he may have just wanted to be sure that still sane (and in one piece) man, whom he noticed hav ing a camcorder like him, managed to escape and spread the truth. Either Miles' mind has positively influenced the Walrider, or Miles is fighting with all his strenght to keep him in check.]]

I mean, c'mon, aside from the Walrider reanimating the dead, there's no other explanation as to why Miles was loaded full of lead in the end of ''Outlast'', yet he appears none the worse for wear at the end of ''Whistleblower''.

A document in ''Whistleblower'' reveals that all the female patients and personnel at Mount Massive were moved elsewhere due to particularly adverse effects the Walrider was having on them. In another document also in the DLC, a doctor asks a colleague about the possibilities of experiments on women. So, a future episode may center on that relocated female ward.

[[spoiler:If Miles is managing to keep the Walrider in check, he may have gone into hiding and planning to go after Murkoff's people, using his powers at his advantage. A future protagonist, be it Waylon or someone else, may be finding him or herself saved several times by the Walrider, even if it'd still be a quite violent and unstable ally, and will probably have to deal with equally strong foes created by other experiments.]]