Proof that the remaining 10% is worth binding yourself to an Object of Power for.
These are recommendations made by tropers for Control Fan Fics, all of which have to be signed to stay on the page. After a few samples, you will be able to note the interests of the tropers recommending them, and judge whether you might be also interested in a certain 'fic.
General Fics
Grow Brighter
by KipRussel- Recommended by: Wiry Ailuropodine
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: One day, Dylan wakes up. Dylan's room feels very big and very small. Unseen, confidential, but extremely exposed. Jesse tries not to wonder how they kept Dylan contained. She really tries not to wonder what the Hiss did to break him out. Jesse is Director now. She has to make sure that never happens again. Do whatever she can.
sound like a needle by zealotarchaeologist
- Recommended by: Wiry Ailuropodine
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: Dylan lets the Hiss in.
The Tusks of the Elephant by bioluminesce
- Recommended by: Wiry Ailuropodine
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: Jesse and Polaris, on five steps of their journey.
- Recommended by: Wiry Ailuropodine
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: Jesse stares down a picture of herself. Not a photo, a painting. The painted Jesse has a solemn expression, an American flag behind her, hair in a practical ponytail. "And they told me I'd never amount to anything." She shakes her head, sets off at a comfortable jog back towards Pope's hideout.
Around One Constant by Ostentenacity
- Recommended by: Wiry Ailuropodine
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: Assorted eyewitness accounts of the events of AWE-24 B, October 29, 2019. Or: Three Bureau employees describe what is was like to be in the Oldest House during the invasion.
Ordinary Girl by The_Unqualified1
- Recommended by: EvilerThanThou
- Status: On-going
- Synopsis: In a world where both Jesse and Dylan were taken by the Bureau. Unlike in canon, Dylan was more-or less hands-on taught to become the new Director and took over when Trench retired. Meanwhile, Jesse is treated less like a person and more like a juvenile delinquent with limit range in the Oldest House, having been taken in by Ahti as a member of the janitorial staff. Through her empathy towards Altered Items, the kindness of a few people and luck, Jesse ends up solving many of the same problems as her canon-counterpart. Basically it would be like if Control was more of an RPG and you played as Jesse in the Oldest House without the Hiss invasion during the first part.
- Now has its own page.
Shipping Fics
cynosure by zealotarchaeologist- Recommended by: Wiry Ailuropodine
- Pairing: Jesse Faden/Emily Pope
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: As in, a guiding star. As in, that which serves to direct. As in, the subject of attention and attraction.
New Girl by mortimermcmirestinks
- Recommended by: Wiry Ailuropodine
- Pairing: Jesse Faden/Emily Pope
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: It wasn't terribly unusual to see a new face around the office - the Bureau was a place of work, just like any other, and there were new hires occasionally. However, it dawned on Emily as she noticed the mopping figure that it was, in fact, unusual to see a new face... in a janitor's uniform.
- Now has its own page.
Dream Diving with Emily Pope by Sitriga
- Recommended by: Lexithelesbian
- Pairing: Jesse Faden/Emily Pope
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: Emily left a report on Jesse's desk, but she was too tired to read the thing. She fell asleep almost immediately afterwards, on the usual couch. Her dream, however, was far from usual: she saw herself in a familiar glass cage in the Panopticon, wearing grey pajamas with P7 written on them. One of Emily's reports becomes an altered item that apparently transports people to other realities in their sleep. When everything goes wrong and Jesse is left in a coma along with Dylan, Emily takes it in her own hands to dive in and get her back...
this is a love song (so what?) by Rain13121
- Recommended by: Lexithelesbian
- Pairing: Jesse Faden/Emily Pope
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: "Cause there is something, and there is nothing. There is nothing in between" It's been a few months now. The Hiss are getting desperate. They're clawing at the doors and Emily can't sit idly by anymore, can't hide while people die. Time to take a page out of Jesse's book. Jesse vehemently disapproves.
The Other Woman by TakeControl5
- Recommended by: Lexithelesbian
- Pairing: Jesse Faden/Emily Pope, Emily Pope/Original Character
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: The Hiss are finally defeated for good (Yay!) but Jesse finds out that Emily has a girlfriend (boo!)
- Recommended by: EvilerThanThou
- Pairing: Jesse Faden/Emily Pope
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: What would happen if Jesse was the one who was taken in by the FBC instead of Dylan? What would Jesse be like in that kind of environment?
Crossovers
light & power by Nemonus- Recommended by: Kipbug
- Crossover with: Alan Wake
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: “Cynthia Weaver,” says Jesse. “I’d like to offer you a job.”
Altered Arcadia by LexitheLesbian
- Recommended by: EvilerThanThou
- Crossover with: Life Is Strange
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: Jesse Faden, Director of the FBC, has finally eradicated the Hiss and lifted the lockdown. She wanted desperately to finally, finally, relax and take a break from everything, but an alert of an AWE paused her plans. Why did they receive the notice six years too late? Who was involved in the Event? Why was it so similar to the Ordinary Event? There are always too many questions for her, but Jesse's determined to make sure no one is hurt like she and Dylan were ever again.
Arcadia Bay AWE by Rogue_Demon
- Recommended by: EvilerThanThou
- Crossover with: Life Is Strange
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: Ten Years after the storm that destroyed their childhood home, Max Caulfield and Chloe Price have finally moved onto the next stage of their Lives. An enticing Job for a big employer in NYC for Max, and Chloe... making it up as she goes along. The two of them have carved out a relatively normal existence, that is until a chance encounter brings Max’s power back to the forefront and reveals to the pair that Max was never the only one with powers, and that maybe she was never destined for a mundane existence in a world where her perception of normal was despite being slightly abnormal, paled in comparison to reality.
- Now has its own page.
- Recommended by: ANotSoRealTroper
- Crossover with: SCP Foundation
- Status: Completed
- Synopsis: Jesse Faden meets Foundation Antimemetics Division chief Marion Wheeler, then they join forces against an explosive combination of paranatural anomalies from both their realities.
