History Characters / RemedyConnectedUniverseFBC

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''VideoGame/{{Control}}''
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Brig Bennett

* InkSuitActor: Looks like her actress, Brig Bennett, only with white hair.

* NiceGirl: [[SociallyAwkwardHero Lack of social skills]] and HatesSmallTalk aside, Jesse generally tries to be kind and polite to those she speaks to. When they’re not trying to kill her anyway.

* UnwittingPawn: ''[=AWE=]'' heavily implies that [[spoiler:the entire Bureau was written into existence by Alan Wake as part of him playing TheLongGame in order to get Jesse Faden to become enough of a badass to help him escape from The Dark Place and finally defeat the Dark Presence once and for all]].

* OrganizationWithUnlimitedFunding: They have facilities across the globe, a massive staff, and near endless resources for coverups and research. A document from Trench notes the FBC and their annual budget is "another line in another spreadsheet" to the US Treasury as long as it isn't an obviously bloated request.
* PragmaticHero: The FBC as a whole are willing to cross moral boundaries, break laws, and sacrifice lives in the name of keeping the world safe from the paranatural. Sentiment will get you killed -- that's "Bureau 101" according to Emily Pope.

* OhCrap: His reaction when he's told [[SomethingWeForgot he forgot to send a replacement for Agent Phillip Philson, who has been staring at the Arctic Queen for more than 24 hours straight since the Hiss invaded]]. He defends himself by noting he's been rather busy with all the ''other'' emergencies under his purvey.

* FlunkyBoss: [[spoiler:A hoard of Hiss show up to assist him against Jesse and Wells.]]

* DefiantToTheEnd: Lopez, alone against an overwhelming hoard of Hiss soldiers, goes down firing as she gives a final warning to anyone who goes looking for her.

* ClarkKentOutfit: During [[spoiler:his final message, detailing his interaction with Hedron,]] he's only wearing boxers and turns out to be surprisingly ''jacked'', [[spoiler:with Thomas Zane complimenting his physique and calling him "swole" during their encounter]]. [[spoiler:Hedron is apparently changing him in some way which has him [[NakedNutter frequently shedding his clothing]]; it's never mentioned if the muscles are related or not.]]

** [[spoiler: ''Alan Wake II'' has revealed he's somehow ended up in the Dark Place, and [[AmbiguouslyEvil Zane]] has approached him with an offer of artistic collaboration.]]

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* NonIndicativeName: Don't let the name fool you. The Federal Bureau of Control doesn't really control anything. It ''contains'' things, but often not for long, there's constant implications it exists at the mercy of the Oldest House, the Board, and whatever eldritch forces are at play - even one of the benign beings it "controls" is there willingly. Even Director Trench says that their main purpose is to expand what humanity knows about unreality. Files mention that this is intentional; when the IRS or other government budgets start looking for things to cut, they'll overlook an agency with a simple name and purpose (as far as the Federal government is concerned, the FBC just helps transport other agencies around) suddenly asking for more budget.

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* UngratefulBitch: After Jesse fights through the entire Threshold for her research, as well as fight [[OptionalBoss Mold-1]], she is more concerned about Mold-1 being dead before she studied it then Jesse herself. Even when Jesse gives her the sample she needed from Mold-1, she only briskly instructs Jesse to go find the escaped Mold Hosts remaining in the FBC, without as much as a thank you.

* EscortMission: The journey to get him back to Horowitz is one of these, though less grating then most examples, as he is [[GameplayAllyImmortality invincible]] and can [[DrawAggro draw the Hiss away from you.]]

* CowboyCop: The FBC equivalent. She notes several times the way she is handling the situation at Bright Falls is far from official protocol and highly risky. However, she is reasonable enough to recognize saving the world from "the worst AWE since Eagle River" is more important then mindlessly following training.

* OddFriendship: He seems to be much fonder of Jesse then any of the previous Directors. Implied to be because, the unlike the rest of the Bureau, she's willing to look past his quirks, isn't as domineering over the paranatural as with Northmoor and Trench, and she genuinely appreciates his help.

* ElementalMotifs: With water, representing cleaniness, purity and mystery. He shares the same name [[spoiler:(and implied to be)]] with a Finnish god of water, he is usually seen moping the floor and near a body of water. In ''Alan Wake II'', he is first seen in the town of Watery, and at the climax [[spoiler:before he lets Alan back into the Dark Place]], he acknowledges how he shares this water-symbolism with the Dark Place. This establishes Ahti as the GoodCounterpart of the Dark Presence, which uses the negative aspects of water.