Composer Petri Alanko frames Dylan as an 'involuntary hero' who chooses to become one before he even knows it — and the music carries that ambiguity.
Played forward, the melody belongs to Jesse. Reversed, it becomes her brother's.
Petri Alanko, composer on Control Resonant, has walked through how he developed Dylan's theme song, and the method turns out to be unusually literal for character scoring. Instead of writing a brand-new motif for Jesse's brother, he started from her own theme and effectively turned it around. Dylan's track, in his words, "is essentially Jesse's theme backwards." The two siblings thus share one piece of musical DNA: the sister's identity stated plainly, the brother's expressed as its inversion.
Alanko pairs that construction with a pointed reading of the character. "Dylan is an involuntary hero, although he chooses to become one, he just doesn't know it in the beginning," he explained.
The description matters because it gives the reversed theme a narrative job rather than a purely technical one. A protagonist whose heroism arrives as a choice he makes before he can recognize it is, in musical terms, a figure whose meaning depends on direction — and a theme that only reads correctly in reverse embodies exactly that. It is also a lesson in economy. One melody serves two characters; the design work sits not in new material but in how a single idea can be flipped to carry a second identity. Listeners may register the kinship between the siblings long before they could articulate why.
Few scoring decisions state a relationship this directly. By building Dylan's theme as a mirror of Jesse's, Alanko binds the brother and sister at the level of raw melody — two readings of the same music, much as he presents Dylan as a hero seen from an angle he doesn't yet recognize as his own.
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