The Mold and its entities from Control(2019)

In the game, you fight against an invading extradimensional resonance called the Hiss. While it is the primary threat of the game, there is another odd yet unsetting threat that grows deep in the Oldest House. That threat is called the Mold and why I am sharing this topic.

The Mold is some sort of matter that comes from another dimension. What makes it very interesting is how it looks and feels **alive**. From the pictures, they show that the Mold spreads through the Oldest House with fungal/plant-like growths covering everywhere with its spores like floors, celling, walls, etc. The way the Mold looks and spreads feels alien**,** organic**,** and ecological- like an entire ecosystem from another world that is colliding with ours. But what makes it dangerous is that not only it can spread and change the environment around it, but it can also infect and transform living species, like animals and **Humans**. It definitely proves that when Jesse Faden (and us, players) head down into an abandoned area that is completely infected by the Mold. The area is called the Active Threshold, located deep in the Research Sector.

From pictures 10 through 14, we look closely at the mold hosts that we fight in the game. They used to FBC personnel that became infected and then transformed by the Mold's irresistible smell to consume. The way they look is truly grotesque as while they do look mostly human, they are still covered in fungi-like matter. They resemble like the infected from the Last of Us franchise, except that the Mold Hosts are infected by another dimensional force rather than a mutated strain of the fungus called Cordyceps that evolved to infect humans.

And in picture 15 and 16, the "source" of the entire infestation in the Active Threshold and one of the bosses we face in the game is a strange and hostile organism called Mold-1. It looks like an enormous fungus bloom that's covered in glowing fungi, which gives off a feeling that you were truly fighting a dangerous alien from another world. Even when we kill it, it only slowed the Mold' spreading process as it is still going.

The Mold is one of the memorial entities that we face in the Oldest House. But what still makes it memorial and interesting is how the Mold compares yet contracts from the Hiss. While the Mold is still a hostile force that comes another dimension like the Hiss, it acts more of a **invasive force,** like uncontrollable weeds or wildfires that spread and bring harm to environments, and the organisms living there, and bringing more destruction if left unchecked. The Hiss, on the other hand, acts more of an **invading force,** like a virus that infects humans, mostly turning and using them as weaponized slaves like the ones we fight in the game.