SkunkyArt | UnknownSpy — Control Design Guide (description outdated)

A control chooses their appearance when they are created, and can modify it slightly when they respawn. Their mass must remain the same; ie. a control cannot develop four new arms without first taking that mass away from another part of their body.

Similarly, controls choose their pronouns. Physically they are genderless.

A control gains a new eye upon respawn. The number of eyes a control has equates to the number of times they have died.

When they die, controls lose a portion of their memories. These memories can be absorbed by anyone, so long as both of them have at least one eye, and the control hasn't respawned yet. (Viruses and bugs can also pick up memories; Loadings are capable of it, but typically don't.)

If a control loses a limb, they lose a portion of their memories.

Every control has at least one colour in their design; their eyes, saliva, tears, and blood are all the same colour, and cannot be black/white/gray. Controls can have up to three colours in their design, including their eye colour. They can also have black, white, and gray accents on their design. (A control with no eyes or scars can appear monochrome [black/white/gray], but their blood/tears would have colour.)

A control's pupils can be a colour other than black. (Eye and pupil colours cannot change in different eyes, however; ex. one black pupil and one red pupil, or one blue eye and one green eye.)

Controls don't sleep, though they do need to rest if they expend a lot of energy.

Controls are able to summon a floating screen which connects them to the System's equivalent of the "internet," allowing them to store items, change outfits, contact other controls, etc.

Because of the way they are created, controls do not have physical genders, nor the capacity for romantic love. Likewise they do not have families; parents, siblings, cousins, etc. are concepts that do not exist in the Media Controls world.