#dominique dipierro

[makkapakkap2158]

[nukbody]

Dipierro the woman you are

[stroopandroid]

F*ck YEAH!! Bitches!!!

[sniixnn]

the ignorance of female characters in mr. robot is insufferable and it takes everything within me not to say something about it

what do you mean you FORGOT darlene’s name, a main character implemented in the first few episodes who is integral to the plot to the very end? the very last scene. a character with extreme plot relevance and defining characteristics who happens to be female so she’s naturally disregarded by half of the fandom. but, of course, you can talk about other characters like mr. robot or elliot with perfect fluency. checks out

also if straight off the bat you say the only characters in mr. robot that you disliked were darlene, dom, and angela, i’m just going to immediately plug my nose and walk away because you need to do some serious reevaluation

and i’ve seen more people being odd about irving and whiterose’s relationship than i need to. whether it’s that half of the fandom who appreciate making a pun of the fact that whiterose is transgender or people who insist they are genuine avid fans of the show; a confirmed and explicitly stated relationship including a transgender character in media and your first interpretation is fetishisation. jesus christ

[janimatorbot]

Someone has definitely made this joke before but it's still funny

[moodswingsintorder]

what do you think about them?

[misscammiedawn]

Recently I've been introducing my girlfriend to Mr. Robot and last night, while watching season 2, I noticed something that made me love the show even more than I already did.

The subtle but intentional little bits of character development and motivation peppered into the show for sharp eyed viewers.

See, in season 2 we are introduced to Dominique "Dom" DiPierro, an insomniac/workaholic FBI agent who is part of the team investigating the 5/9 hack where our protagonists hackivist group managed to encrypt all of the credit and debt data for a banking system that covers 70% of the population.

I am also quite in love with her for obvious reasons (see my redhead best head tag)

During this episode she has traveled with her team to Beijing to investigate the Chinese arm of the hacking. The investigation is aided by Chinese Security Minister Zhang. Unbeknownst to the FBI, Zhang is a public face for the series villain Whiterose, a transgender woman who runs The Dark Army, a militant hacking group whose influence is felt throughout the show.

During a party Dom disappears from the party to "look for a restroom" and finds a room of clocks, an indicator/reminder to any audience member who is not aware yet that Zhang is Whiterose. After a brief discussion Zhang invites Dom to a bedroom and shows off a closet full of beautiful outfits.

She even invites Dom into her philosophy on time travel and parallel universes which becomes a major factor in understanding her motivations throughout the show.

(Incidentally this scene is lit in golden hues, a sign for the show to indicate safety and trust. Both characters are in frame for the majority of the shots. This show famously tries to isolate characters in frame during conversations to show barriers and disconnect)

Whiterose says these are her sister's outfits and by the end of the episode Dom is informed that Whiterose does not have a sister.

In a later season she even says outloud "she was showing me who she was".

I wondered why the mastermind of the plot was willing to trust Dom so quickly and with no apparent gain and allow her to survive the attack on the FBI that would happen the next day. It wasn't because of her value as an asset as The Dark Army do not attempt to recruit Dom until season 3.

Then I watched the episode again yesterday and understood why.

First let's talk about Whiterose.

Whiterose is a transgender woman who lives in China, a place where she is unable to live openly as her authentic self. She is positioned both masked in the light of day (as Security Minister Zhang) and authentically in the darkness of her secret life (as head of The Dark Army, Whiterose) as having inordinate amounts of power. By this point of the show we have seen that the CEO of E(vil) Corp, Price, capitulates to her. Price is seen as the literal devil at this point of the show and has outright referred to himself as "Master of the Universe". Yet he is not above Zhang.

With all of her power she is unable to change the circumstances of injustice that she lives in and at this point of the show that is all we need to know about her. There is more but it is not for us to know at present.

Whiterose and Eliott are both trying to change the world that caused them so much pain. Whiterose wishes to forcibly alter the world. She believes that there is no method of changing the world as it is because at some point it went wrong and the only way to "fix" it is to literally jump into an alternate version of our world where circumstances were better. She is jaded to the point of which she believes there is no future, only a better version of the past. She fights to change the past.

Eliott, in spite of everything, wants to fight for a better future. He believes that he can give people the choice to live better lives if the ruling classes allowed for such change to happen.

This is a show about healing, after all. One wounded victim cannot accept a world of hurt and injustice and wants to go back and change things. One wounded victim cannot accept a world of hurt and injustice and wants to force the world to change for a better future.

It's a good show.

So why does Whiterose let Dom see her true self?

Dom is a lesbian and the show takes place in 2015. This episode takes place on June 26th 2015.

We do not know Dom's sexuality at this point of the show but we are later given the tools to unlock the secrets of this episode and conversation and to understand how Whiterose "clocked" her.

Earlier in the episode one of the characters, Angela, meets with a season 1 character in a bar. We see this playing on the television:

It's not the focus of the shot, but seeing the footage of the LOVE WINS balloons bouncing up and down will catch the eye. As will the rainbow colored whitehouse. It is on screen for about 8-12 seconds. SAME SEX MARRIAGE LEGAL even on the ticker.

DIRECTLY after this scene is the sequence of Dom and Whiterose meeting.

During this conversation Whiterose insists on knowing why Dom is an FBI agent and after obfuscating she tells her story:

"Final semester of law school, dating who I thought was the one. At dinner, days before graduation, they got down on one knee to propose, and (this is going to make me sound wacky) but I excused myself to the restroom and left out the back and that was that."

Notice the lack of gendered pronouns?

Darlene sure does in season 3 when she teaches the audience how a character in this show can hear that sentence and know what they are doing.

See these characters all know about masking and how it's done and so they catch those little tells. Darlene understood Dom's sexuality from just "On again, off again with someone but they're not really the one or anything like that."

Whiterose likely did digging on Dom before the meeting but both that conversation and the later reveal of how we, the audience, should decode her speech allows us to know Whiterose saw that Dom was in a relationship in law school that ended with her partner offering to marry her and that was the end of the relationship.

Whiterose knows what it is like to not be able to live as your authentic self (the reminder that the legalization of gay marriage JUST happened. Literally the day this conversation is happening) and saw an ally in Dom. Saw someone who understands what she feels and what she is fighting for. Whiterose consistently through the show is patient (a trait very unlike her) and kind with people she feels an empathetic bond with.

This understanding causes her to invite Dom to see "her sister's" outfits, knowing that the lie would not hold up very long. She just wanted someone who could see her for who she truly was to see her.

This show is about healing. It is about connection. It's about trying to be understood.

...and it legitimately is one of the best television shows that has ever aired.

I love it more than I can possibly put into words.

[mediademon]

MR. ROBOT - eps2.9_pyth0n-pt1.p7z

[ananke-xiii]

only 140 fics on ao3 for Darlene Alderson and Dominique DiPierro is actually insane. like, wdym??? she ruined her liiiiifeeeee, she fell for her because she's so touch-starved. like. dynamic of all tiiiiiiiime. sigh.

[at1r1-p4rk3r]

Im actually really proud of myself for this one

[makkapakkap2158]

Onto my first rewatch wish me luck dudes!!🙏

[loyoyox]

Mother!

[xony]

hear me out

equal rights for women will never truly be achieved until we have more female noir detectives

[eclecticelectriceccentric]

TRAGIC ROMCOM AIRPLANE MISHAP FOR THEM?!

[discoonthegrass]

For all intents and purposes, this is a Star Trek blog. If we want to get more specific, it's a K/S blog with a bunch of polls sprinkled in. However, I do watch, read, and yes, ship other things... And I'm curious if we share some of those interests. So that's why I'm asking:

PLEASE tell me in the tags if we have shared interests 🙏

(I am also a Jayvik and Caitvi shipper but didn't manage to fit that in...)

[mediademon]

GRACE GUMMER as Agent Dominique DiPierro in MR. ROBOT