#dominique dipierro

[makkapakkap2158]

Onto my first rewatch wish me luck dudes!!🙏

[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.

[antlerqueer]

Mr. Robot (2015-2019). 410 Gone.

[mediademon]

GRACE GUMMER as Agent Dominique DiPierro in MR. ROBOT

[loyoyox]

Mother!

[trans-angela-moss]

[I'm not including Elliot, because if I did, I know Elliot would win 😮‍💨]

[1derfulmadness]

Man Darlene sleeping with Dominique to get what she needs for the plan feels sooo much worse than when she slept with that random guy in season one. Like I know as fbi she’s the bad guy, but she’s so lonely and awkward I feel bad for her.

[zeiskyte]

Play the Hero (Mr. Robot)

Elliot and Elias Alderson are like any other set of twins—trading places, finishing each other’s thoughts, and dreaming of saving the world. When their personal vent comic goes public and ignites vendettas—both old and new—their quest for justice turns Funwell University on its head. As tensions grow and the stakes continue to rise, this might just be their hardest semester yet…

Read here!

[makkapakkap2158]

S4 ep 10 of Mr Robot is so good I'm really happy Dom and Darlene got on that plane together

[eclecticelectriceccentric]

TRAGIC ROMCOM AIRPLANE MISHAP FOR THEM?!

[loumauve]

rules: make a poll with five of your all-time favorite characters and then tag five people to do the same. see which character is everyone's favorite.

tagged by: nobody, bc I'm a heathen who just steals poll setups and then ignores the rules. feel free to participate as well (tho I think a lot of my pals have already done this one, I have been living under a rock called dissociation from terrible circumstances)

I went with explicitly emotional support characters because otherwise the list would be even longer. I have too many faves. the more time you spend in fandom spaces the more the collection grows. I'm sure I'm forgetting some minor character faves from other books/shows/movies/games. rip I'll prob cry once I remember them and feel bad

[antlerqueer]

Mr. Robot (2015-2019). 410 gone.

@lgbtqcreators creator bingo - layout & typography; anniversary gif meme 8 lgbtq+ relationships (2/8)

[mediademon]

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

[delioncunt]

they’re deadass gonna make me watch 40 minutes of dominique dipierro

[procyo9]

⭐️ OCs as other characters ⭐️

Tagged by: @quaddmgd and @imaginarycyberpunk2023

Rules: take this quiz and share 5 (or more! or less! the world is your oyster!) results from the top 50 that you feel really fit your oc(s). if you don’t recognize very many from the top 50, feel free to expand into the top 100

Elegy

Ciri (The Witcher): 90%

Darlene (Mr. Robot): 88%

Lilo Pelekai (Lilo & Stitch): 86%

Misato Katsuragi (Neon Genesis Evangelion): 86%

Sabrina Spellman (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina): 84%

Wyldstyle (The Lego Movie): 82%

Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood): 82%

Jane Margolis (Breaking Bad): 81%

Princess Fiona (Shrek): 81%

Spike Spiegel (Cowboy Bebop): 80%

Cybil

The Joker (The Dark Knight): 88%

Mr. Robot (Mr. Robot): 86%

Theodore 'T-Bag' Bagwell (Prison Break): 85%

Tokio (Money Heist): 84%

Darlene Snell (Ozark): 83%

Sid Phillips (Toy Story): 83%

Ryuk (Death Note): 83%

Marla Singer (Fight Club): 82%

Selina Kyle (Gotham): 81%

Ringo (Pulp Fiction): 79%

Stereo

Kurisu Makise (Steins;Gate): 93%

Mikasa Ackermann (Attack on Titan): 93%

Dana Scully (The X-Files): 91%

Riza Hawkeye (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood): 91%

Genos (One Punch Man): 91%

Dominique DiPierro (Mr. Robot): 90%

Dr. Wendy Carr (Mindhunter): 90%

Sailor Mercury (Sailor Moon): 88%

Rei Ayanami (Neon Genesis Evangelion): 87%

Mike Ehrmantraut (Better Call Saul): 86%

Tetsu

Janis Ian (Mean Girls): 89%

Stitch (Lilo & Stitch): 86%

Ruth Langmore (Ozark): 85%

Vi (Arcane): 85%

Toph Beifong (Avatar: The Last Airbender): 84%

Max Rockatansky (Mad Max: Fury Road): 82%

John McClane (Die Hard): 79%

Jesse Pinkman (Breaking Bad): 78%

Jimmy McGill (Better Call Saul): 78%

Murphy MacManus (The Boondock Saints): 78%

Tagging: nobody this time! But if you see this and want to participate, feel free to say I tagged you lol (this was so much fun sjkhgjksf)

[ratprophetistfordism]

This is a very nice post, beautiful transition.

But why she look like Dominique DiPierro?

First day of life up until 6th grade 

Jumped all the way to Freshman year of High School

Then I cut my hair Junior year, why did I do that

Slowly it started growing back and then….

I finally felt comfortable to express myself (the picture on the left was my debut)

At this point in my transition I am 6 months into HRT

A year on HRT

Over a year and a half on hormones. My transition hasn’t been the clearest path but I am so happy that I am on it.