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Platinum is Lesser X Daddy Gene. The Daddy gene is found in the Lesser and normal sibs produced by a Platinum X Normal pairing. Pairing a Lesser with Platinum in its lineage to a normal sibling with Platinum in its lineage may give you Platinum. Breeding a Platinum to a Lesser carrying the Daddy gene may also give you platinums, lessers, BELs, and normal carriers...it's complicated.
You over complicated it.

The "Daddy"/"Hidden"/"sib" gene is just another allele in the BluEL complex. A Platty is basically a really dirty BluEL. It is a combo of Lesser and "Daddy"/"Hidden"/"sib" in the same manner that the MysticPotion is a really dirty BluEL combo of Mystic and Mojave.

A Platty bred to a normal gives you Lessers and what RDR calls "sibs". These "sibs" carry the "Daddy"/"Hidden"/"sib" gene, none of the Lessers carry the gene or they would be Platty. Breeding a "sib" back to any other het BluEL has the potential to give rise to a "Daddy"-type combination that is dependent on what the non-"sib" parent is. That is why RDR got ButterDaddy when he bred a Butter to a "sib" and Phantom44 (RDR's name for the Phantom/"Daddy" combo) when he bred a Phantom to a "sib". Neither the Butter parent nor the Phantom parent in those crosses had any relation to the PlattyDaddy so the "Daddy"/"Hidden"/"sib" allele came only from the "sib" parent.