Heh so I was right about the het pied at least. As fpr why I thought it was het pied, there was a theory that Graziani Reptiles has that the pied gene is so strong that even in hets it has some influenece, especially in leopards. There's a video where he shows two lesser leopards which were both possible het for pied. One looked like yours and the other didn't. His theory was that the het pied causes a pattern change, I don't know if he proved it out but I've seen the power of the pied gene in hets in champagne where majority of people don't even know that Corey Woods proved out that a champagne pied is a white snake. Personally, im confidant that your male is het pied at the minimum.