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Tomás Reyes-Cole
Deep-dark faction leader
A beekeeper who lost both his legal records and his husband in 2048. Tomás argues that visibility is not rescue: for people who have already been corrected out of the world, being found may simply invite a more efficient form of erasure.
Connections
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Tomás does not abandon the Deep-dark principle when he helps defend the Daylight effort. The settlement preserves the right of some communities to remain uncounted by declaration, turning absence from the model into a protected choice rather than an administrative failure.