Art style: Cinematic Realistic.
Full-length view, the entire figure visible from head to feet, standing upright, centered — a calm, confident man in his early fifties, the story's narrator. Warm olive skin, a strong lived-in face with a broad forehead, deep-set steady hazel eyes, well-defined cheekbones and a firm jaw softened by a neat salt-and-pepper short beard. Thick greying hair swept back. Tall, solid, upright build with squared shoulders. He wears a tailored charcoal-grey wool overcoat over a dark knitted sweater and dark trousers, hands loosely at his sides, brown leather lace-up shoes. Serene, reassuring expression with a faint hopeful smile, chin lifted slightly. He stands on a quiet open plaza at golden dusk, distant low buildings and a soft sky behind him, gentle warm light on his face.
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FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt):
Render this image entirely in "Cinematic Realistic" style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "Cinematic Realistic". Keep the subject, composition, camera angle, lighting direction, and colour palette from the description above — but EVERY surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in the "Cinematic Realistic" idiom, not in any other medium.
