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Art style: stylized 2D graphic-novel animation, cinematic neo-noir, letterboxed 9:16, hard chiaroscuro light with deep blacks, muted earthy teal-and-amber palette, film grain over flat fills, static camera with in-frame motion. Full-length view, the entire figure of Matteo Rinaldi visible from head to feet, standing upright and centered on a rain-dark Palermo backstreet at night, cracked cobblestones and shuttered stone facades filling the sides. A weathered Sicilian man in his late forties: lean, wiry build, olive skin, hollow cheeks, strong jaw shadowed by short greying stubble, deep-set tired dark eyes, a faded scar through one brow. Dark wavy hair combed back, flecked grey at the temples. He wears a long charcoal wool overcoat over a rumpled white shirt and loosened dark tie, worn leather gloves, and scuffed black leather dress shoes. One hand grips a small brass key; expression guarded, grief and quiet menace held tight. Collar turned up against the damp. Hard low light rakes across his face. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt): Render this image entirely in "stylized 2D graphic-novel animation, cinematic neo-noir, letterboxed 9:16, hard chiaroscuro light with deep blacks, muted earthy teal-and-amber palette, film grain over flat fills, static camera with in-frame motion" style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "stylized 2D graphic-novel animation, cinematic neo-noir, letterboxed 9:16, hard chiaroscuro light with deep blacks, muted earthy teal-and-amber palette, film grain over flat fills, static camera with in-frame motion". 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 "stylized 2D graphic-novel animation, cinematic neo-noir, letterboxed 9:16, hard chiaroscuro light with deep blacks, muted earthy teal-and-amber palette, film grain over flat fills, static camera with in-frame motion" idiom, not in any other medium.