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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 cobblestone street at dusk. A weathered Sicilian man in his late forties, lean and wiry, medium height, with a sun-worn olive complexion, deep lines around tired dark-brown eyes, a prominent nose, sharp jaw shadowed by greying stubble. Short dark hair combed back, flecked with grey at the temples. He wears a long charcoal wool overcoat open over a rumpled dark shirt, loose tie, trousers, and scuffed brown leather lace-up dress shoes. One hand rests in his coat pocket, the other half-holds a small brass key. His expression is guarded, haunted, watchful. Behind him, shuttered storefronts, a weak streetlamp, and distant mountains frame the quiet, tense alley. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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.