Art style: Dark Cartoon.
Gage is a two-year-old boy with pale, almost translucent skin that looks cold to the touch. He has messy, damp blond hair and bright blue eyes that appear glazed and distant. He is dressed in bright blue denim overalls over a small, striped long-sleeve shirt, both of which are heavily stained with dark, wet earth. His most disturbing feature is a wide, unnaturally fixed smile that reveals small, white teeth. He stands at the top of a dark staircase, clutching a polished, silver surgical scalpel in his tiny hand, looking both innocent and deeply malevolent.
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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 "Dark Cartoon" style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "Dark Cartoon". 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 "Dark Cartoon" idiom, not in any other medium.
