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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 — a weathered Sicilian man in his late forties returning from fifteen years of exile. Olive Mediterranean skin, lean sinewy build, a hard square jaw shadowed with several days of grey-flecked stubble. Dark brown hair swept back, greying at the temples, deep tired eyes under heavy brows carrying old grief and quiet resolve. He wears a creased charcoal-grey wool overcoat over a dark open-collar shirt and worn trousers, a weathered leather suitcase in one hand, a small brass key clenched in the other. Scuffed brown leather lace-up shoes on cobblestones. Guarded, unsmiling expression. Setting: a narrow shadowed Palermo backstreet at dusk, 1987, shuttered façades and dim lamplight behind him. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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.