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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 visible from head to feet, standing upright and centered — Tommaso, the late café owner, a Sicilian man in his late fifties, warm olive skin weathered by sun and years, a broad kind face with deep smile-lines, heavy-lidded dark brown eyes, a thick salt-and-pepper moustache and short greying hair combed back. Stocky, sturdy build with slightly rounded shoulders and strong worker's hands. He wears a cream collarless shirt rolled at the sleeves, a long dark apron tied over grey wool trousers, with a small brass café key hanging at his waist, and scuffed brown leather shoes. His expression is quietly warm yet melancholic, a faint knowing half-smile, standing inside his dim shuttered café among stacked chairs and a cold espresso machine, muted amber light falling across 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.