Art style: Dark Comic.
Vintage 1930s rubber-hose cartoon man, plain ordinary face, tired hollow eyes, simple shirt. Devolves across the story: begins as a relaxed pale adult, slowly becomes softer, rounder, smaller, infant-like and utterly blank. Muted desaturated colors, bold black ink outlines, heavy film grain, grungy paper texture. Dark satirical vintage cartoon.
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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 in the following art style:
dark graphic-novel illustration — gritty comic book art style, heavy black inking, bold outlines, detailed cross-hatching and dramatic shading. Exaggerated character features, intense expressions, deep wrinkles, highly defined musculature. High contrast lighting. Desaturated grim background colors (grays, browns) with stark contrasting pop-color elements. Satirical and edgy atmosphere, masterpiece comic art.
Every surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in this idiom.
