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Art style: dark neon photorealistic cinematic live-action, rain-soaked night city, shallow depth of field, wet reflective surfaces, high contrast horror lighting. SETTING: A narrow, claustrophobic wet neon alley deep in a rain-drenched megacity at night, flanked by dark dripping brick walls, dumpsters, tangled fire escapes and puddled asphalt that mirrors the neon above. COMPOSITION & CAMERA: High-angle vertical wide shot looking down at a young man lying flat on his back on the glossy black asphalt, his body centered along the vertical frame, the alley walls converging above him. LIGHTING: Cold cyan and magenta neon spill from an unseen sign, low key, high contrast, deep shadows swallowing the alley edges; a single flickering overhead light stutters. MOOD & ATMOSPHERE: Desperate, vulnerable, abandoned — the aftermath of violence. CHARACTER ACTION & EXPRESSION: Kai lies wounded on his back, one arm reaching weakly upward, fingers splayed toward the sky, face contorted in pain, mouth open pleading, eyes half-lidded and glassy. A dark spreading stain of blood mixes with rainwater and runs in thin rivulets across the reflective ground. COLORS: Near-black base, cold neon cyan and magenta, with dark crimson blood diluting into pink runoff. TEXTURES & MATERIALS: Mirror-wet asphalt, slick brick, oily puddles, the sheen of rainwater over skin. DEPTH & LAYERS: Foreground — Kai's outstretched trembling hand catching neon light; midground — his wounded body and blood-rain runoff; background — the dark far end of the alley with a distant glowing sign and a chain-link fence. WEATHER & PARTICLES: Relentless heavy rain falling in vertical sheets, splashing off his chest, ripples expanding in the puddles, cold breath-fog escaping his lips. MICRO-DETAILS: Individual raindrops exploding on the asphalt, neon reflections quivering in the blood-tinted water, a dropped phone glowing faintly nearby with a cracked screen, steam rising off a distant vent. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt): Render this image entirely in "dark neon photorealistic cinematic live-action, rain-soaked night city, shallow depth of field, wet reflective surfaces, high contrast horror lighting" style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "dark neon photorealistic cinematic live-action, rain-soaked night city, shallow depth of field, wet reflective surfaces, high contrast horror lighting". 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 neon photorealistic cinematic live-action, rain-soaked night city, shallow depth of field, wet reflective surfaces, high contrast horror lighting" idiom, not in any other medium. Brand guidelines: Brand color palette: #0B0F1A near-black (base), #E7E7E7 paper (text / documents), #FFB000 amber (evidence highlight only). Use these colors prominently in the composition. WARDROBE LOCK — authoritative. Render each character in EXACTLY this outfit, matching their attached reference image. This OVERRIDES any clothing, fabric, texture or colour word describing a character anywhere else in this prompt — do NOT invent other garments: - Kai Renner: black hooded rain jacket with ribbed side panels, unzipped, dark grey ribbed crew-neck shirt, black cargo pants with thigh pockets, grey and white sneakers (black messenger bag with front compartment worn crossbody; black fingerless gloves; ribbed texture on jacket sides)