Art style: Dark Fantasy.
Full-length view, the entire figure visible from head to feet, standing upright on all-fours-then-rearing, a battle-hardened stray tabby tomcat centered in a muddy sunken pit. Broad muscular frame, dense grey-brown fur with dark bold mackerel stripes, matted and dirt-streaked. Scarred face — a torn notched left ear, an old diagonal scar across the muzzle, a milky half-blind eye, the other eye a sharp amber slit glaring with cocky insolence. Thick neck, broad chest, powerful shoulders, heavy paws with worn claws half-extended, long tail lashing. Whiskers bent and broken. He bares fangs in a defiant snarl, one paw raised mid-swipe. The pit walls of wet dark earth and gnarled roots rise around him, cold overcast light spilling from above onto his rough coat. Paw pads cracked, no clothing, feral and dangerous.
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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 Fantasy" style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "Dark Fantasy". 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 Fantasy" idiom, not in any other medium.
