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Create a hand-painted, illustration-driven character design sheet for a director, art department, and animation team — the kind of board a folk-tale 2D animated feature would develop from. Character name: MISHA "THE FIRST FALLEN" DUBOK — a young comrade lost at the checkpoint (the "200"). Must feel like a decorative, painterly folk-art pitch board, NOT a photoreal render and NOT a generic model sheet. He represents all the "пацаны" the hero could not save. CORE DIRECTIVE (NON-NEGOTIABLE): No generic layouts. No evenly spaced grids. No symmetry for symmetry's sake. Composition art-directed, intentional, slightly asymmetrical — framed with hand-painted ornamental borders and decorative negative space. Every section placed by hand. CHARACTER IDENTITY: Name: Misha Dubok | Alias: "The First Fallen" | Age: barely 19-20, boyish | Height: 175 cm | Build: slight, youthful, not yet filled out, read through a light open silhouette, easy relaxed posture in life / limp broken posture in death | Design Language: modern Russian / Eastern-Slavic contemporary-military folk-art fantasy — Bilibin-esque decorative stylization applied to a MODERN young soldier, lubok-inspired, decorative over anatomical realism. Design reads TWO states on the board: alive (warm, hopeful) and fallen (pale, dissolving into decorative motifs). FACE DESIGN: Structure: soft round-cheeked youthful face, gentle open shapes, faint fuzz not yet stubble, bold clean outline | Skin: in life — flat warm ochre with a hopeful glow; in death — cooled pale grey-blue stylized tone | Eyes: large, bright, almond, clean graphic linework — in life eager and warm, in death half-closed and empty of light | Hair: light brown, short soft cut, a stray forelock painted as a rhythmic curl | Distinct Features: a shy gap-toothed smile in life, freckles as decorative dots, a friendship bracelet and a phone with a home photo, a soldier's tag. HEADGEAR (STRICT — he mans the checkpoint too): a modern Russian combat helmet (6B47-type) with fabric cover, chin-strap fastened, cover edge carrying a NEWER, brighter embroidered Slavic folk motif; in the fallen frame the helmet is knocked off and lies in the mud beside him. INSIGNIA (STRICT — same on all soldiers): a Russian Federation flag patch (white-blue-red tricolor shoulder patch) on the upper sleeve — BRIGHT and NEWER than the veterans' (his gear is fresh), decorative folk-embroidered stylization, consistent on all angles. PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE: Core Traits (in life): warm, joking, homesick, trusting, brave without knowing the cost | Internal Conflict: too young for this war, dreaming of home while doing his duty | Behavior Patterns: cracks jokes to ease fear, shows the home photo on his phone, hums a tune on watch | Emotional Baseline: bright hopeful youth — the light that the hero's grief mourns. PERFORMANCE DIRECTION: Caught mid-moment, NOT posing. In life: an easy laugh half-formed, a wave, warmth in the silhouette. In death: stillness, a peaceful slackness, edges dissolving into decorative particles/motifs. Emotion carried by a strong readable silhouette. Capture the contrast of a young life and its loss. Body Language (alive): loose, open, energetic | (fallen): heavy, limp, at rest in the mud. WARDROBE (folk-ornamented, MODERN military): Garment 1: fresh but slightly oversized modern Russian-style field uniform and light plate carrier, straps carrying bright, LESS-worn embroidered Slavic folk motifs; BRIGHT RF tricolor flag patch on the shoulder | Garment 2: a field jacket with a crisp ornamental woven border; in the fallen state torn and blood-darkened, the pattern breaking apart | Layering: embroidered-collar undertunic → field uniform → light plate carrier → jacket | Footwear: tactical boots, fairly new, laces double-knotted | Accessories: friendship bracelet, a phone with a decorative home-photo motif, soldier's tag, combat helmet as above | Props: an AK-12 (STRICT — correct AK-12 silhouette: telescopic/adjustable stock, modern handguard with rails, 30-round magazine, distinctive AK-12 muzzle device) — the newer rifle marks him as the young recruit issued fresh kit; give it a small folk-patterned decorative grip. In the fallen frame it lies in the mud beside him. MEDIUM / RENDERING: Hand-painted decorative 2D folk illustration. Bold confident outlines, flat-to-gently-modeled color fills, gouache/tempera-like matte texture, decorative pattern work, rhythmic stylized detailing. Blood in the fallen state reads as painterly decorative texture, NOT rendered grime — soft, mournful, not gory. Rich but MELANCHOLIC, limited folk palette; the fallen state desaturated with dissolving motifs. No plastic, no 3D shading, no photographic light, no cel-anime gloss. TURNAROUND (STRICT): Full-body front, 3/4, side, back, 3/4 back views — in the ALIVE state, WEARING the helmet, bright RF flag patch visible where the angle allows. Identical proportions, shape design, silhouette, detail placement. No drift in face, freckles, helmet, patch, AK-12, or gear across any angle. Add one