Art style: 2D Hand-drawn.
Full-length view, the entire figure visible from head to feet, standing upright, centered — a young man in his mid-twenties named Friend, Neo's blunt, straightforward companion. Warm medium-tan skin, an open oval face with honest wide-set brown eyes, thick straight eyebrows, a broad easy grin showing teeth, and short tousled dark-brown hair with a slight cowlick. Average athletic build, relaxed posture, one hand casually tucked in his pocket, the other giving a half-shrug as if speaking plainly. He wears a plain olive-green crew-neck t-shirt, an unbuttoned soft grey flannel overshirt with rolled sleeves, slim dark denim jeans, and scuffed white low-top canvas sneakers. A simple leather-strap watch on his wrist. He stands on a sunlit city sidewalk near a café doorway, expression frank and unguarded, mid-conversation.
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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:
Classic 2D hand-drawn animation, clean expressive outlines, simplified shapes, soft cel shading, illustrated backgrounds, traditional animated-film aesthetic.
Every surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in this idiom.
