Art style: Anime.
Full-length view, the entire figure visible from head to feet, standing upright, centered — "Volk" ("Wolf"), a Russian Special Operations Forces (SSO) major and squad commander, a fictional soldier about forty. Lean, hardened athletic build, broad shoulders, weathered Slavic face with sharp grey eyes, a short salt-and-pepper beard, close-cropped greying hair, a faint scar over one brow. Calm, iron-steady expression, decisive and watchful. He wears multicam combat fatigues with knee pads, a loaded plate carrier with pouches and radio, fingerless gloves, a helmet pushed up with night-vision mount folded on the brow, a slung carbine held low across his chest. Scuffed tactical boots laced tight. He stands in a dark war-torn Latakia street at night, rubble and low haze around him, scanning the shadows protectively.
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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:
2D anime cartoon animation — cel-shaded illustration, bold clean black outlines, flat anime shading, hand-drawn anime look with anime facial features and stylised non-realistic rendering of objects, food and environments. NOT photorealistic, NOT live-action, NOT a 3D render, NOT real footage.
Every surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in this idiom.
