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Art style: Cinematic Realistic. A vertical 9:16 composition of a desolate, rain-slicked mega-city under a bruised purple sky. Physical anchors: a collapsed rusted steel overpass in the immediate foreground, a gargantuan obsidian skyscraper with pulsating red circuitry in the midground, and a cluster of jagged, dark skyscrapers silhouetted in the distant background. Elias Thorne stands on the edge of the overpass, screen-left, facing screen-right toward the obsidian tower. A swarm of chrome, multi-eyed insectoid drones hovers in the gap between the overpass and the tower. The camera is at eye level, side-on to Elias, using a 35mm lens. Elias's hand grips a rusted railing, the metal flaking under his touch. The lighting is cold and oppressive, with the red glow from the tower casting long, sharp shadows across the wet concrete. Thick smog and ash swirl in the air, catching the light. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt): Render this image entirely in "Cinematic Realistic" style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "Cinematic Realistic". 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 "Cinematic Realistic" idiom, not in any other medium. Character identity reference (face, age, build and clothing only): - Elias Thorne: Elias Thorne, a weathered man in his mid-40s, former tech architect turned resistance leader. Lean, wiry but hardened build, broad shoulders slightly hunched from fatigue. Angular face with sharp cheekbones, deep-set grey eyes, a healed scar cutting through his left eyebrow, short salt-and-pepper beard, close-cropped dark hair greying at the temples. Olive-toned skin, creased and dust-smeared. He wears a worn charcoal tactical jacket over a faded grey shirt, reinforced cargo trousers, a utility belt with improvised tech gear and a holstered sidearm, fingerless gloves, and scuffed heavy combat boots. Standing alert in a dim underground bunker lit by flickering screens, jaw set, determined and tired expression, one hand resting near a cracked tablet. The SCENE description determines the cast, number of people, actions, setting and framing. Include every character it calls for together in this scene; do not turn it into a solo character portrait.