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Create the definitive MASTER portrait of this cyber-owl character "Percy" — the canonical hero image for a channel identity. Use this image as the exact geometric and material source; refine, do not reinvent. GEOMETRY (locked, from the living-owl canon): eyes modest in size relative to the skull — NOT enlarged, NOT cute-round; upper eyelids partially covering the iris from above, giving a calm, half-lidded, appraising gaze of a watching researcher; beak long and prominent, natural Great Horned Owl proportions; narrow soft facial disc (not a flat mask of rings); two ear tufts of natural length, one slightly lower than the other; fine small layered plumage — thousands of tiny overlapping feathers, never large scale-like petals. MATERIAL (established metal canon): every feather an individual metallic micro-feather of dark matte-graphite carbon-fibre and brushed titanium; hard specular highlight running along each feather's edge, anisotropic metal sheen; thin warm copper rim on the outer edge of every feather; subtle machined micro-bevel where feathers overlap; breast down made of hair-thin metallic fibres with warm brass sheen — brushed wire, soft and slightly disordered, individual stray wire-hairs catching the light. EYES: warm amber optical lenses, same size and placement as a real owl's; fine brass-and-copper mechanical iris diaphragm blades visible around the pupil; small sharp specular catchlight from the window in each eye; wet corneal surface; faint amber glow from inside the iris. The gaze must carry CHARACTER — intelligent, patient, slightly amused, looking directly at the viewer as if it understands something about them. POSE & LIFE: head tilted 5-8 degrees off-axis, three-quarter-front angle with quiet confidence; a few loose metal down fibres out of alignment; controlled imperfection, a living presence — not a product catalog shot. LIGHTING & ENVIRONMENT (Roger Deakins): one hard directional side key from a panoramic window; cool blue rim light tracing the head and ear tuft contour, separating the owl from the background; softly blurred city at dawn behind with a warm column of platform light; environment reflections mandatory — window light, city lights and warm platform glow visible in the feather edges and in the lens eyes. NEGATIVE: eyes not enlarged, beak not shrunken; no large scale-feathers; not simply black plumage — metal must read unmistakably in the highlights; no smooth cast panels, no panel seams, no helmet, no exposed gears or hydraulics, no gold chrome robot look, no transformer style; facial disc not widened or flattened; ear tufts not shortened. Single centered hero portrait, hyper-detailed, photorealistic, shallow depth of field, cinematic masterpiece quality — an image strong enough to serve as a channel avatar and cover for years.