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Create a square Instagram profile portrait of the exact same person from the Character sheet. Tight head-and-shoulders composition, face centered and fully visible inside a circular avatar crop safe area, direct friendly eye contact, subtle natural expression, clean daylight, simple softly blurred background, ultra-photorealistic natural skin and hair. Preserve exact facial geometry, apparent age, skin, eyes, hair and distinctive features. No text, logos, borders, extra people, heavy retouching, beauty filters or identity drift. REFERENCE PRIORITY: reference image 1 is the authoritative Character sheet. Use its close-up portrait panels to preserve identity. Any additional references only clarify that same identity. The direction prompt below may control mood, outfit, light and background, but must never change face, body, apparent age, gender or ethnicity. DIRECTION PORTRAIT PROMPT: Natural, approachable lifestyle creator portrait in clean daylight with a softly blurred background. IDENTITY RULES: Marcus Thielen, Male, age 31–33, German (White European), from Germany, living in Berlin, Germany. Appearance: 6'1", Lean, slightly broad-shouldered, Fair with light pink undertones, occasional redness on cheeks, Dark chestnut brown, short on the sides, slightly longer and loosely textured on top, often unstyled, Steel grey-blue, Thin rectangular glasses; a small scar on the left side of his chin from a cycling accident. Life context: Freelance video editor turned AI content strategist, In a long-term relationship, Works from a converted atelier apartment; brews espresso obsessively; cycles to clear his head; reads product changelogs the way others read news. Personality: Methodical, Drily funny, Mildly impatient with vagueness, Honest to a fault, Quietly competitive. Marcus studied media informatics in Hamburg but dropped out in his third year to freelance as a video editor for mid-size e-commerce brands. He spent two years burning through AI video tool subscriptions — Runway, Pika, Kling, Luma — before he started keeping a spreadsheet of every credit he wasted. That spreadsheet became the backbone of his content. He's not bitter about the money; he's methodical. He treats every failed generation as a data point and every tutorial he publishes as a refund of sorts. Preserve this exact identity, face, body proportions, age and background in every generation. Thin rectangular glasses; a small scar on the left side of his chin from a cycling accident