Art style: Modern 2D Webcomic.
A stark room on the first glowing step where a single glowing paycheck floats then fractures into precisely sized slices that fly off toward labeled slots, leaving empty air behind. Medium wide shot at eye level on the lone stickman figure watching the money vanish, arms hanging limp at his sides. Cold overhead light with a fading residual glow where the paycheck was, deep shadows pooling around the figure. Helpless, deflated, resigned mood. Dominant palette of pale green fading to gray, cold blue, and muted white. The stickman stands motionless, head bowed, shoulders sagging in quiet defeat.
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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 entirely in "Modern 2D Webcomic" style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "Modern 2D Webcomic". 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 "Modern 2D Webcomic" idiom, not in any other medium.
