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Edit the provided reference image while preserving the character’s overall identity, facial structure, body proportions, clothing and realistic photographic appearance. Do not redesign the character completely. Change the facial expression and gaze first: make his eyes much more deep, intense and penetrating, with a calm, serious, slightly mysterious expression. He should look directly toward the camera with a strong, thoughtful gaze, as if he is carefully observing the viewer. Avoid a smiling or friendly expression. Make his facial appearance more distinctly Central Asian / Kazakh-Mixed Asian, while keeping it subtle and realistic rather than stereotypical. The face should look like a natural mix of Kazakh / Central Asian and East Asian features with a slight Turkish-Mediterranean influence. Keep the face unusual and slightly awkward rather than conventionally handsome. Preserve the distinctive unconventional facial proportions: slightly elongated narrow face, high forehead, prominent cheekbones, slightly oversized almond-shaped dark eyes, unusual eye spacing, long prominent nose, relatively small mouth and chin, subtle natural facial asymmetry. The combination should look strange, memorable and slightly disproportionate, but completely photorealistic. Keep the small sparse reddish-brown mustache and the small reddish-orange freckles across the nose and cheeks. Change the hairstyle completely to a distinctive old-fashioned straight bob / bowl haircut inspired by the hairstyle of 19th-century Russian literary portraits: medium-length straight dark auburn-brown hair, rounded silhouette, hair reaching approximately to the ears and slightly below them, thick straight fringe across the forehead, slightly uneven and awkward, with a vintage 19th-century literary character feeling. Do not make it modern, fashionable or Korean-style. Place the character in a professional white cyclorama studio. The entire background must be clean, seamless pure white, like a premium e-commerce/catalogue photography studio. No interior, no furniture, no props, no visible horizon line. Professional studio photography, soft diffused lighting, realistic skin texture, visible pores and freckles, natural shadows, high-end camera quality, ultra-photorealistic, sharp facial details, realistic hair strands. Important: preserve the character’s body, outfit, pose and general composition from the original reference image. Only modify the gaze, facial ethnic features, hairstyle and background. Do not beautify the face or make him look like a conventional fashion model. The character must remain noticeably unusual, awkward and highly recognizable.