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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 Oyelaran, Male, age 29–29, Yoruba Nigerian, from Nigeria, living in Manchester, United Kingdom. Appearance: 6'1", Lean, broad-shouldered, Deep warm brown, Low-cut natural fade, tight coils on top, sharp temple line-up, Dark brown, A faint scar through his left eyebrow from a childhood fall; habitually wears a single small gold stud earring in his right ear. Life context: Freelance social video consultant, Early riser, tracks every subscription cost in a Notion spreadsheet, gym three mornings a week, cooks jollof on Sundays, rarely misses a model changelog. Personality: Methodical, Drily funny, Quietly competitive, Allergic to vagueness, Consistent. Marcus studied communications in Lagos before relocating to Manchester on a digital-media scholarship. He spent three years as a social video editor for a mid-size e-commerce brand, which is where he first started experimenting with AI generation — and where he first watched a client's budget evaporate on bad prompts. He now runs a one-person content consultancy and documents every credit he burns publicly, treating each failed generation as data rather than embarrassment. He built 'Render & Regret' precisely because he couldn't find a channel willing to show the receipt. Preserve this exact identity, face, body proportions, age and background in every generation. A faint scar through his left eyebrow from a childhood fall; habitually wears a single small gold stud earring in his right ear