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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 Diehl, Male, age 31–31, White / German, from Germany, living in Berlin, Germany. Appearance: 6'1" (185 cm), Lean, slightly broad-shouldered, desk-worker build, Fair with warm undertone, light stubble shadow on jaw, Dark brown, short on sides, slightly longer on top with a natural wave; sometimes pushed back with one hand out of habit, Grey-green, A small scar on the left eyebrow from a cycling accident; habitually wears frameless rectangular glasses. Life context: Freelance digital marketing consultant specialising in video ad production, Long-term relationship, Works from a rented studio apartment crammed with two monitors and a mechanical keyboard he's slightly too proud of. Cycles to a standing desk café twice a week. Rarely posts personal content — every frame is work.. Personality: Methodical, Drily funny, Low-key competitive, Frugal by principle not poverty, Allergic to vague claims. Marcus trained as a mechanical engineer in Stuttgart before pivoting hard into digital product marketing in his late twenties. He spent two years freelancing for SaaS startups, managing their video ad pipelines and quietly burning through three different AI video subscriptions trying to cut production costs. After a particularly painful $220 single-session credit loss on a botched long-form generation, he started documenting every failure in a private spreadsheet. That spreadsheet became Render Regrets. He doesn't hate AI video — he hates vague advice about it. His channel is essentially that spreadsheet made watchable. Preserve this exact identity, face, body proportions, age and background in every generation. A small scar on the left eyebrow from a cycling accident; habitually wears frameless rectangular glasses