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REFERENCE: use the first reference image ONLY for the drawing look (dirty charcoal grunge ink graphic, soot, ink drips, cold blue-grey with orange ember rim glow) and the second reference only for the world's mood. Do NOT copy any character, lettering or bell. CHARACTER: a character design sheet of 6 distinct satirical archetype figures standing in a row, full body, 3/4 view, each tall and thin: 1 a chef in a tall chef's hat holding a huge ladle; 2 a guru coach with a headset microphone, arms spread in a preaching pose, wearing a tight turtleneck; 3 a film director with a megaphone and a folding director's chair under his arm, wearing a beret-like cap; 4 a fashion designer holding gigantic tailor's scissors, draped in a dramatic oversized coat; 5 a professor in a gown wearing a tower of stacked eyeglasses on his blank face and holding a stack of books; 6 an oligarch in a fur-collared coat seated on a very tall stool like a throne, hands on a cane. ALL six have the same smooth, blank, grey clay-like round head with NO eyes, NO nose, NO mouth, NO stitches (empty shells, bodies without souls), and their clothes are partly built from crumpled paper receipts and barcodes. No top hats, no clerical collars. Clearly different silhouettes and props, readable at small size. SCENE: dark smoky burnt square background, faint orange embers at their feet, cobblestones. ACTION: all stand or sit still, slightly slouched, arrogant posture. CAMERA: flat even orthographic-style lineup, full bodies visible, 16:9. LIGHT: dark grey ambient, soft cold white top light, orange ember rim light from below. MOOD: arrogant, empty, satirical. DO NOT CHANGE: no faces, no text, no letters, no logos, no yellow or gold color, no red, orange only as embers, no cigarettes.