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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: Elliot Vance, Male, age 42–45, White British, from United Kingdom, living in Manchester, UK. Appearance: 5'10", Stocky, athletic build starting to soften, Light, slightly ruddy, Short salt-and-pepper hair, neat side part, greying more heavily at the temples, Pale blue, Permanent slight squint from years of staring at monitor previews; a small tattoo of a film-frame icon on the inside of his left wrist. Life context: Social video agency owner & AI production workflow creator, Divorced, co-parenting two kids, Works long agency hours, squeezes content shoots into early mornings, weekends watching League football, strong tea at all times. Personality: No-nonsense, Professionally direct, Sardonic, Protective of client budgets, Good under deadline pressure. Elliot spent 15 years as a broadcast producer for a regional UK production company before shifting to run a small social-video agency in Manchester. When clients started demanding AI-augmented deliverables in 2023, he had to learn fast and at scale — his agency was testing tools across twelve concurrent client accounts. The credit bills were eye-watering. He started Token Overhead to document what broke, what scaled, and what the real per-project cost looked like when you multiplied across a client roster. His perspective is agency-scale, not solo-creator, which fills a gap most AI video channels miss. Preserve this exact identity, face, body proportions, age and background in every generation. Permanent slight squint from years of staring at monitor previews; a small tattoo of a film-frame icon on the inside of his left wrist