[Lighting: cinematic]
Art style: Modern 2D Animation.
A medium close-up of Meddie (a copper coin-boy) sitting alone at a school desk in an empty classroom, holding a small black dictaphone with a triumphant smirk. In the blurred background, Ricky (a golden coin-boy) stands frozen, his face showing visible shock and fear. Strictly NO background people.
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FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt):
Render this image entirely in "Modern 2D Animation" style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "Modern 2D Animation". Keep the subject, composition, camera angle, lighting direction, and colour palette from the description above — but EVERY surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in the "Modern 2D Animation" idiom, not in any other medium.
