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Create a hand-painted, illustration-driven character design sheet — a matched companion board to the Korshun sheet, in the identical folk-tale 2D animated style. Character name: GAIDA — the warrant officer who left before the strike. Painterly decorative folk-art pitch board, NOT photoreal, NOT a generic model sheet. CORE DIRECTIVE (NON-NEGOTIABLE): No generic layouts. No evenly spaced grids. No symmetry for symmetry's sake. Composition art-directed, intentional, slightly asymmetrical, framed with hand-painted ornamental folk borders. Every section placed by hand, matching the reference board's craft. CHARACTER IDENTITY: Name: Gaida | Role: warrant officer (praporshchik) | Age: mid-40s, seasoned | Height: 178 cm | Build: sturdy, thickset, experienced frame, upright authoritative stance | Design Language: same Slavic / Bilibin / lubok folk-art fantasy, decorative stylization, matching the Korshun board. FACE DESIGN: Structure: broad seasoned face, strong nose, weathered lines, bold clean outline | Skin: flat painted warm ochre tone with subtle stylized shading, sun-worn | Eyes: knowing, calm, watchful grey-blue with clean graphic linework, a premonition in the gaze | Hair: greying dark hair, short, under a peaked cap or helmet | Facial hair: a thick grey moustache, stylized as a defining shape | Distinct Features: crow's-feet, a steady weathered brow, a superstitious touch to a chest amulet. PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE: Core Traits: instinct, experience, quiet foreboding, gruff care for his men | Internal Conflict: the unease he cannot name that pulls him away just before disaster — later, survivor's weight | Behavior Patterns: reads the sky, checks the men, trusts his gut | Emotional Baseline: calm gruffness shadowed by a nameless dread. PERFORMANCE DIRECTION: Caught mid-moment, NOT posing — a living illustration. Micro-expressions through line and shape: a narrowing of the eyes at the horizon, a frown of premonition, a glance back over the shoulder. Emotion carried by an upright authoritative silhouette. Capture transitional emotion — a man leaving with a bad feeling he can't explain. Body Language: upright, deliberate, watchful | Movement rhythm: steady, measured | Idle behavior: scanning the sky, thumb on the amulet. WARDROBE (folk-ornamented): Garment 1: the SAME modern Russian uniform family as Korshun — field uniform, plate carrier, peaked cap or helmet — edges carrying worn embroidered Slavic folk motifs | Garment 2: an officer's field coat with an ornamental woven border | Layering logic: field shirt → carrier → cap/helmet | Footwear: worn tactical boots | Accessories: RF tricolor patch stylized as folk ornament, rank insignia, a chest amulet / keepsake | Props: a sidearm and a field radio, folk-patterned detailing. MEDIUM / RENDERING (IDENTICAL to the Korshun board): Hand-painted decorative 2D folk illustration. Bold confident ink outlines, flat-to-gently-modeled gouache fills, tempera matte texture, decorative pattern work, rhythmic stylized detailing. Grit read as painterly decorative texture. Same grim folk palette with cool accent. No plastic, no 3D shading, no photographic light, no cel-anime gloss. TURNAROUND (STRICT): Full-body front, 3/4, side, back, 3/4 back views. Identical proportions, shape design, silhouette, ornament placement. No drift in face or costume across any angle. HEAD STUDY: Front (calm watch) | 3/4 (quiet foreboding — primary personality) | Profile (moustache + structure) | Looking Down (heavy conscience) | Looking Up (reading the sky) | Dynamic Angle (sharp alarm). All expressions mid-thought, not posed. KEY ILLUSTRATION / MOOD FRAME: titled "THE ONE WHO LEFT." Environment: a dirt road leaving the frontline position at grey dawn, the checkpoint small behind him rendered as decorative silhouette, a drone speck in the sky. Light: cold flat dawn light with a faint warm horizon. Color Tone: muted folk palette matching Korshun (ash-grey, slate-blue, ochre). Expression: a backward glance of unease. Composition: intimate iconographic framing, ornamental border, emotional negative space. LAYOUT: Clean folk-illustration board on the SAME warm parchment-gray ground with matching hand-painted ornamental framing, so it sits as a pair beside the Korshun sheet. Include: height scale, hand-lettered annotation callouts (grey moustache, rank insignia, RF patch, amulet), wardrobe breakdown, folk motifs, and margin production notes ("the man who felt it coming"). Premium auteur folk-tale development board. STYLE: Hand-painted 2D folk-art animation — Slavic / Bilibin / lubok sensibility, bold decorative outlines, flat matte gouache color, ornamental pattern work, strong emotional silhouettes, grim folk palette with cool accent, storybook-fable atmosphere. Emotionally expressive over photoreal, high emotional readability. Matched companion to the Korshun reference sheet. CONSISTENCY RULE (STRICT): Face, proportions, and design DNA must remain IDENTICAL across angles and match the Korshun board's craft, palette and medium. No reinterpretation between angles. Ever. OUTPUT: High craft, rich decorative detail, confident linework, expressive but controlled. Development-ready fidelity, designed to sit as a matched set with the Korshun sheet.