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A retiree who thinks spacer pilots are too young to know they're overconfident and too old to admit they'll crash eventually. He travels anyway—the company of other pessimists is better than solitude.
AI portrait prompt: solo character portrait of a single man, head and shoulders, cinematic photorealistic portrait, sharp detailed features, dramatic studio lighting, plain neutral background, highly detailed, realistic skin texture, mixed-race features, medium brown skin, middle-aged with some gray, short and round-faced, a deck-hand spacer in a worn practical vac-suit and rigging, with a practical well-worn finish, sleek corporate mercantile styling, minimal polished lines with gold and neon accents, opulent and faintly corrupt. A retiree who thinks spacer pilots are too young to know they're overconfident and too old to admit they'll crash eventually. He travels anyway—the company of other pessimists is better than solitude.