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Freddy-Inspired Nightmare Horror Portrait

Create a nightmare-stalker portrait with simulated burn-scar makeup, a distressed fedora, striped knitwear, costume claw details, and ember-orange lighting.

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Inputs
reference_image (image) · Required signature (text) · Optional · Default: Blaire
Outputs
nightmare_stalker_portrait (image)

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Using the image above as the facial reference. Maintain exact facial structure, proportions, features, and expression with consistent identity. With small written signature ${signature:Blaire} on the bottom right part. 
Ultra-realistic supernatural slasher-inspired horror portrait, square 1:1 aspect ratio, chest-up close-up, dark studio with dramatic ember-orange and deep-red lighting.

SUBJECT & IDENTITY:
Create a fictional adult woman inspired by classic nightmare-horror aesthetics, with a worn fedora, striped knitwear, and realistic simulated burn-scar makeup. If a reference image is supplied, preserve the adult subject's identity and facial proportions. The appearance must be created through theatrical prosthetics, not actual injuries.

POSE & CAMERA ANGLE:
Her torso leans slightly toward the camera at a three-quarter angle. Her left shoulder is closer to the lens, with her upper body angled as though she has stepped into the viewer's space. One gloved hand rises near the camera, fingers gently curled and separated, creating natural foreground perspective. The other hand stays lower near the chest. Keep the neck and shoulders anatomically plausible. Her chin is slightly lowered, while her eyes look up beneath the fedora brim.

EXPRESSION:
An intimidating, controlled stare with narrowed eyes, subtle tension in the brow, and a restrained half-smile. Her lips remain naturally shaped. The expression should communicate menace without extreme facial distortion.

HORROR MAKEUP & PROSTHETICS:
Create realistic theatrical burn effects on one side of the forehead, cheek, and jaw using layered silicone-style appliances, dark rose-brown pigments, muted maroon shading, and subtle raised textures. Add fine healed-scar patterns, irregular edges, and realistic blending into surrounding skin. Avoid raw wounds or excessive gore. Use charcoal eye makeup, natural skin pores, and understated dark lip color. The prosthetics must show realistic highlights and shadows rather than looking like melted plastic.

HAIR:
Dark chocolate-brown hair, mostly concealed beneath a worn brown fedora. Style the visible sections in messy, slightly wavy strands around the ears and neck. Add a few natural flyaways illuminated by the warm rim light. The hat should have realistic felt texture, a creased crown, and a worn brim.

OUTFIT:
A distressed red-and-dark-olive striped knit top with realistic yarn fibers, uneven wear, and natural folds across the chest. Add a dark leather-look shoulder detail and a few antique-metal embellishments. One hand wears a textured dark glove with subtle metallic claw-inspired decorative tips, clearly designed as costume accessories.

NAIL ART:
On the visible ungloved hand, use long almond-shaped charcoal-black nails with distressed bronze tips and fine ember-red detailing. Keep the nails integrated naturally with the fingers.

BACKGROUND:
A nearly black studio background with a deep burgundy gradient. Use a warm orange backlight behind the hat and a restrained crimson edge light along the shoulder. Introduce a very subtle atmospheric haze resembling distant embers, without visible flames.

LIGHTING & CAMERA:
A diffused key light from camera-right illuminates the eyes and prosthetic textures. Use a low-intensity frontal fill, warm orange backlight, and controlled red rim lighting. Canon EOS R5, RF 85mm lens, ISO 100, 1/200 sec, f/2.8. Keep the nearest eye in crisp focus and preserve detail beneath the hat brim.

ANTI-AI REALISM:
Natural facial asymmetry, authentic skin pores, realistically blended theatrical scars, believable hat-fabric interaction, individual knit fibers, accurate finger joints, realistic glove seams, and physically consistent warm light reflections. Preserve the texture of real photography.

NEGATIVE PROMPT:
cartoon, anime, illustration, CGI, video game render, plastic skin, melted wax face, excessive gore, open wounds, exposed tissue, oversized costume claws, extra fingers, missing fingers, fused fingers, broken wrists, distorted shoulders, floating hat, fake knit texture, completely black eyes, blurry pupils, oversaturated orange, flat lighting, text, watermark, logo, collage, multiple people, full-body shot, landscape composition.

FINAL OUTPUT:
One fictional adult female nightmare-stalker character with realistic simulated burn prosthetics, a distressed fedora, striped knitwear, a forward-leaning pose, and cinematic ember-orange and crimson lighting.

Parameters

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${signature:Blaire} signature Default: Blaire

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