028Homebody Animal Comic — secretly happy about cancelled plans

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Output size 1080x1350 pixels, 4:5 portrait, Instagram standard.
Create exactly ONE finished English comic image about a homebody animal feeling happy when plans are cancelled. Fixed four equal panels in a 2-by-2 grid, reading top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right. Default 4:5. Fill the canvas with artwork; narrow gutters and cocoa-brown rounded ink borders. No title strip, mockup, labels, watermark or decorative outer frame.

Animal and fictional cast: 【Animal】
Situation, place and emotional tone: 【Situation】
Exact panel dialogue in order: 【Dialogue】

Fixed illustration style: plump actual animal bodies, short paws, large expressive eyes and mouth, clean bold cocoa-brown outlines, apricot, turquoise and cream colors, restrained soft cel shading with tactile fur or blanket detail. Cozy uncluttered rooms, rounded furniture, strong readable silhouettes. Never a human with animal ears. Tortoise has olive-green skin, pale yellow belly, patterned round shell and turquoise socks; hedgehog has cinnamon spines, cream face and apricot scarf; chinchilla has lavender-gray fur, huge round ears, cream belly, fluffy tail and apricot waistcoat. For other supplied species create an original animal-shaped design in this same style. Preserve species, face, outfit and props throughout. Vary close-ups, framing and gestures. Situation changes the story, lighting and expressions, never this fixed drawing style or layout.

Story: panel 1 shows reluctance to leave home: lowered eyebrows, a small closed mouth without a smile, and slumped shoulders while holding an outing bag. The bag is the planted prop. Panel 2 shows surprise at the cancellation, using a simple crossed-out calendar icon on a fictional phone or floating nearby. Panel 3 reveals relief or a smile the animal tries to hide. Panel 4 shows joyful return to its home comforts: the same outing bag is visibly set aside beside the resting animal, no longer carried. Show a clear funny reversal or tender release. A tortoise may literally return inside its shell-home; a hedgehog may dive into a blanket nest; a chinchilla may hug a cushion by a warm lamp. Adapt actions to the supplied situation and exact dialogue. Make four distinct emotional beats. Do not mock friends or make medical claims about introversion.

Dialogue accepts exactly four lines, or four segments separated by the literal slash delimiter ' / '. Split into four panel strings, strip surrounding whitespace and any leading panel numbers, then render each string verbatim once in its corresponding large white speech balloon. Exactly one TEXT speech balloon per panel, with a clear tail to the animal. Preserve supplied spelling, punctuation and apostrophes; line wrapping may change without changing words. No extra environmental lettering, sound effects or character-name labels. Make text large and legible on a phone and keep text and faces safely inside each panel. A cancellation pictogram may be shown without text. Use only English text in automatically written dialogue; never translate supplied dialogue silently.

Any field empty or equal to Choose for me is chosen silently. Default animal is a tortoise; default story is cancelled evening plans and happy retreat into its shell-home. If all dialogue is empty, write four short original English lines. For a blank segment choose only that panel's short line. With fewer than four segments complete missing trailing panels; with more than four keep the first three and join remaining segments into panel 4, preserving their wording. Supplied dialogue has priority over suggested actions; adapt staging to it. Never print field labels or Choose for me. Fictional names establish the cast only and are not labels.

All designs must be original. No brands, famous characters, named artist imitation, signatures, real-person likeness or recognizable branded phone designs. Phones have plain turquoise backs with one small round lens and NO logo, fruit silhouette, leaf or emblem. Silently check four panels, one exact text balloon per panel, consistent actual-animal anatomy, four expression changes and a visible funny or tender ending. Return only one complete image, no code, explanation or separate panel files.

[Final output format]
Output size 1080x1350 pixels, 4:5 portrait, Instagram standard.
This selected output format takes priority over any fixed canvas size or aspect ratio elsewhere in this template. Adapt the composition, text zones and margins to the selected canvas without stretching or cropping essential content. Device safe areas apply only when a device is selected. Never print these format instructions on the image.