Nostalgic Flash — Late 90s Internet Café 1

Two friends at side-by-side CRT monitors in a dimly lit internet café — a young person with short dark hair and warm brown skin wearing an oversized hoodie pushing back from the keyboard with both arms raised in victory, chair rolling back, mouth open in a triumphant yell. Beside them, a skinny pale guy with bleached-blond spiky hair and a silver lip ring wearing a baggy black hoodie with a backwards cap slumps forward onto the desk, head in hands in dramatic defeat, his massive energy drink can nearly knocked over. Their CRT screens glow blue-white — one showing a victory screen, the other a death screen. Headphones around the young person's neck. Green-tinted fluorescent lights overhead, tangled Ethernet cables, other players at computers in the dim background. Flash from the aisle, harsh and flat. Heavy film grain, green-tinted fluorescent mixed with blue CRT glow, slightly out of focus. Natural skin texture with subtle pores and micro-imperfections, organic asymmetry in features.