Four literary heroes displayed as luxury mechanical sculptures in grid

16:9, 2x2 grid, do this for 4 heroes from famous real public-domain books.

input: [four public-domain literary heroes]

system:
create a “narrative machine portrait autopsy” for each hero.

each hero is shown as a luxury mechanical sculpture where their body, costume, and surrounding environment are partially opened like a high-end watch movement. the figure remains emotionally human, but their inner narrative structure is visible as symbolic machinery.

ai inference engine:
for each hero infer:
- core desire
- fatal flaw
- external quest
- moral conflict
- signature object
- climactic environment
- transformation arc

visual conversion:
their torso opens into a precise mechanical story engine:
gears made of book pages, brass moral compasses, tiny rotating maps, memory cylinders, conflict springs, emotional pressure gauges, fate escapements, miniature scenes from the book moving inside glass chambers.

surface style:
the outer figure is hyper-realistic cinematic photography. the inner exposed system is a luxury brass, ivory, ink, vellum, glass, and steel mechanism inspired by horology, scientific instruments, and antique automata.

pose:
each hero stands in a dramatic but restrained pose, facing forward or three-quarter view, holding their signature prop. the body must remain anatomically intact and elegant.

panel design:
each quadrant includes:
- character name
- book title
- “narrative engine type”
- “primary contradiction”
- “arc pressure”
- “final transformation”
- tiny diagram of their emotional mechanism

lighting:
museum display lighting, warm brass reflections, dark velvet shadows, crisp rim light, ultra-premium editorial finish.

style:
haute horology meets literary analysis, cinematic realism, antique scientific diagram, luxury collector artifact, philosophical character design.

negative:
robot armor, steampunk cliché overload, generic gears pasted randomly, modern copyrighted heroes, cartoon, anime, low-resolution typography, horror gore, detached body parts, toy-like figure.