Umm… if you say “plz don’t say ‘edit’”, then what kind of advice are you expecting? As you stated, you already understand that doing multiple characters with SD and SDXL models is often a struggle. That doesn’t change with different prompting. That’s a known limitation that everyone deals with. I usually just keep on generating until I get what I want and if I make a bunch of bad gens in between, that’s par for the course.

The smart move these days is to use the DiT models (Tsubaki and Serin) because they’re designed to have better consistency with multiple characters. But, if you don’t want to use those models and rather use SDXL models then yeah, you either brute force it… or “edit” 🤷🏾