Fair callout — the trick was hard-locking the palette in the prompt, not correcting after. Naming just two colors + "low saturation, analog" pulls Flux 2 way back toward that restrained MJ look:
"A lone figure in a long coat standing at the end of a rain-slicked pier at dusk, re...
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