when i catch myself fucking up a character, i just sit back and acknowledge the fuckup.

like... if you didn't understand your characters, you wouldn't have noticed your ooc tendencies with each of them, but here you are. you know what's ic and ooc for them, and from now on you'll likely notice right away if you go to do something with either that treads the line. don't be too hard on yourself. it's a good thing that you noticed your own mistakes and could be self-critical; a lot of people just stay on their high horse when other people crit them, braying about how impossible it would be for them to be ooc.