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Leon S. Kennedy

He does it too sometimes, but it’s not an « addiction » for him, more of a last resort for his almost-fried-by-stress brain. Usually he doesn’t even have the opportunity to bite, he’s always in the action, he needs to stay focused and ready to act.

Still, he understands it’s an anxiety response.

Notices but doesn’t say anything most of the time – he doesn’t want to pile up onto your agitation.

He doesn’t like to see you hurt though, so he’ll research the best bandaids and present them to you nonchalantly.

He’ll buy you nice hand creams with smells he knows you like, in the hope that you’ll use them and that the lack of dead skin to pick at will trigger you less.

Chris Redfield

He’s seen a lot. A lot of shit, a lot of unhealthy coping mecanisms. This isn’t something he can’t handle.

He’s not disgusted or uneasy about it.

He doesn’t find your hands ugly. They’re hands. He himself is covered in scars. He knows what it looks like when what you go through leaves marks on your body. It’s a body that did what it had to to survive, to push through.

The kind to carry bandaids with him in case you make yourself bleed (silly cartoon characters bandaids if you’re into that).

Albert Wesker

Will experiment to figure out what makes you bite your nails.

Ultimately needs you to be perfect to be worthy of standing by his side, so he will also experiment to find out what can make you stop.

Tries not to get pissed at you when he sees you biting your nails, because he knows that it would only make it worse, but you can feel the angry tension behind the smile.

Sadistic enough to use it as a way to « punish » you, making sure you bite your nails until you bleed when you disappoint them, and then throws gloves at you with a sneer.

Carlos Oliveira

Has seen many colleagues do the same through the years (stressful job, after all).

Sees it as a warning sign that something is getting too much for you.

Will ask if you are okay, what’s going on, every time he sees you biting. Talks you through what is bothering you, even if it gets you sad or angry because your emotions coming out is actually healthier.

If you say you don’t want to talk about it, he won’t insist, but he will start blabbering about anything to try and make you think about something else (he has baby animal videos saved on his phone in case of emergency).

Luis Serra

Starts saying « ouch » at every bite like it’s his fingers you’re biting at.

When you inevitably side-eye him and start biting like a madman, he gives a very over-the-top, very unserious performance of being in unbearable pain.

It does get you to laugh and stop (just for a moment).

If you tell him that you unfortunately have to remove this bit of nail/skin because it triggers you too much, he reassures you that he understands, and he gives your finger(s) ✨ magic healing kisses ✨ afterwards.

If you live together, he makes sure to kiss each of your fingers before going to sleep and upon waking up.

Ethan Winters

Takes your hand(s) in his. Squeezes. Looks at you like you’re his entire heart and he can’t bear to see you hurt.

If it starts to frustrate you, he’ll kiss you.

He’ll cheekily say : « Put those pretty lips to better use. »

He’s talking about kissing, but if you answer with something more toward, he’ll go beet red and sputter.

Lots of hand-holding and kissing and hugging. Replacing physical pain with physical affection.

Jack Krauser

Do. Not. Damage. What’s. His.

Death stare with a barely veiled promise of violence if you don’t stop.

WARNING : do not attempt at home. The normal nail-biter reaction to this is to turn into a nail-eating squirrel on crack, in a very childish display of « fuck you, I do what I want ».

Karl Heisenberg

Dad voice : « Don’t do that. I said STOP. »

You can try to run away but there’s no running away from him in his own home. He’ll get you, and once he does he’ll trap your hands in metal until you explain.

Trauma-inducing therapy I guess ?

Afterwards, if he catches you biting your nails, he’ll trap both of your hands in his bigger one and hold them out of reach until you give up and tell him what’s bothering you.