Mmmm touch-starved Adrian fearing losing control of himself when he feels his Darling's hand touch his
Seeing a suspicious bit of color to his pallid cheeks as he tries not to let on how lonely he's been for years and how just a small gesture can leave him feeling such a rush
Not nonconning you but constantly wanting his hands and body around you, actively wishing he could feel the warmth from your living body and never have to let go. Even before he gets fully obsessed and decides to keep his Darling, he's finding any subtle way to touch them: brushing off dust or lint on them, checking their temperature because they seemed chilly due to the draft in the castle (despite them insisting they're fine), placing his fingers on theirs "coincidentally" while they browse the same shelves in the study, taking their hand and guiding them to what he wants to show them during that first tour of the estate ("Here, do you see that forest map on the far wall from the 1200s? If you look closely, you can see a hidden signature by one of the treelines dotted up there. I'll guide your line of sight, let me tilt your chin...)
Actively shivering when he's not let on his feelings/confessed yet and recalling when he first got to feel you touch him gently. He'd been showing you around the castle and you'd tripped on a bramble of thorns in the garden. He'd caught you and asked if you were injured, and he'd smelled the blood from your shallow cuts on your legs. You'd laughed at his expression and jokingly squeezed his shoulder to snap him out of his concern. "What're you, a shark? I didn't know the smell of blood could make your pupils get that huge!"
It was so small and so quick, you barely remembered touching his shoulder at all. But he did. He never imagined having to bite his cheek and adjust his bedclothes at night thinking about a human touching his shoulder, but it's not the weirdest thing he's done due to his isolation and loneliness.
*Spidey and the Sinister Six having their usual fight*
Doc Ock, landing a hit: You’re getting slow Spider-Man! Age finally catching up to you?
Spider-Man: You wish! I haven’t even hit my 30s! From those costumes I can already tell I failed to save you guys from those midlife crises! Sorry by the way.
Vulture: Watch it wallcr- wait… Did you just say your not in your thirties yet?
Spider-Man: Surprised that this spiders so young and spry? Well-
Electro: Dude I’ve been fighting you for at least 5 fucking years! How old even are you?
Shocker, joking cause he’s the only one who picked up no grown adult acts likes Spidey: Don’t swear in-front of the boy you don’t want him to pick it up.
Rhino: Christ! You’re tellin me I almost crushed some 12-year-olds skull all those years ago?
Spider-Man, regretting his quipping: I was not that young! Like just starting freshman year but-
Sandman, horrified as he’s the only one with a kid and dad instincts(as of my iteration): I could’ve killed a kid…
Shocker, genuinely curious: Are you even old enough to drink? Cruel to kill a man who ain’t had his first drink yet.
Electro: Please tell us you’re at least over 25 as of this fight. Hell, I’ll take over 21!
Spider-Man:….
Sandman, realizing just how young he really is: Oh my god.
Spider-Man: My birthday’s coming up soon so I guess it counts?
Doc Ock, exacerbated: It. Does. Not!
Vulture: What would your mother think if she knew her son was out here risking his life telling poorly constructed jokes?
Spider-Man, offended cause it quips slap: 1. My jokes are great 2. She and my dad are dead so-
Sandman, hysterical cause holy shit he almost killed a kid orphan: OH MY GOD!
Catch me as Alucard/Adrian's Darling insisting on spraying him with sunscreen before we go out, buying him some heat-tolerable clothes for Texas weather
Adrian: Beloved, I promise that none of this is necessary. I'm more than capable of surviving exposure to--
Darling: Look, the heat index warning said children and elderly are at risk outdoors this afternoon and a stud you may be, but a stud that's several centuries old counts as "elderly."