Alastor (Allen) was a former mafia boss. He was one of the best in the USA. However, Vox (Victor) turned all of Allen’s members to stone and extended the corpse’s jaw so it would be stuck in an unnaturally long smile. Scared to be in the same fate, Allen decided to become Victor’s assistant. And that’s what Allen did for the rest of his life, until he died from a spider bite (hence his spider form). Vox died a year later from electrocution. Victor was obsessed with trying to achieve the unachievable, which in his case, was immortality. And Victor claimed he “didn’t care” when Allen died. He actually did tho. Victor had a helpless crush on Allen.