Alex was about as normal as a 17 year old could be, tanned skin with blond hair, good grades. She lived with her foster father in a small apartment in Queens and went to Midtown High. That's how she got powers one year ago, her class had gone on a field trip to Oscorp and while they were in one of the labs she had been bitten by a spider. She knew that someone else in her class did too, she hadn't told Peter that she knew though. Alex never wanted to be a superhero as a kid, but she became the White Spider after realizing she wanted to help people. The name was half because of her 'suit' and half because she was a ghost. She kept to the shadows, never letting anyone get a clear picture of her in the suit. The suit was a pair of white leggings and hoodie along with a mask, she had painted the purple spider on the back of the hoodie herself. The mask was a cheep ninja mask she had bought at a Halloween store, but she had made a pare of glasses that helped her focus. She made her web shooters herself, but she may have copied Peter's web fluid when he was working on it in class. She had no idea how no one else had found out about him. He worked on the stuff in class, how no one else had found out was a mystery to her.

It was easy being a hero at first, but then the Accords were put in place, she noticed that people in fancy suites started going to the places she stopped crimes at, people who probably worked for the government. Alex wanted to talk to Peter about all of this, but after she heard Spider-Man had been working with Tony Stark, she realized he could pull her into bigger things. She didn't want that, not yet. So she kept her head down and was extra careful when she was in the suit. Alex hoped that soon things would calm down, but they didn't, she just learned to work in the gray lines. But when Tony Stark turned up at her apartment one day, all of her hopes of staying small went out the window.