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When MHHO was a simple, single page with a black background with bright blue text hosted on geocities, this was the form Maq had. In a way, this was her childhood. She was a little spunk of a girl, who greeted you as you entered the page (despight the fact that there were no images at this time). The page didn't last too long in that form, since I was forever tweaking and playing with it, learning html. Though Maq has changed a great deal since this time, I'm still fond of her original form. |
| As my webpage grew into a website with random bits and pieces to it, I decided here would be a good place to show off my artwork. As such, I immediatly began plastering the site with any scrap of art I had laying around. But the little kiddie Maq didn't suit me anymore. Since I was really into the RPG Freelance Mercenaries, I decided to use the form I had there. To date, this is my favorite of all of Maq's apperances. It's at this time her eyes took on their customary purple cast. Since I was using crayola pencils to color most pictures, I started using the "mango" pencil to do her hair, giving it a slightly orange look to it. She was smooth, sleak, and very lovable. |
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But then the next year rolled around, and I no longer liked the look of my site and I felt Maq needed an update as well. So I began splitting up the page into sections, makeing everything nice and neat, and I started tweaking Maq's armor. I'll admit to some plagerism with her chest armor, since I saw something similar in an anime (a hentai anime, no less) and fell in love with it. Then, since I had the top made, I just threw in a body suit that had a startling resemblance to the body suit worn by Rockman.EXE. Her boots, however, remained as thin and streamlined as ever. I made her eyes less 'pointed' and gave her a softer, more innocent look that seems to have stuck. About the only thing that had remained the same so far was her bang's style, despight the fact that her hair was getting longer. |
| At this time I was entering the later part of my teen years. I was growing more mature (at least in apperance) and I felt Maq needed a more mature form as well. I decided to make her look more like how I felt I looked, although in the end she looked nothing like me. She lost her traditional hairstyle, her eyes grew smaller and went back to being blue. She also got older and behaived more like an adult. I changed her past (again) and gave it a slightly more tragic turn. The webpage reflected her personality, and had a very simple and less flashy apperance. I always liked it. I got rid of alot of pages I wasn't using anymore, and allowed it to focus more on my art. |
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It was around now that I finally moved off geocities and out into the world of mhho.com. I had already designed the new layout and everything, and Maq had her new look. She regained her innocent apperance that I'd sorely missed, and her hair and eyes went back to 'normal'. I gave her a more mega-manish apperance, settling for a bit darker blue then normal for her armor color. Her boots went from their normal slimmed look to the huge megaman style boots. I'll admit Alia's original design was an inspiration of Maq's new look, but she was still the same 'ol girl people had come to know. |
| After so many years of tweaking and poking at both the page and Maqqy's design, I had finally found an overall look for both that I liked. So when it came for the yearly change, I decided to simply change the few aspects I didn't like and keep it more or less the same. The result was a website and a Maq design that I completely fell in love with. Maq's appearance was so much what I wanted that I was tempted to make it her permanent look. That year, I asked people to draw Maq, and the more I saw of her, the more I loved it. I considered it her ultimate form. She was sleak and sexy, but still managed to have the open, friendly attitude that people had grown accustomed to. |
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But, I ended up having server problems and issues out the wazoo, and it was getting close to the time when I'd have to revamp again anyways. So I decided that with the move would gain a new look! I wanted everything to be different. I began designing a new look for Maq, and I wanted her armor to be completely different from before. The result was two different designs, and me unable to choose between them. I was tempted to go with her more mature and sexy apperance, but I decided to open it to a vote. Let the people decide which they liked better. I was surprised when a majority perfered her younger, sweeter version, since I tend to be surrounded by guys who like big-busted ladies. So Maq remained youthful and chipper. She actually took on an appearance slightly younger then before, and her 'armor' was more cloth-like then metal in apperance. |
| Before you knew it, March rolled around and with it was MHHO's 8th birthday. As such, a new layout was needed. This time, I chucked aside all previous layouts and went for one that was completely different. But when it came time to design Maq, I decided older was better. So I checked out all my old versions, and took the parts I liked and rebuilt Maq from the ground up. The overall look is one I'm very pleased with. The only thing I might change from this form is her breast plate. I can never seem to get one that I like. Alot of her design was taken from versions 6.0, 5.0, and oddly enough, 2.0. In the end, we got a new Maq that looks similar to the older generations, but someone different. |
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