I've always wanted to make a website. Even when I was a dorky little ten-year-old using my mom's boss's Internet to look up pictures of Pikachu, I thought 'I wanna make a website about how much I love Jigglypuff!' .....I was a messed up kid. So sue me. Anyway, I later decided that I might make a website about the Legend of Zelda series, but for whatever reason that fell through. When we finally got the Net on, I didn't know what to do, though. My interest in the Zelda series simply wasn't INFORMED enough to make a site about, and there were soooooo many Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon sites already. I seriously considered the idea of making a shrine to Kaji from Neon Gensis Evangelion, but eventually decided against it for whatever reason. Then, Evo came along.

One week later, Play Practice was again cancelled, much to my private relief -and not just because I kept forgetting my lines- therefore I was able to rush home and get there in the middle of 'Speed and Spyke' (bloody trams, always late, or early, or stopping, or not stopping... damn, I hate trams) and see Pietro. I fell in looove with him, and saw the 3-second clip with the rest of the BH. I must admit, it took me a few seconds to recognize Toad and Rogue-y, and at that time, Lance was simply known to me as 'that weirdo guy I don't know but looks kinda like Richtor'

The next week, play practise was on, so I missed my chance to see Lance-y, and, the week after, managed to catch 'Turn of the Rogue'. I hate that episode. Rogue so belongs with the BH! Anyway, I watched it with interest. Sadly, school play practice was on until term ended, and by then Channel 9 dropped Evo (which just sucks). This is the part I'm really ashamed of:

For about 3 months, I totally forgot about Evo. Anyway, I had just gotten the Internet, and was flicking through one of my N64Gamer Magazines during one of my not-so-frequent breaks. I happened to come across a letters column where one of the readers was asking about Zelda fanfiction. The letters answerer (bless their soul) mentioned FanFiction.Net. Being mildly interested in the idea of fanfiction, I checked it out and promptly became an addict. ^^; After a further month of plundering the Dragon Ball Z section and becoming thoroughly dissatisfied with the lack of Juunanagou (that guy ROCKS!), I started hanging around the Just In section.

Anyway, I happened across an Evo fic (I forgot which one) in one of the sections. I vaguely remembered it from all those months ago, and decided to read it. Needless to say, Metior, queen of all dumbasses, got totally lost but was very intrigued.
I went to the Evo section, and started reading. The very first fic I read, and I remember this clearly, was a fic by Red Witch (it was called home alone or something), where the BH boys were, you guessed it, in the big ol' house without Mystique.
I knew who Pietro and Freddy were instantly due to a recent comic-reading-fest, only took about 2 lines to figure out Todd's identity, but was totally stumped with Lance. I couldn't remember for the life of me anyone called Lance in the Marvel Universe, except this guy who was in, like, one issue of Spider-Man as a reporter. 0.o I was, by now, not as into DBZ as I used to be, and needed a new obsession.

Did I mention my computer had a virus during this period? Well, after an eternity of looking, I found an Evo site. Promptly, the computer crashed. An insane period went on where every time I found something do do with Evo, the computer killed itself. I was seriously thinking a higher power didn't want me to figure this out. BUT, my father and I, at 2am, no less, figured out the problems! Never trust pirated Antivirus programs, peoples. They only lead to pain and suffering! And don't get me started on the home-made memory chips!

Anyway, the computer was finally working again, and I realized that I still had no idea who Lance was. I'd gathered that he was codenamed Avalanche, but looked at a picture of Avalanche comic-style and nearly collapsed at the difference. Seriously, have you seen that guy?
Anyway, I looked around for more info, but found nothing but fanfics. However, I developed quite a liking for Lance, and thought 'Ah, what the hell? I wanted to make a website anyway!'. So, I made this site. About a month later, however, I came across a shopping mall store, a Myer I think, with Evo videos. Needless to say, I bought them ^.^ And, that's about all for this section...

Officially, the shrine's been up since 17th December 2001, however, its first account (metiorlance at GeoCities) was registered a lot earlier, and used as an RPG account. Uh, I'm sure there's a section on that somewhere else on the site... anyhow, we had around 7000 hits before I switched to Angelfire on the site's second account (gundam/metior). And this would be the third account of the shrine at loki_loire. Eventually I plan to get a domain name, but Geocities will do for now.

I know, I know, the name sucks. -_-; I'll give a bit of background, though. As far as I know, MLS was the first shrine dedicated solely to Lance (I don't know if there are any more, honestly I really don't go looking for shrines that much), as well as being my first website, and I just didn't really want to be bothered to think up a site name. I was considering renaming it on the one-year anniversary, but that never panned out due to personal reasons (see below for a bit more info). So, I guess you're all stuck with MLS for now :D

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The Hiatus of Yore
A few people have been asking me about the hiatus. The Hiatus. It deserves capitals. From April 2002-March 2003, the site was pretty much dead. It was never updated, had a crappy layout and was all-around sucky. Due to extreme personal reasons, I couldn't update. I was going through some rough times, and have since disowned half of my family. No, I will not elaborate. My bestest friends don't know what happened, so I don't see why you should.