Malta (Empiretalia)

Description

Malta is a young, calm gentleman whose only desire is to live a peaceful life protected by the Italian family. He always keeps an umbrella with him and was thought to love tea by Romania who raised him after the Ancient Roman Empire. He’s a supporting character since he isn’t part of the Italian Family but he’s often shown arguing with South Italy or just contributing to the short stories.

Appearance

Malta is always in formal attire, rarely seen in everyday comfortable clothes, especially at meetings. He has a similar style to Central Italy but claims he’s different from her in many ways. His typical outfit is a long dark brown coat over a yellowish-white shirt and a red tie, he also has matching dark brown pants and black shiny shoes. He always keeps his appearance in mind, even if South Italy says that he shouldn’t since a big portion of his population moves to Italy. He, however doesn’t care and lets it go, not listening to him. His hair is of a brown color with hints of red in it, his eyes are also brown, making his outfit fit perfectly, as he says.

Personality and Interests

Malta mostly acts like a gentleman, like Romania, since he was once ruled by him. The italian siblings, though, wanted to get Malta as theirs, they still fight over that. He is often compared to Centro for their similar aspect, but he states it isn’t true. Malta is kind of the snob type, he always has romanian tea with him since he’s attached to his origins, though Romania sometimes treats him like a baby, which he highly dislikes. He prohibited Malta from hanging out with the Italies since he thinks they only want Malta for his territories and nothing else, ending up in an argument and later on Malta disobeying Romania and hanging out with his friends. But Romano, being the geographically closer brother to Malta, tries all the time to make him become one with the Italian peninsula.

Relations

By being a relatively young and small country, Malta always thought he wouldn’t have many friends but soon he became popular and found friends… but also enemies, like every country.

South Italy

By being the closest, geographically, South Italy tends to encounter Malta many times while he’s walking around. He always tried to make him become part of Italy and he’s also the reason why Romania dislikes the Italian siblings as a whole. Malta usually doesn’t give in to South Italy’s annoying habit and shrugs it off.

Central Italy

The two are mostly mistaken for brother and sister because of their very similar style of clothing but they’re very much not related, even though Malta was once part of the Ancient Roman Empire in its glory days until it fell and Malta was ‘independent’ from him.

Romania

Romania often treats Malta as a child since he got his independence very late in history. They have always been close until Romania saw Italy’s attempts at making Malta part of their nation like in the old Roman Empire, so he put laws so that he couldn’t learn italian anymore. Malta was not satisfied at all with the new laws (since Italians make a big part of Malta’s population) and he soon after decided to become independent, with that being one of the reasons. They’re still somewhat close but Romania seems to forget that his small precious Malta is an adult.

America

Malta and America have never been the closest friends there are, they, though, can rely on each other and have a good relationship even if they haven’t hung out in a long time. America chose to help out one of Romania’s ex-territories by befriending him after his independence and good foreign relations.

Quotes

"Big brother Romania is so mean to me! Why can't I just hang out with my friends?" -Everytime Romania calls him out for hanging out with the Italian siblings. "Stop asking me that. I'll never give in." -When South Italy asks him to become part of Italy.

Trivia

-A big part of his population is made out of italians or people who speak Italian as their first or second language. -He is a descendant of Ancient Rome too. -Romania thought him to behave like a perfect British gentleman. That's why he acts that way.