.: Malaysia (WIP) :. by headstrong210 on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

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Country Information:

Country: Malaysia

Capital: Kuala Lumpur (national) and Putrajaya (administrative)

Location: South East Asia

Official language: Bahasa Malaysia

Other languages: English, Chinese, Tamil, Iban, Dusunic and 39 others

Government: Constitutional and Elective monarchy, Federal Parliamentary

Current ruling party: Barisan Nasional (UMNO)

Current Prime Minister: Najib Tun Razak

Current King/Yang di-pertuan Agong: Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah

Official religion: Islam (Sunni Islam), but provides freedom of religion and with other religions such as Bhuddism, Hinduism, Christianity etc.

Currency: Malaysian Ringgit (RM/MYR)

Biological information:

Human name: Nur Alyah binti Abdul Rahman

((Nur is the most popular name in Malaysia, it is from Arabic, and it means 'light'. Alyah is a variant if 'Alya' , which is also an Arabic/Muslim name, meaning healthy/strong, sky/heaven and lofty. 'Binti' is from the traditional Malay naming system, which is often arranged like this: 'given name' binti/bin 'father's name' . In this case, 'bin' means 'son of' while 'binti' means 'daughter of'. 'Abdul Rahman' is taken from the name of Malaysia's father of independence: Tunku Abdul Rahman. It is also from the 'man who saved Malaysia', Ismail Abdul Rahman (he was named that fro his efforts after the May 13th racial riot). 'Abdul Rahman' means 'servant of the most merciful' in Arabic.))

Gender: Female

((In Malay culture, women are often described as the more hardworking member of the family, and is the one that earns the income as well are the entrepreneurs. This is shown in the local book 'shadow play', where it describes the women more hardworking than men, as well as the Kota Bharu market, which is entirely run by females. Furthermore, Malay women has also played parts in Malaysion history, such as legendary figures like Tun Fatimah (a warrior from the Malacca Sultanate) and Cik Siti wan Kembang (the Queen if Kelantan during Kelantan's golden age). Also, in the now extict empire of Pattani, an empire which heavily influenced the Nothern state of Kelantan, the legendary rulers were not men, but women. In Minangkabau culture, a culture prominent in the state if Negeri Sembilan, family property are passed to the females of the family, and all matters about family have to go through the female heads, while men are expected to leave and find their what to call their own. In Chinese culture, also a prominent culture in Malaysia which also has a rather large influence in major cities in Malaysia and the state of Sarawak, women are said to be the ones in charge if family matters and are the ones that stay home and take care of the family, while the men are to go out and handle outside matters. In modern matters, women also play an important role. For example, some of the Internationally famous Malaysian singers include Yuna and Dato' Siti Nurhaliza binti Taruddin. Dato' Siti Nurhaliza alone has won 200 local and international awards. The first person women to be appointed as central bank governor in Malaysia and Asia, and the first woman to be within the top ten rankings for central bank governors of the world was also Malaysian, Tan Sri Dr. Zeti Athkar Aziz.))

Age: 16

Birthday: 31st of August (Malayan independence day) , 16th of September (formation of Malaysia)

Height: 153.3 cm ((average Malaysian female height))

Weight:

Appearance

Malaysia has wavy dark brown hair that reaches her chest, and is tied up into a bun with jasmine flowers on it. Her fringe is separated into exactly 5 sections and they are slightly longer near her ears. On one of her 'longer' bangs, there is a splitting hair strand . She has dark brown eyes that appear black in colour and slightly thick eyebrows from her British influence, as well as tanned skin. She stands at 153.3 centimetres tall, the average height of a Malaysian lady. Her hair (and jasmine flowers) is covered by a dark red scarf, that is tied around her head to resemble a hijab, but with her fringe visible. On the ends of her scarf there are strings if yellow and black beads. She wears a green baju kurung, the national outfit, with a silver coin belt around her waist. The shirt of her baju kurung has yellow 'vine' patterns with peonies on it. Her body shape isn't very viable due to the baju kurung, which isn't a figure hugging type of clothing, but she has a slightly chubby figure, due to her eating/snacking habits despite her tine to time sport activities like sepak takraw (which exercises the whole body), badminton or football.

Malaysia is a very traditional person, and most of her clothing have some kind of connection to her multicultural heritage. Despite favouring the modest baju kurung most, Malaysia does enjoy wearing colourful modern dresses/shirts/skirts or pants, which are all below knee length and have sleeves, and usually beautifully decorated with either floral or geometric patterns.

Her appearance headcanons are BRIEFLY explained in the headcanons section, but for a fully explained version, please visit this link: fav.me/d98y9fd

Personality

Malaysia is a friendly and cheerful girl, as well as easy to approach. She enjoys having conversations with complete strangers, and is also very pleasant towards new friends or people she is familiar with, or, at least tries to. She treats people she sees often like family, including people like restaurant staff that serves her often, etc. She tends to call people 'auntie' , 'uncle' , 'boss' or 'adik', as well as greet people who visit her by asking if they have eaten yet. Malaysia tends to use Manglish more than proper English, and mixes Malay and Chinese words into her sentences, and sometimes ends with a 'lah' , 'ar' or 'mah'. She is always seen with a smile on her face, and has a 'the glass is half full' way of seeing life. She often tries to maintain a cheerful and positive attitude even through hardships, and maintains very secretive about her actual thoughts. She is also has a good sense of humour, and takes joy in making people laugh and sees it as great fun herself. She cannot stand way too quiet or serious get together, and believes everything should have some fun and laughter in it.

Malaysia is a family orientated person, especially to her states, who, despite not being related to, are like family to her. She tends to act like she's the oldest among them, despite being way younger. Because of that, she gets disapointed or upset when they do not listen to her, despite them saying they are fine on their own. She also values her siblings like Indonesia or her fellow ASEAN members (who she also treats like family) , and tries her best to get along with them, despite them disagreeing on large issues. Malaysia is a compassionate girl and is very generous with what she donates or gives to others, and will be satisfied with it as long as the receiver benefits from it. She is also the type that would stop to help someone, even if she is in a rush, and she genuinely takes joy in doing such things. When having guests, she is increasingly generous with the food she provides.

Malaysia had a terrible habit of procrastinating. She feels no rush to do things, and as long as she has food and shelter for a day, she is happy. She tends to delay things until near the deadline, and then rushes to finish it-- and never learns her lesson. She also has a habit of turning up late for gatherings/meetings, following the 'Malaysian Rubber Time', where she "stretches" the time. This is mainly because of her laid back attitude This is a contrast to, say, Singapore, who is always pressured by the invisible person telling him to be no.1 and to be the best. Malaysia is relaxed and feels absolutely no need or pressure to be working hard to no.1, she is just fine where she is, and would rather be sleeping somewhere than to be working hard and improving. Despite being 'busy', Malaysia always pushes things aside to procrastinate and do as she pleases. Because of these habits, none of her work is done with 100% effort. Really, she good be the best and she could be amazing, but only if she wanted to. However, she can be driven to give her 100% if the topic interests her, or, she genuinely wants to do it. Basically, interest is what will either have her procrastinating or working at her 100%. Her work performance also depends on how her 'employer' treats her. If the employer is from the west/not Malaysian and attempts to speak Malay, she would be happier to do the work for that person, than to do work for a person who doesn't attempt to.

Another of her flaws include being biased. She will pick sides she favours personally, without thinking if proper logic. Once she picks a side, nothing can change her mind, even the thickest book of proper and correct facts. She tends to deny being biased, however, everyone is well aware of this. Malaysia, with her rich variety of cultures, traditions, and food, is a glutton. She has a wide arrange if snacks and meals to choose from, from street food to fine dining. Because if her such cultural food heritage, eating has become one if her many habits. For example, she could have just finished a buffet lunch at a hotel, but a few minutes Katee she could have spotted a good kuih (snack) store and would be eating there. Food takes up most of her thoughts, and it is hard to have her not thinking about it. Malaysia is also a weak willed person. When competing with someone else, she will try a few times-- maybe 2 or 3 times--, but after that, she will give up and go do her own things. This applies to sports, contests etc. It also ties in with her laid back attitude. She can't do it, means she can't do it.

Malaysia is a secretive person with a lot to hide. Despite being friendly with people, she isn't one to tell others her secrets, even the most harmless, and keeps a lot of things to herself. There are many points about her, as well as view if other people that only she knows, and refuses to let it escape from her mind. Even if she has been with that single person her whole life, that person would still have no idea what she keeps in her head, not even a slight image. She tends to fear that people would find out what she keeps to herself, and is increasingly protective of it because if that fear. She has a habit of fearing the invisible, may it be an impossible situation, a superstition, or someone finding out something about her no one else knows. Because of her this, she builds walls higher around her secrets, and all because of fear.

Malaysia is an extremely religious person, and religion affects her daily decisions and actions heavily. She has a habit if dragging religion into every single topic or argument she has, and others ate annoyed by it. The art, rules and decisions made in her country are all affected by her religion, and Malaysia is very strict about it. It is one if the few rules she will follow, but, does not force it on people who have no wish to follow it. She isn't the type that forces her religion on someone, and tries to keep a peaceful and understanding relationship with others despite religious differences. Religion also affects her actions around other people, such as public displays of affection with the other gender etc. She is quite reluctant to be very close to a male who she is unfamiliar with, and can react quite dramatically.

Malaysia is a person that, despite enjoying chatting, shows her real intentions through non verbal communication. She does so mainly to maintain peace with others without offending them verbally, or making the other lose face by directly saying no or refusing them. She may say one thing, but her actions/hand movements/ body posture etc. Would be what she actually means. This also includes certain facial expressions, although she tries not to make it way too obvious. She has a habit if being indirect when speaking as well. Malaysia, despite not having the best temper, tries very hard to be patient with other countries, especially Singapore. She is easily annoyed or offended by things others say about her, on purpose or not, but tries to not get angry at them or lose her temper. She is often seen taking deep breaths or counting to ten, but non of these tactics succeed in calming her down. Because she becomes very unpleasant and tends to insult people when angry, she constantly tries and works on this to maintain peace with other countries, as well as a friendly relationship, as she dislikes being on bad terms with someone for way too long.

Malaysia is a very outdoors person, and spends a large amount of her evenings or morning outside in the park. She enjoys doing outdoor activities such as badminton, speak takraw and football, which partially make up for her eating habits. She enjoys breathing in fresh air and spending time with others playing sports or traditional games outdoors, and would prefer that over being in a stuffy room. However, due to haze or climate changes, she would end up with the latter. Malaysia lives and respects nature, may it be flora or fauna. She has s rich biodiversity , as well as excellent scuba diving spots. She has a strong connection to the sea and jungles, and spends most of her day offs there. She would also visit neighbouring countries such as Thailand and Indonesia just for the outdoors, and it is one if the things that truly make her happy.

With a rich cultural background of art, drama, dance and other arts, Malaysia is an artistic person and interesting creativity. Her arts all have strong traditional roots, may it be traditional Malay dances like joget, Chinese dances like the lion dance, Indian Bollywood dancing etc, Malaysia is very passionate about these traditions and values them. She also has nimble fingers, and is capable if weaving, wood carving etc, which come from Iban, Kadazan, Malay, orang asli, Chinese and Indian backgrounds. Many of her artistic abilities are from her multicultural backgrounds. Malaysia is a traditional person who respects her background, but lacks no knowledge of modern day information and trends. She is able to think like a modern day young woman, but at the same time be a traditional one. She balances traditions and modernisation well, and is rather proud of that.

Malaysia is a very absent minded person with her head in the clouds. She prefers to daydream with impossible situations or events than snap back into the harsh reality, and it is extremely hard to get her back from her daydreams. A lot if her friends find it hard to speak to her once she has snapped into her daydream mode. She tends to fantasise events, or even romanticise things. Malaysia is also a hopeless romantic, mainly due to her daydreaming and her habit of watching soap operas and dramas. Therefore, has high expectations of real life love. Because of this, she doesn't focus well on her actual task, which leads her to be able to be distracted easily, which, eventually leads to procrastination.

Unfortunately, Malaysia is a corrupt person, and this habit is continuing to expand to dangerous levels. Malaysia is already a natural liar, having many secrets, so such thing is just topping it off. Despite being a generous person, Malaysia can give in to this trait, but has a habit of regretting in much later on when she rethinks it over and over again. However, this cycle continues to repeat. She can be bribed by food, money, etc. Malaysia does try to change or control this habit of hers, but it is hard as it is one of her first choices or decisions. Despite doing this, Malaysia is very sensitive to this word, and tends to have mixed feeling about her decisions regarding this.

Malaysia's personality is based off stereotypes, the Malaysian government and people as well as Malaysia's culture. I do have reasonings behind each one, and if you would like to ask me about any, you are free to, but in a nice way, please.

History

I will be explaining Malaysia's history in sections, and as briefly as I can. Please also understand that I believe that the "start" of Malaysia was not from the Malacca Sultanate.

Ancient history

The earliest kingdoms on peninsula Malaysia are believed to be the kingdom if Langkasuka and Kedah tua (old Kedah). Both kingdoms were Hindu-Bhuddist kingdoms, and are believed to have existed since the 2nd century. Langkasuka is said to have existed between Thailand and Peninsula Malaysia, while Kedah tua, was situated in the present day state of Kedah.

The Srivijaya empire started conquering the Malay Peninsula in the 7th century, and slowly, had conquered the whole of Peninsula Malaysia. Notable places were Kedah Tua ( who, despite being conquered, maintained its fame as a trading centre) and present day Perak, who was rich at the time and managed to resist several raids from the Srivijaya empire. This empire had a large influence on Malaysia's culture before it was weakened and eventually forgotten.

Meanwhile, in the states of Sarawak and Sabah, Chinese immigrants had already started to arrive in the present day state of Sarawak during the 7th century, as well as migrants from Kalimantan, Indonesia. The state of Sabah had started trading with the Chinese, Portuguese and Dutch by the 9th century.

The Sultanate of Malacca

A descendent of a prince from Srivijaya, Paduka Sri Maharaja Parameswara, who was expelled from the Kingdom of Singapura (present day Singapore) by Majapahit, along with his army, arrived in Malacca after being attacked by lizards in the present day state of Johor. Legend says, he was hunting when he saw a mouse deer being chased by a dog, but instead of running, the mouse deer kicked the dig into the river. Parameswara believed that this would be a good place, and since he was standing under a 'Melaka' tree, he named the place Melaka (Malacca).

Malacca was situated at a very strategic spot: at the straits of Malacca. The straits of Malacca was the key to the success of the Malacca Sultanate, and was the main shipping lane connecting the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. This exact strait was also a big help to Kedah Tua, and Malacca, who was exactly in the middle of this strait, benefit from it most. Paramesvara built a navy out of the sea gypsies and pirates, and protected the people there. The navy was supposed to stop ships to pay their taxes when they passed Malacca, but that wasn't needed. As Malacca's role as a trading centre expanded, ships stopped by willingly. Traders brought in things such as spice from the Spice islands, silks from China, hardwood and camphor from Borneo and so on. The navy's new job now was to secure and make he area safe, which once again, made more traders and ships visit Malacca. Another reason traders stopped at Malacca was because it was the place where two monsoon's met. For one half of the year, the wind blew and brought in traders from Arabia and India. For the other half of the year, the wind blew from the East and brought traders from China and Java.

In 1409, Admiral Cheng Ho (also known as Zheng He) visited Malacca, bringing tiles from China for Paramesvara. In return, Paramesvara invited the Admiral for dinner. The two eventually became close, and Paramesvara visited China in 1411. In China, Paramesvara fell in love with Princess Hang Li Po, and with the Emperor's permission, married her. at the same time, China became the Sultanate of Malacca's overlord, protecting the Sultanate from it's enemies such as Majapahit and Siam. Malacca eventually conquered the whole of Peninsula Malaysia, as well as parts of Sumatra.

After Paramesvara died, his son converted to Islam, and eventually, the Malays followed suit. The Siamese attacked Malacca in the years 1445 and 1456, but the Sultanate remained.

The Portuguese in Malacca and the formation of the Johor-Riau Sultanate

Eventually, Malacca's fame spread to the West, and, the ears of the Portuguese. In 1509, Diogo Lopes de Sequeria arrived in Malacca to see the Sultan, in behalf of King Manoel. From that year onwards, Portuguese came to trade in Malacca. However, many Malaccan traders were not satisfied, as they were losing money to these Portuguese traders. This led to Tun Mutahir, the Bendahara at the time, to attack the Portuguese ships, setting two ships on fire. In the very same year, the Sultan ordered for Tun Mutahir to be killed. In 1511, 18 Portuguese ships arrived in Malacca, led by Alfonso de Albuquerque, who wanted to captured Malacca, as well as take revenge for attacking Sequeria's ships. They fought at the bridge across the Malacca river, and despite having only a thousand men, the Portuguese successfully captured Malacca. After that, the Portuguese robbed the city of its riches, and put it on a ship to Portugal, namely, the Flor de la Mar, which sank, and Malacca's riches disappeared. Because of the Portuguese, traders also began to avoid Malacca to trade.

Sultan Mahmud Shah, the Sultan during Portuguese attack, had successfully fled from Malacca with his family and many of his men. They travelled to Muar, then to Pahang. When they arrived in Pahang, they were greeted by Sultan Abdul Jamil, the Sultan of Pahang and Sultan Mahmud Shah's cousin. Sultan Mahmud Shah was furious at the fact they as lost their great city. Eventually, he travelled down South the Malay peninsula, to the island if Bintan. There, he started a new empire, and became to Sultan or Riau-Johor. Many Malaccan vassals like Patani, Kelantan, Kedah and Singapura were still loyal to Sultan Mahmud Shah. However, the Sultan still wanted his great city back. He attacked Malacca from 1515-1524, but failed. Meanwhile, the Portuguese, in 1523, had attacked the present day state of Kelantan and taken slaves, and, in return to the attacks Sultan Mahmud had on Malacca, they destroyed Bintan. In 1528, Sultan Mahmud Shah died in Kampar, Sumatra, while fleeing.

Sultan Mahmud Shah's son, Sultan Alauddin, decided to return to the Malay Peninsula and start his empire in Johor, by the Johor river. His brother had gone to Perak, and had become the ruler there, and took on the name Sultan Muzaffar Shah. Sultan Alauddin, like his father, attacked Malacca to reclaim it, and had a siege that lasted three months, in 1551. Once again, the Portuguese took revenge and attacked Johor.

The Achenese empire and the Dutch

The Kingdom if Aceh was situated in the North of Sumatra, and were known to be fierce fighters. They attacked several areas in the Malay Peninsula, including Perak and Johor-Riau. These Malay Kingdoms fought back, and as revenge, the Acehnese took Sultan Alauddin of Johor-Riau as prisoner, and he died there in 1564. The Sultan of Aceh, Sultan Iskandar Muda, conquered Pahang, Perak and Kedah, and thousands of Malays were sent to Aceh as slaves. The Aceh empire grew to be very strong, and their only match was Portuguese Malacca.

In 1629, Portuguese Malacca, which was now protected by the fort A'Famosa, was attacked by the Acehnese. The battle lasted for weeks, and many buildings outside the A'Famosa were destroyed. The Acehnese were defeated when the Portuguese ships from Goa came to assist them. Despite being enemies, the Portuguese requested help from the Johor Riau empire. The Sultan of Johor Riau hated the Acehnese even more than the Portuguese, and defeated the Acehnese for good. After that, the Acehnese were not heard of again.

The Bugis and the Dutch

The Prince of Wales island, the new Kingdom of Perlis and the British in Malacca

The Bruneian Empire

While Malacca was in chaos, both the present day states of Sabah and Sarawak were under the loose control of the Bruneian empire, from the 15th

century to the 19th century, until the British came.

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International relations

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Head canons

-Her fringe, which is seperated into five represents the 5 secondary races, Malay, Chinese, Indian, Kadazan and Iban.

-The 'splitting' hair strand represents the straits of Malacca, one if the mist strategic straits in the world, which played a large part in the success of the Sultanate of Malacca, as well as why the Straits Settlements were formed.

- She has wavy hair due to her Indian, Malay and Negerito/Orang asli influences, and also because of the mountainous landscape of the Titiwangsa mountains and the states if Sabah and Sarawak.

-Long hair was favoured by many of the cultures in Malaysia, such as Malay, Chinese and Indian cultures.

-Jasmine flowers are one if the flowers used in Indian prayer garlands, and is also commonly worn in the hair if Indian women. They represent the Indian culture influences and their role in Malayan history. They also represent Malaysia's sick biodiversity and the two thirds of land that is covered in plants/flora.

-She does not wear a full, proper hijab because of Malaysia's self proclaimed status as a 'moderate Islamic country', or, 'a country that only recognises Islam as it's official religion'. However, on several occasions, she will wear a proper hijab.

-The yellow and black beads in her scarf are based off Sarawakian beadcraft, a handicraft that is respected in many cultures of Sarawak.

-Her silver coin belt is based off the traditional coin belts of Sabah and Sarawak, which is used in their traditional clothing.

This whole things is just a WIP...... So glad my hijab drawing practice paid off ;7;
Art and Malaysia OC © headstrong210
Hetalia © Himaruya Hidekaz