Gracia Hughes

Gracia Hughes is the kind-hearted wife of Maes Hughes and mother of Elicia Hughes. In the 2003 anime series, Edward Elric, Alphonse Elric and Nina Tucker helped Gracia get through her delivery of the baby by being there for her. At the time Edward heats some water for Gracia without a Transmutation circle. Gracia is very kind throughout the series and sometimes makes cakes and sweets for the Elric brothers.

She plays a somewhat of a small role in the series, but her appearance does make a cameo in two critical scenes; the first is when Envy used her form as an advantage to stop Hughes from attacking him, then murdering him. The second is when Envy takes her form again in front of Mustang, boasting nonstop about how Hughes fell for such a cheap trick.



Trivia

 * Gracia's name is yet another of the many references to Ancient Greece, as "Graecia" is the name of the country in its native language.
 * Though the name most attributed to the pronunciation is "Gracia" and the name itself is a nod to "Graecia", Mrs. Hughes' name has been spelled "Glacier" both in an omake of the manga as well as in the Fullmetal Alchemist movie, presumably a mistake due to the identical pronunciation of the name and the term in Japanese.