Nina Tucker

Nina Tucker is the four-year-old daughter of Shou Tucker, The "Sewing-Life Alchemist".

Appearance
Nina Tucker is a very cute young girl with blue eyes and long brown hair pulled back into braids which hang past her waist. She is also seen wearing a pink collared long-sleeved Polo under a blue jumper with bright yellow buttons. Her outfit includes some clogs.or mary janes for shoes. Her socks are what most school girls wear in japan.

Fullmetal Alchemist (Brotherhood - 2009)
In FMA brotherhood. She can be seen wearing a variety of outfits which were inspired by the manga. Her jumper outfit is golden yellow,with silver buttons,and a pink short sleeved shirt underneath. Her shoes and socks of choice remain the same though the color is a bit different.

She also sports a school uniform like shirt. Which is red with a collar on the back and a black line of decoration. She wears blueish-white shorts with this outfit. One can assume she attends school in this series contrary to the original where she appears to stay at home with her father.

Nina's eyes are also a bit deeper of a blue in brotherhood and her hair is more of a dark brown than reddish brown as in the earlier FMA anime.

As a Chimera
After being alchemically fused with the family dog Alexander by her father, Shou Tucker, Nina inhabits the body of a dog-like beast. This creature has a brown mane the same color as Nina's original hair. This chimera has the ability to speak, as did the chimera Tucker created from his wife, and is also incomplete, causing Nina-Alexander great pain.From what can be gathered

From what is known, most likely Alexander was a breed of dog known as a Great Pyrenees. After the Chimera is fused Alexander loses his oh so white fluffy appearance for a peach skinned hybrid creature with a carpet of hair growing out of it's back.It is also noted that Nina seems to be a bit unsure of her memories after the transfusion.

Background
At the point of original introduction, Nina Tucker is the young daughter of Shou Tucker, an alchemist with which Edward and Alphonse Elric stay for some time. Unfortunately, in order for Tucker to remain a State Alchemist and receive funding for his experiments into the creation of chimera, he transmutes his wife first. The first transmute failed and the chimera states that it would like to die, and does. Then his daughter. In an attempt to create talking chimeras. The only way to secure his funding was to transmute Nina and the family guard dog, Alexander, to create a second talking chimera to present to the State Military. Nina eventually escapes in chimera form, but was killed by Scar, much to the horror of Edward and Alphonse.

In the 2003 adaptation of Fullmetal Alchemist, Edward and Alphonse lived with Nina and Shou Tucker for a few months while Ed was busy studying for the Alchemy exam. Also in the first anime adaption, Nina helps deliver Gracia Hughes' daughter Elicia while Maes was out in a blizzard trying to get a doctor.

In the manga and 2009 adaptation, however, Her interaction with the Elric brothers spanned just a couple days. Despite this, the impact of her death is so traumatic that Edward suffers multiple nightmares involving her and becomes emotionally compromised whenever reminded of her. At the end of the series, Alphonse notes that their failure to save Nina continues to be a major point of motivation for them.

Nina's death also differs between the manga and the 2003 anime. In the first anime, Nina's body is completely destroyed, only leaving a splatter of blood on a wall down an alley way. We are told though that her remains were not destroyed due to Maes Hughes informing Edward that the remains had been collected, tested, and found. In the manga, her body remains intact, and she is killed alongside her father in their house (in the 2003 series, Nina was killed in an alley after Ed destroys the car she is being stolen away in. Nina appears to be frightened and ashamed of her appearance. Because of this she runs into an alleyway to escape the terror than is graphiclly killed by Scar).

Tucker later tries to recreate his daughter in Laboratory 5 in the 2003 anime. However, despite achieving the first-ever Flawless Human Transmutation and restoring Nina's human body, her soul could not be returned at all, thus rendering Tucker's goals as a complete failure (confirming Ed's statements). Tucker never really loved his daughter so he could not bring her soul back.

Revived Nina's Appearance
Nina is seen naked with her long hair being the only thing to cover her doll-like form. The first half of the body experiment, we see her body covered in hair which very much resembled how the chimera was draped in it. We also see, when Ed first discovers Tucker's work. A series of glass tanks containing the original chimera's body and then a Nina covered in brown fur. Her eyes appear to be empty and she also looks a bit older( 4 years later so she'd be 8). Her hair is also very long at this point. We also see a tank full of Nina's composed of animal sacrafices according to Shou,Nina's father.

Regardless of how long the brothers knew her, she made an extraordinary impact in their lives. This is best seen after the discovery of her death. Ed comments that despite all of their hard work and praise of their skills, they could not 'save one little girl,' comparing themselves to normal people. In Chapter 108, the incident is mentioned by Ed when he was willing to exchange his alchemy for his brother, saying he has always been a regular person. Alphonse says that he wants to redeem what happened with Nina right before he goes to study Alkhestry at the end of the manga.