Gracia Hughes

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Gracia Hughes
Names and Titles
Full Name	Gracia Hughes Glacier Hughes Gracier
Kanji	グレイシア･ヒューズ
Personal Details
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Nationality	Amestrian
Residence	Central City, Amestris
Characteristics
Family	Maes Hughes (Husband, deceased) Elicia Hughes (Daughter)
Abilities	Childcare and Cooking
Series Information
Debut	Chapter 14OG Episode 603 Episode 109
Voice Actor	Lauren Goode (Series)03 Anastasia Munoz09 Lydia Mackay (OVAs)03 Ryan Bartley (2017)
Seiyū	Kotono Mitsuishi03 Tomoe Hanba09

Gracia Hughes (グレイシア･ヒューズ, Gureishia Hyūzu) is the kind-hearted wife of Lt. Colonel Maes Hughes and the mother of Elicia Hughes.

Manga / 2009 Anime

Personality and role wise, Gracia is very kind throughout the series who occasionally makes cakes and sweets for the Elric brothers and Winry Rockbell. She plays a somewhat 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 her husband from attacking, then murdering him. The second when Envy takes her form again in front of Roy Mustang, boasting nonstop about how her husband fell for such a cheap trick.

She is seen again in the final chapter, where she and her daughter are visited by Alphonse Elric.

Gracia and Elicia appear briefly in the 4th opening sequence.

2003 Anime

In the 2003 anime series, Gracia first appears in Episode 6 where, in place of the Manga character Satella LeCoulte, she is heavily pregnant. As it is Edward Elric's birthday, Gracia and her husband offer him, his brother Alphonse Elric and their young friend Nina Tucker their hospitality. The Elrics and Nina are amazed at how close Gracia is to giving birth, Ed and Al refrain from feeling her stomach but Nina is brave enough to do so. That evening, Gracia goes into labor causing everyone to panic until Maes gathers his composure and goes to find help in a blizzard, leaving the Elrics and Nina with Gracia.

Attempting to put on a brave face, Gracia lies on the sofa with Nina wiping her forehead. Once the labor pains kick in, however, Gracia's screams cause the Elrics and Nina to panic again and they continue to scream and argue until Gracia demands them to stop it. Once all is calm, Nina discovers the water they brought for Gracia has gone cold so Ed reheats it using Alchemy without a transmutation circle, discovering a new talent of his. When the baby is being born, the Elrics and Nina start screaming and arguing again but nonetheless, they help to deliver Gracia's baby and she thanks them for being there for her.

In the following episode, Gracia takes over looking after the infant Elicia while Maes is talking to Ed about Shou Tucker's research.

Conqueror of Shamballa

In Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa, Ed meets a parallel version of Gracia. She works as a florist and lends clothes to Noah. She is later seen again at the end of the movie at Alfons Heiderich's funeral.

The parallel version of Maes Hughes, who is an officer, is shown to be friendly with her and even have feelings for the alternate version of Gracia, but unlike the Amestrian Maes has yet to confess anything to her, something Edward encourages him to do.

Trivia

• Though the name most attributed to her is "Gracia", which is what was used in the 2009 anime adaptation and all English media, Mrs. Hughes' name has been spelled "Glacier" both in an omake of the manga as well as in Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa. This is presumably a mistake rather than intentional, as the name "Gracia" and the English word "Glacier" are both pronounced identically with a Japanese accent, and can even be written the same in katakana.
  • Coincidentally, her Japanese name, グレイシア, is identical to the Pokémon Glaceon's Japanese name, which was chosen for the Pokémon due to the aforementioned similarity to the word glacier. The Pokémon's name itself is spelt Glacia by The Pokémon Company when romanised into English, which is very similar to Gracia's usual spelling of her name.
• Gracia and her daughter Elicia have similar names in both the English and Japanese versions of Fullmetal Alchemist. In English, both have six letter long names and both names end with the same last two syllables. Most English media also spell their names with the same last three letters (cia), although Elicia's name is sometimes written Elysia in English, but it's still pronounced the same. Meanwhile, in Japanese, their names are pronounced similarly as "Gureishia" and "Erishia", both having an R consonant in their second syllable and both ending with the same two characters (シア).