Mrs. Tucker is the wife of the Sewing-Life Alchemist Shou Tucker and mother of their daughter Nina, whom she lived with in relatively modest conditions. While only mentioned in the main series, she is a supporting character in the prequel gaiden released in 2017.
Story[]
Nina's portrait of her family from the 2003 anime.
Initially, Mrs. Tucker was supportive of her husband despite his repeated failures to become a State Alchemist. But tensions rose between her and Tucker as a result of the latter becoming increasingly desperate, causing them to argue frequently after only a few years of marriage. This eventually led to Tucker going insane and "rewarding" his wife by using her as a test subject in his chimeric experimentation despite it being illegal, fusing her physical body with that of an unknown creature (probably one from his laboratory) to create a talking chimera.
Mrs. Tucker as a Chimera.
Falsifying reports that his wife left him and Nina for a better life, Tucker paraded the chimera that was his wife as the first chimera intelligent enough to perform human speech and earned his State Alchemist certification. But for proof that his creature could speak, it is reported that it only said one thing: "I want to die." Mortified by her husband's actions and constantly fraught with the physical pain of having been alchemically mutated into a chimera, Mrs. Tucker never uttered another word and starved herself to death shortly afterward. Justice would eventually come for Mrs. Tucker when her husband repeated his crime with their own daughter, Edward Elric nearly killing the man upon realizing what he did to his on family.
Trivia[]
- Interestingly, the family portrait drawn by Nina in the 2003 anime seems to show a completely different dog from Alexander, who is brown with a beige underside (Alexander himself is pure white in colour). It's possible that this was a dog formerly owned by the Tuckers when her mother was still alive, and may even be who Tucker merged with his wife to make her a chimera. The same drawing also reveals that Nina's mother has blonde hair.[1]
- The series' creator, Hiromu Arakawa, released a special manga chapter to mark the live-action film debut in Japan in December 2017. The special chapter turned out to be a prequel gaiden to the main story and it introduced Mrs. Tucker's appearance for the first time in manga.
References[]
- ↑ Episode 7 of the 2003 anime series, around the 6:30 mark.