How Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood Failed Nina Tucker

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While many fans would argue that if anyone was about to start watching Fullmetal Alchemist you shouldn't even bother with the original 2003 run and jump straight into the Brotherhood remake, there are some things that are just done better the first time. No one expected that to be the iconically tragic arc of Nina and Shou Tucker. The divergence between Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood exists because the former was aired before the manga's completion. The 2003 version had a little more wiggle room in regard to filler, and this proved to be advantageous when it came to the mutilation and murder of Nina Tucker. As opposed to the manga and Brotherhood, Edward Elric and his younger brother, Alphonse, are twelve and eleven and will be studying at the home of the Sewing Life Alchemist, Shou Tucker, as they prepare for Edward's State Alchemist assessments.

Shou Tucker is known for his ability to combine different animals together to make chimeras and received his State Alchemist position because of a chimera that could talk. His next assessment is fast approaching, and his unsettling and slightly threatening nature make him an awkward study partner. Tucker's rising stress hovers over every study session, and if that wasn't a distraction enough, the Elrics end up spending most of their time playing with Tucker's fiver year old daughter, Nina, and her dog, Alexander. The Elrics and Nina spent days together, and when Edward passed his assessment, Nina sat on Alphonse's shoulders at the ceremony. When Ed's birthday came around, the three of them were invited to Maes Hughes' home where his pregnant wife, Gracia, gave birth to Elicia. With Nina present in so many events in the Elrics' lives, her father's