The Seventh Son Cover Picture
The Seventh Son
is an The Owl House fanfic by Cowboy Alchemist.
Luz Noceda is joined in her adventure to the Owl House by Booker Bridges, an orphaned kid wanting to escape his miserable life. Together, under the apprenticeship of Eda the Owl Lady, Booker and Luz find companionship and self-improvement.
This fanfic features examples of:
- A Birthday, Not a Break: Booker lost his family on his birthday to a fire that burned down his home.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: While Emperor Belos was introduced in the last two episodes of Season 1, here he appears in the fifth chapter of the story, where he is informed about Booker's existence.
- Adaptational Sexuality:
- While she is a lesbian in the canon series, Amity is bisexual in this story, meaning she becomes attracted to not just Luz, but also Booker.
- In the show, Skara had the unnamed bat student as her Grom date. Here, she is in a romantic relationship with Bo, who is a background character in the show.
- Edric falls in this as well. While he was Ambiguously Bi in the show, he becomes attracted to Booker's male cousin Roswell.
- The same applies to Lilith here. While canonically aroace, the story depicts Lilith as being romantically attracted to Booker's father, Malcolm. Not only that, but she was also in a Love Triangle against her sister Eda.
- Adaptational Villainy: In the canon show, Boscha was just a bully who targeted Luz and co. for petty reasons. Here, she is straight-up vile and controlling of her friends, such as Skara. In fact, she tries to kill Booker during their Grudgby match, only for Skara to step in.
- Alliterative Name: Booker Bridges.
- All of the Other Reindeer: Booker is disliked by the kids at school, the kids at the orphanage, and the nuns as well.
- Ascended Extra:
- Zigzagged with Amity. While she was already a major character in the show, Amity is given a bigger role in the rewrites of the Season 1 episodes, such as "Something Ventured, Someone Framed" and "The First Day". In fact, Amity gets to go on the field trip to Emperor Belos' castle instead of staying home in the rewrite of "Agony of a Witch".
- Skara gets this treatment as well. While she was mostly a background character, she is featured more in the story, where she is Booker's cousin, therefore making her a Bridges. In fact, she plays a major part in the rewrite of "Wing It Like Witches".
- Clothing Damage: In Chapter 17, Booker's lizard hoodie gets burned when he uses his powers during his fight with Belos.
- Cool Sword: Booker wields a sword called Dragon's Bite, which belonged to his family before him. The sword is made of anti-magic material which can repel any magic and can be called to Booker or any member of the Bridges family such as his uncle or cousin.
- Death by Adaptation: In the show, Warden Wrath reappeared in the Season 1 finale and was shown in Season 2. Here, he gets his head chopped off by Booker in the first chapter.
- Dies Differently In The Adaptation: While Adegast was eaten by Eda in the show, he gets stabbed in the head by Booker and falls to his death.
- Disappointed by the Motive: Booker is extremely unamused with Eda for forcing him to risk his life for a paper crown, even attacking Eda over it.
- Evil Overlooker: Emperor Belos is shown transparently looming over the main characters in the cover picture above.
- Foil: Both Luz and Booker are social outcasts, but both differ in their response to it.
- Luz prefers to Turn the Other Cheek and deals with her problems by laughing them off.
- Booker uses his fists and aggressions to deal with them.
- Foreshadowing: In Chapter 17, during his fight with Booker, Belos remarks that the boy doesn't remember him, to which Booker replies that he doesn't.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Booker reacts violently to any slight, causing him to be sent to the principal's office. He especially hates whenever people call attention to his height.
- Happily Adopted: Since the death of his family, Eda starts thinking of Booker as the son she never had. By Chapter 17, she officially adopts him as her son.
- Height Angst: Booker, naturally. He eventually gains a magical growth spurt in Chapter 18 as a result of himself and Luz staying in the Demon Realm.
- Honorary Aunt: Throughout the first half of the story, Booker refers to Eda as "Aunt Eda". In Chapter 17, she officially becomes his adoptive mother, all while earning the nickname "Mama Eda".
- Human Alien Discovery: Booker is stunned to learn that his family are not humans, but are descended from the Boiling Isles.
- It's All My Fault: At the end of Chapter 12, once Booker asks to see his memory from his birthday, which was the day his family died, he sees a photo of himself summoning the fire spell, which consequently leads to him reaching the conclusion that it was his spell that started the fire that killed his family. This immediately causes him to break down in tears, and he starts blaming himself for his family's death. Eda comforts him by hugging him and tells him what happened wasn't his fault.
- Loyal Phlebotinum: Booker's sword, Dragon's Bite, can be called only to any member of the Bridges family.
- Magical Seventh Son: True to the title, Booker himself is the seventh son of his father Malcolm, who is the seventh son of Tom Bridges.
- Named by the Adaptation: The snot-nosed toddler from "Escape of the Palisman" is named Gray in this story.
- Nun Too Holy: The nun does not at all sympathize with Booker and the bullying he endures and mutters about how the cardinal is wasting his time on him.
- Only Friend: Luz is this to Booker, who is the only person willing to celebrate his birthday. Booker is also this to Luz.
- Parental Substitute: At the orphanage, Father Dean is the closest thing Booker has to a parental figure. Dean cares for Booker, but finds him to be a handful to deal with.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
- In chapter 15, Booker lays one out for Luz not only endangering her friends with a move from an Azura movie during Grudgby training, but for all the times her impulsiveness became a problem, both before and after arriving to the Boiling Isles. While Booker regrets saying all of that stuff, Luz admits that she never took into account how her reckless and impulsive actions, desire to live out her fantasies, and refusal to acknowledge the reality of the situation have consequences.
"This is exactly what [Booker] been saying all day! All this time, [Luz] been so focused on living out your fantasies that you fail to consider other people! None of this would have happened if you had kept your mouth shut! After all the times I had your back and after all the sh** you put me through, I would have thought you would at least learn by now. But no! You just keep getting people you know into bad situations!"- King later lays one out for Booker's uncle York in chapter 17 when he refuses to help Booker and his friends break into the Conformatorium and free Eda.
"So that's it?! After all that talk to Booker about leading a revolution and getting back at Belos, [York] chose to hide like a coward?! [...] Y-You heard [King], coward! As the King of the Demons, you're going to listen to me! You're the Crow Wizard! The witch who's been inspiring many to stand up against Belos. And now, when you have a chance to strike at the heart of Belos' institution, you think you're not powerful enough to stop a petrification ceremony? Not only that, you're just gonna let your friend, Booker's new mom, die?! Without even a fight?! You say you're protecting your family, but you're letting your family die right now. This isn't you being cautious. This is you hiding like a coward! If you can't do what's right for your family, then you don't deserve to wear that mask!" - Related in the Adaptation: Skara and the Usurper (named Gray in the story) are shown to be siblings in Chapter 9, whereas they are unrelated in the actual show.
- Ruder and Cruder: This story has a ton of adult language than anyone would expect in a Disney cartoon.
- Running Gag:
- Every time Booker's height is mentioned.
- Every so often, a character will wonder why they put up with two certain someone's. To which, they respond, "Because we own you" and "Because you love us."
- Shout-Out: Booker lashing out when someone brings up his height will bring to mind Edward Elric.
- Trauma Button: Fire is this one to Booker, since it's how his family died on the day of his 7th birthday.
- Would Hit a Girl: In a flashback in Chapter 4, Booker attacked one of the female bullies for taunting him about the death of his family, something that said bully lambasts him for.
