Screechy

Four Screeching

“	No more screechy please!	”
	— X, Getting Teardrop to Talk

Screech is a type of verbal abuse that is performed by Four. It is generally done when Four is prompted to speak. The term was at first coined by X, when telling Four to stop screeching. In Fortunate Ben, however, everyone refers to it as "the screech".

Effects

Clock's resonant frequency happens to match with the screech.

Generally, the screech is a loud, earsplitting sound that causes some effects on the victim. These symptoms include:

• Dizziness
• Fainting
• Paralysis
• Confusions
• Stuns
• Violent Shaking
• Death (very rarely)

The victim generally recovers shortly after the screech.

Love Hearts

Love Hearts is a type of item that Four shoots out of his eyes and mouth when he sees something he adores.

Four screeches for (at least) 2 reasons: the first is when stunning and/or harming a contestant, or when he likes something. The hearts themselves are solid, thus they can hurt someone. Eraser was hit by a heart and flung through the sky, while screaming. The second appearance the Love Hearts made was during "Today's Very Special Episode", where there were roughly 345 hearts shown.

Woody arguably used them with Teardrop in "Take the Plunge: Part 1".

Victims

Victim	Count
8-Ball[7]	1
Bell[3]	1
Bracelety	1
Clock[1][7]	3
Donut[5]	2
Eraser[3]	1
Lollipop[4]	2
Marker[3]	1
Match[1]	1
Pen[6][7][8]	3
Pillow[2][8]	2
Saw[5][6]	1
Taco	1
Tree[8]	3
Woody	1
X	3
Yellow Face[4]	1
Rest of Death P.A.C.T.[8]	1

^[1] Screeched non-canonically

^[2] Killed by screech

^[3] Screeched from Love Hearts

^[4] Screeched in ear

^[5] Screeched by audio recorder

^[6] Screeched, but got no effect

^[7] Partially screeched

^[8] Screeched, then/or eaten

Names

• Screech (X)
• Screechy (X)
• The Screech (Pen, Lollipop, Liy)

Trivia

• Four's screech itself is from Freesound (a sound database that anyone can upload and download), available under the Creative Commons Zero License. Here is the link to the uncut sound.
• In real life, Four's screech must be louder than 120 decibels in order to cause damage.
• X, Clock, Pen, and Tree are currently the only characters to have been screeched 3 times.
  • Lollipop and Donut were screeched at the second-most amount of times, at 2.
• Donut was the first contestant to be screeched at by Four.
  • Coincidentally, he later became a host after Four and X got multiplied.
• Bracelety and 8-Ball are currently the only eliminated contestants to have been screeched at.
• The love hearts are red in BFDI 1a, however in "Today's Very Special Episode", they are pink-ish red.
• The love hearts have only appeared twice: once in BFDI 1a, and again in "Today's Very Special Episode".
• Match is the only contestant to be screeched at outside a BFB episode.
  • She is also the first person screeched at in 2018.
• Love Hearts are performed when Four screeches in excitement or when he loves something related to him. They are used in Today's Very Special Episode.
• Canonically speaking, Woody and Pen are the only original BFDI contestants to have been screeched at.
• Pen is the first contestant to ask for a screech, although he chose it over an insult from X.
• Pillow is the first (and possibly only) person who has been killed by a screech.
  • Her death, however, might not have been from the screech itself, as Four was clawing at her when she tried to suffocate him while he was screeching.
• Four has screeched in every episode he has appeared in, except for BFB 11 and 12, at Pillow in BFB 1, Clock in BFB 2, Woody in BFB 3, Eraser in BFB 4, Lollipop in BFB 5, Yellow Face in BFB 6, 8-Ball in BFB 10, and Death P.A.C.T in BFB 13.
• In Fortunate Ben, when Caedmon Johnson A.K.A SuperScratchKat animates Four screeching at Pen, the movement of Four's mouth, it looks like the beak of a bird, therefore being called "the Bird Screech".
• In Questions Answered, Donut was affected by a recorded screech.
  • This confirms that the screech can still affect a contestant even when it's just a recording of it.
  • The audio recorded version may only work on certain contestants. This is because Saw was not affected by it.

Gallery

Four screeching GIF

Four screeching idle

Screeched Eye Template

Bracelety getting screeched

X telling Four to stop, he doesn't...

X being screeched by Four

Four screeching in excitement in Today's Very Special Episode.

Tree being screeched

Four screeching Lollipop.

Four's extra weird screech at Pen

Four screeching Yellow Face through his earmuffs

Four screeching at Match 1

Four screeching at Match 2

Donut getting affected by the audio recorder.

Four screeching 8-Ball because he said that 4 is not an important number

Pillow getting screeched for the 2nd time

Four
Interactions with	Everyone, X, Donut
Locations	Eternal Algebra Class Withfour, Unnamed Classroom, Four Shaped Landscape, The Fourest
Others	Screechy, Zappies, Mutilation, Anti-Flying Button, Duct Tape, Have Cots, Season 43