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Fenestrate is a Black Muslim Egyptian who uses any pronouns. In Japanese, e refers to imself as watashi and others refer to im with masculine and feminine terms interchangeably, and in Arabic e is likewise referred to with هي/هو interchangeably. E is autistic and has ADHD.

Early Life

Born in Luxor, Egypt, Fenestrate spent much of er youth wandering the city and spending hours on end at museums. As e grew up, e started talking about music that could not be heard with one’s ears. When asked how e heard the music, if not with er ears, e was vague, saying “I dunno, I just kind of hear it with my face, you know? The normal way you hear stuff like that.” E has since described this phenomenon as “the universe’s symphony of resonant mundanities,” or as e more affectionately deems it, “some real rad tunes.”

E started school for physics, thinking e might be better able to share the music with others if e studied the forces that make up the immaterial plane. Fenestrate began er studies in Morocco and then returned to Egypt to transfer to a university in Cairo, but soon after the move e grew completely disillusioned with academia. E decided e would benefit more from self-education that was built for er way of learning instead of in spite of it, and dropped out to pursue er own studies.

Freed from academia but inspired by er time in Morocco, Fenestrate sought any and all opportunities to travel and see more of the world. Meanwhile, er efforts to find a mentor in physics were fruitful as e came into contact with acclaimed mathematician and buff fitness buff Stijn Strongbody. The two spent some time exchanging mail about their theories. Fenestrate’s interests eventually shifted and e became more fascinated with the history of objects and how their songs change with the events that occur in their presence. E dropped contact with Strongbody as er search for answers took im from physics to history. Through the following years Fenestrate went through an intense punk phase, learned to play the piano, synths, and accordion, and moved to Tokyo. There, e started rooming with future teammate Coolname Galvanic, discovered e was aromantic after attempting to date Galvanic and breaking up on amicable terms, and came out as genderfluid.

Blaseball Career

After Strongbody performed what some on the Lift would later wistfully refer to as some “epic future vision math,” the events of 1997 allowed him to catch glimpses of the future where he recognized his former protege Fenestrate among the players on the yet-unformed team. The void left by the Ascension of the Baltimore Crabs and his rush to create the team of his vision prompted him to contact im, asking whether e would like to join. Hoping to hear Blaseball’s own unique symphonic soundscape in person, Fenestrate accepted.

Er performance since joining the Lift has been somewhat underwhelming. Fenestrate has told reporters that the sound of a home run is like no other, and despite er clear skill in the splort and excellent plate discipline, e is often so focused on achieving hits with that particular resonance that e ends up making poor contact with the ball. Er batting career has been a long series of home runs, groundouts and flyouts, and e is rarely actually seen on base where e would be able to demonstrate er baserunning prowess. Even so, e easily remained one of the team’s better batters through the first half of the Expansion Era.

Time Spent Elsewhere

During the Lift’s final game of Season 14, Fenestrate was swept Elsewhere, and was there for the entirety of the two-year long siesta. Several months after er return, a reporter stopped im on the street and e commented on a peculiar quality of the space:

“[The world] has always been a place of music to me. Every object... every being resonates with its own particular sound to create an impossible symphony beyond anything our ears can sense. Rubber-insulated wires and decomposing bark alike sing in languages I can’t really ever hope to translate for you. So while you may not quite understand the gravity of the situation, I’ll ask you to at least try to imagine what was going through my head when I was Elsewhere and everything was silent. I’ve never really experienced that before... It shook me. Yeah. I’d say it shook me far more than I would have expected.”

Despite maintaining er usual laid-back countenance and deliberate speech patterns, er speech became notably slower and more prone to trailing off in the middle of a sentence, and e has conducted few talks at the Lift’s community center since er return. After subsequent trips Elsewhere, Fenestrate still appeared subdued but less outwardly shaken.

Captainship

After the respective redaction and incineration of Lift vice-captain Lance Serotonin and captain Strongbody, Fenestrate and Gerund Pantheocide replaced them as co-captains of the Lift. While Pantheocide leapt to the task, Fenestrate found imself thrust into the position almost by surprise as er teammates went to im for er level-headed judgement and advice. While on her own, Pantheocide was too quick to follow his heart and commit wholeheartedly to the task at hand without adequately thinking things through, Fenestrate was too reluctant to commit to any course of action when so many options were available. Together, Pantheocide pulled Fenestrate out of er noncommittal comfort zone and Fenestrate reigned Pantheocide's enthusiastic leadership in to manageable levels. Having previously bonded over a shared love of punk culture, the two further bonded through the consistent push and pull of their joint leadership that propelled the Lift forwards to their first Championship, and became fast friends.

The high of their Season 19 victory did not last for long, as the Lift experienced four roster changes, Pantheocide received his first level of Ego, and Fenestrate had one of er worst-performing seasons up until e was swept Elsewhere on Day 59. Fenestrate arrived back, newly Negative and heavily Scattered for the first time, shortly before the death of Pantheocide. After a period of no contact with any members of the Lift but er roommate, Fenestrate announced e would be stepping down as sole captain of the Lift, and there would be no replacement.

Personal Life

As a generally good-natured and mellow-mannered individual, Fenestrate has few troubles getting along with most members of the Lift.

E continues to co-inhabit er old apartment with Galvanic, and the two have a close partnership where they are said to know each other like they know nobody else. Additionally, e has what has been described as a “part-time queerplatonic relationship” with Grollis Zephyr, rents a makerspace in Tokyo with Concrete Mandible, Terrell Bradley, and Theodore Honeywell, and e has also been recorded referring to the twice-late Alejandro Leaf as er aunt on several occasions despite sharing no publicly-known familial connections.

Up until shortly before Strongbody's incineration, Fenestrate's relationship with him remained distant and awkward, and e had admitted to feeling that he still just saw im as the kid he mentored rather than the person that kid has become. Fenestrate has expressed mild discomfort at how e found imself following so closely in Strongbody’s footsteps.

Trivia

• Although Fenestrate is recorded as having the "Tattooing" pregame ritual, this may be a clerical error: e actually does henna, as tattooing is haram.
• Fenestrate is a polyglot. E is fluent in Egyptian Arabic, Classical Arabic, English, Japanese, ESL, and JSL, and e has learned the basics of Spanish, Mandarin, and Hindi both from er teammates and from traveling prior to joining the Lift.
• Fenestrate takes a lot of comfort in cooking, and occasionally calls home for recipes from er aunts.