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

Early Life

Born in Luxor, Egypt, Fenestrate spent much of vir youth wandering the city, spending hours on end in and around historical and archaeological sites. As vie grew up, vie began hearing what vie described as a form of music that could not be heard with one’s ears. When asked how one could hear music, if not with one's ears, vie was vague, saying “I dunno, I just kind of hear it with my face, you know? The normal way you hear stuff like that.” Vie has since described this phenomenon as “the universe’s symphony of resonant mundanities,” or as vie more affectionately deems it, “some real rad tunes.”

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

Freed from academia but inspired by vir time in Morocco, Fenestrate sought any and all opportunities to travel and see more of the world. Meanwhile, vir efforts to find a mentor in physics were fruitful as vie 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 vie became more fascinated with the history of objects and how their songs change with the events that occur in their presence. Vie dropped contact with Strongbody as vir search for answers took vem from physics to history. Through the following years Fenestrate went through an intense punk phase, learned to play the bassoon, gong, and piccolo, and moved to Tokyo. There, vie started rooming with future teammate Coolname Galvanic, discovered vie 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 vem, asking whether vie would like to join. Hoping to hear Blaseball’s own unique symphonic soundscape in person, Fenestrate accepted.

Vir 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 vir clear skill in the splort and excellent plate discipline, vie is often so focused on achieving hits with that particular resonance that vie ends up making poor contact with the ball. Vir batting career has been a long series of home runs, groundouts and flyouts, and vie is rarely actually seen on base where vie would be able to demonstrate vir baserunning prowess. Even so, vie 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 vir return, a reporter stopped vem on the street and vie 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 vir usual laid-back countenance and deliberate speech patterns, vir speech became notably slower and more prone to trailing off in the middle of a sentence, and vie has conducted few talks at the Lift’s community center since vir 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 verself thrust into the position almost by surprise as vir teammates went to vem for vir 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, while Fenestrate was too reluctant to commit to any course of action when so many options were available. Together, Pantheocide pulled Fenestrate out of vir 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 vir worst-performing seasons up until vie 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 mourning for three days, Fenestrate set vir grief aside and quietly announced that vie was unfit to act as sole captain of the Lift, and advised the team against appointing a replacement in light of the demise of the three previous captains.

Personal Life

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

Vie continues to co-inhabit vir 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, vie 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 vie has also been recorded referring to the twice-late Alejandro Leaf as vir 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 vie had admitted to feeling that he still just saw vem as the kid he mentored rather than the person that kid has become. Fenestrate has expressed mild discomfort at how vie found verself following so closely in Strongbody’s footsteps.

Trivia

• Although Fenestrate is recorded as having the "Tattooing" pregame ritual, this may be a clerical error: vie actually does henna, as tattooing is haram.
• Fenestrate is a polyglot. Vie is fluent in Egyptian Arabic, Classical Arabic, English, Japanese, ESL, and JSL, and vie has learned the basics of Spanish, Mandarin, and Hindi both from vir teammates and from traveling prior to joining the Lift.
• Fenestrate takes a lot of comfort in cooking, and occasionally calls home for recipes from vir aunts.
• In an interview, Fenestrate stated that if vie was to compete in any non-blaseball splort, vie would swim professionally.