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

Early Life

Born in Luxor, Egypt, Fenestrate spent much of hins youth wandering the city, spending hours on end in and around historical and archaeological sites. As hin grew up, hin began hearing what hin 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, hin was vague, saying “I dunno, I just kind of hear it with my face, you know? The normal way you hear stuff like that.” Hin has since described this phenomenon as “the universe’s symphony of resonant mundanities,” or as hin more affectionately deems it, “some real rad tunes.”

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

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

Hins 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 hins clear skill in the splort and excellent plate discipline, hin is often so focused on achieving hits with that particular resonance that hin ends up making poor contact with the ball. Hins batting career has been a long series of home runs, groundouts and flyouts, and hin is rarely actually seen on base where hin would be able to demonstrate hins baserunning prowess. Even so, hin 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 hins return, a reporter stopped hin on the street and hin 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 hins usual laid-back countenance and deliberate speech patterns, hins speech became notably slower and more prone to trailing off in the middle of a sentence, and hin has conducted few talks at the Lift’s community center since hins return. After subsequent trips Elsewhere, Fenestrate appeared less outwardly shaken, but still more subdued than usual.

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 hinself thrust into the position almost by surprise as hins teammates went to hin for hins level-headed judgement and advice. While on their own, Pantheocide was too quick to follow her 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 hins comfort zone to make decisions and commit, and Fenestrate directed Pantheocide's seemingly boundless energy in more productive ways. 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 in Season 19, and became fast friends.

The high of their Turntables-inducecd Championship did not last for long, as the Lift experienced four roster changes in one election, Pantheocide received their first level of Ego, and Fenestrate had one of hins worst-performing seasons up until hin 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 hins grief aside and quietly announced that hin 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 previous three captains.

Personal Life

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

Hin continues to co-inhabit hins old apartment with Galvanic, and the two have a close partnership. Additionally, hin 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 hin has also been recorded referring to the twice-late Alejandro Leaf as hins 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 hin had admitted to feeling that he still just saw hin as the kid he mentored rather than the person that kid has become. Fenestrate has since expressed mild discomfort at how hin found hinself following so closely in Strongbody’s footsteps.

Trivia

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