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====The Fifth Base====
 
====The Fifth Base====
 
In Season 22, Fenestrate picked up [[The Fifth Base (Item)|the Fifth Base]] in a game against the Georgias at the very last moment, tying the game up, but put it back down in the Gym the next day, right before [[Super Roamin']] was due to send {{RandomPronoun|lower|object|save=true|table={{User:NautALoid/hugepronountable}}}} to another team. Fenestrate declined to comment on what drove {{RandomPronoun|lower|object|save=true|table={{User:NautALoid/hugepronountable}}}} pick up the base in the first place, and what made {{RandomPronoun|lower|object|save=true|table={{User:NautALoid/hugepronountable}}}} change {{RandomPronoun|lower|possessive|save=true|table={{User:NautALoid/hugepronountable}}}} mind.
 
In Season 22, Fenestrate picked up [[The Fifth Base (Item)|the Fifth Base]] in a game against the Georgias at the very last moment, tying the game up, but put it back down in the Gym the next day, right before [[Super Roamin']] was due to send {{RandomPronoun|lower|object|save=true|table={{User:NautALoid/hugepronountable}}}} to another team. Fenestrate declined to comment on what drove {{RandomPronoun|lower|object|save=true|table={{User:NautALoid/hugepronountable}}}} pick up the base in the first place, and what made {{RandomPronoun|lower|object|save=true|table={{User:NautALoid/hugepronountable}}}} change {{RandomPronoun|lower|possessive|save=true|table={{User:NautALoid/hugepronountable}}}} mind.
===Personal Life===
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===Relationships===
 
As a generally good-natured and mellow-mannered individual, Fenestrate has few troubles getting along with most members of the Lift.  
 
As a generally good-natured and mellow-mannered individual, Fenestrate has few troubles getting along with most members of the Lift.  
  

Revision as of 16:17, 11 March 2022

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

Early Life

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

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

Freed from academia but inspired by per time in Morocco, Fenestrate sought any and all opportunities to travel and see more of the world. Meanwhile, per efforts to find a mentor in physics were fruitful as per 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 per became more fascinated with the history of objects and how their songs change with the events that occur in their presence. Per dropped contact with Strongbody as per research took per 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, per started rooming with future teammate Coolname Galvanic, discovered per was aromantic after attempting to date Galvanic and breaking up on amicable terms[1], 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 per, asking whether per would like to join. Hoping to hear Blaseball’s own unique symphonic soundscape in person, Fenestrate accepted.

Per 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 per clear skill in the splort and excellent plate discipline, per is often so focused on achieving hits with that particular resonance that per ends up making poor contact with the ball. Per batting career has been a long series of home runs, groundouts and flyouts, and per is rarely actually seen on base where per would be able to demonstrate per baserunning prowess. Even so, per 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 per return, a reporter stopped per on the street and per 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 per usual laid-back countenance and deliberate speech patterns, per speech became notably slower and more prone to trailing off in the middle of a sentence, and per has conducted few talks at the Lift’s community center since per 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 perself thrust into the position almost by surprise as per teammates went to per for per level-headed judgement and advice. While on their own, Pantheocide was too quick to follow their 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 per 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 music and 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-induced Championship did not last for long, as the Lift experienced four roster changes in one election, Pantheocide received her first level of Ego, and Fenestrate had one of per worst-performing seasons up until per was swept Elsewhere on Day 59. Fenestrate arrived back, newly Negative and heavily Scattered for the first time, shortly Pantheocide's death. After a short period of mourning, Fenestrate set per grief aside and quietly announced that per 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.

The Fifth Base

In Season 22, Fenestrate picked up the Fifth Base in a game against the Georgias at the very last moment, tying the game up, but put it back down in the Gym the next day, right before Super Roamin' was due to send per to another team. Fenestrate declined to comment on what drove per pick up the base in the first place, and what made per change per mind.

Relationships

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

Fenestrate's relationship with Strongbody was complicated, and the two remained somewhat distant and awkward up until Strongbody's incineration. Per had admitted to feeling that he still just saw per as the kid he mentored rather than the person that kid has become.

Per continues to co-inhabit per old apartment with Galvanic, and the two have a close partnership. Additionally, per 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 per has also been recorded referring to the twice-late Alejandro Leaf as per aunt on several occasions despite sharing no publicly-known familial connections. Fenestrate taught Persephone "Percy" Dumpington to use henna while she was still on the Lift, and they still meet up after Lift/Tigers series to get coffee and refresh each others' henna (Fenestrate) and paint (Dumpington).

Trivia

  • Although Fenestrate is recorded as having the "Tattooing" pregame ritual, this may be a clerical error: per actually does henna, as tattooing is haram.
  • Fenestrate is a polyglot. Per is fluent in Egyptian Arabic, Classical Arabic, English, Japanese, ESL, and JSL, and per has learned the basics of Spanish, Mandarin, and Hindi both from per teammates and from traveling prior to joining the Lift.
  • Fenestrate takes a lot of comfort in cooking, and occasionally calls home for recipes from per aunts.
  • In an interview, Fenestrate stated that if per was to compete in any non-blaseball splort, per would like to swim professionally.
  • Fenestrate is an accomplished glassblower. Per makes per own glass masks and windows, wearing different windows for different outfits and occasions. In particular, per wears masks that incorporate the Evil Eye into the design during solar eclipses as a ward. Per also has made Evil Eye necklaces and bracelets for all per teammates.
  1. The date was at a local Costco. Years later, they mentioned the failed Costco Date to Pantheocide, who delightedly told Val Hitherto, and before long the entire team knew. The infamous Costco Date became a long-running joke that would culminate in many members actually going on their own ironic Costco Dates until it became a celebrated Lift tradition.