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

Early Life

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

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

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

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

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 themself thrust into the position almost by surprise as their teammates went to them for their 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 their 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 their first level of Ego, and Fenestrate had one of their worst-performing seasons up until they was swept Elsewhere on Day 59. Fenestrate arrived back, newly Negative and heavily Scattered for the first time, shortly before Pantheocide's death. After a short period of mourning, Fenestrate set their grief aside and quietly announced that they 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 them to another team. Fenestrate declined to comment on what drove them pick up the base in the first place, and what made them change their mind.

Relationships

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

Despite their previous acquaintance, Fenestrate and Strongbody remained somewhat distant and awkward up until Strongbody's incineration. They once admitted to feeling that he still just saw them as the kid he mentored rather than the person that kid has become.

They continues to co-inhabit their old apartment with Galvanic, and the two have a close partnership. Additionally, they has what has been described as a "complicated" relationship with Grollis Zephyr, rents a makerspace in Tokyo with Concrete Mandible, Terrell Bradley, and Theodore Honeywell, and they has also been recorded referring to the twice-late Alejandro Leaf as their aunt on several occasions despite sharing no publicly-known familial connections. Fenestrate taught Persephone "Percy" Violence 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 (Violence).

Trivia

• Although Fenestrate is recorded as having the "Tattooing" pregame ritual, this may be a clerical error: they actually does henna, as tattooing is haram.
• Fenestrate is a polyglot. They is fluent in Egyptian Arabic, Classical Arabic, English, Japanese, ESL, and JSL, and they has learned the basics of Spanish, Mandarin, and Hindi both from their teammates and from traveling prior to joining the Lift.
• Fenestrate takes a lot of comfort in cooking, and occasionally calls home for recipes from their aunts.
• In an interview, Fenestrate stated that if they was to compete in any non-blaseball splort, they would like to swim professionally.
• Fenestrate is a skilled glassblower. They makes their own glass masks and windows, wearing different windows for different outfits and occasions. In particular, they wears masks that incorporate the Evil Eye into the design during solar eclipses as a ward. They also has made Evil Eye necklaces and bracelets for all their teammates.
• Fenestrate is a hobbyist composer and multi-instrumentalist. Their music is often esoteric, relying as much on the sonic texture inherent to objects as on more traditional musical instruments.