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Fenestrate is a Black Muslim Egyptian who uses any pronouns. In Japanese, cy refers to cykeself as watashi and others refer to cyr with masculine and feminine terms interchangeably, and in Arabic cy is referred to with هي/هو interchangeably. Cy is autistic and has ADHD.
Early Life
Born in Luxor, Egypt, Fenestrate spent much of cyrs youth wandering the city and spending hours on end at museums. As cy grew up, cy started talking about music that could not be heard with one’s ears. When asked how cy heard the music, if not with cyrs ears, cy was vague, saying “I dunno, I just kind of hear it with my face, you know? The normal way you hear stuff like that.” Cy has since described this phenomenon as “the universe’s symphony of resonant mundanities,” or as cy more affectionately deems it, “some real rad tunes.”
Cy started school for physics, thinking cy might be better able to share the music with others if cy studied the forces that make up the immaterial plane. Fenestrate began cyrs studies in Morocco and then returned to Egypt to transfer to a university in Cairo, but soon after the move cy grew completely disillusioned with academia. Cy decided cy would benefit more from self-education that was built for cyrs way of learning instead of in spite of it, and dropped out to pursue cyrs own studies.
Freed from academia but inspired by cyrs time in Morocco, Fenestrate sought any and all opportunities to travel and see more of the world. Meanwhile, cyrs efforts to find a mentor in physics were fruitful as cy 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 cy became more fascinated with the history of objects and how their songs change with the events that occur in their presence. Cy dropped contact with Strongbody as cyrs search for answers took cyr from physics to history. Through the following years Fenestrate went through an intense punk phase, learned to play the fiddle, banjo, and wurlitzer, and moved to Tokyo. There, cy started rooming with future teammate Coolname Galvanic, discovered cy 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 cyr, asking whether cy would like to join. Hoping to hear Blaseball’s own unique symphonic soundscape in person, Fenestrate accepted.
Cyrs 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 cyrs clear skill in the splort and excellent plate discipline, cy is often so focused on achieving hits with that particular resonance that cy ends up making poor contact with the ball. cyrs batting career has been a long series of home runs, groundouts and flyouts, and cy is rarely actually seen on base where cy would be able to demonstrate cyrs baserunning prowess. Even so, cy 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 cyrs return, a reporter stopped cyr on the street and cy 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 cyrs usual laid-back countenance and deliberate speech patterns, cyrs speech became notably slower and more prone to trailing off in the middle of a sentence, and cy has conducted few talks at the Lift’s community center since cyrs 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 found themselves thrust into Strongbody’s position as captain of the Lift. The two already had some synergy, as the two had previously bonded over a mutual love of punk culture and their personalities balanced out. Fenestrate’s inclination to hesitate and fail to commit and Pantheocide’s inclination to commit wholeheartedly, sometimes without adequately thinking through, balanced themselves out. ---LMAO EDIT THIS---
The high of their Season 19 victory did not last for long, as the Lift experienced four roster changes, Pantheocide received her first level of Ego, and Fenestrate had one of cyrs worst-performing seasons up until cy 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 cyrs roommate, Fenestrate announced cy 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.
Cy continues to co-inhabit cyrs 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, cy 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 cy has also been recorded referring to the twice-late Alejandro Leaf as cyrs 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 cy had admitted to feeling that he still just saw cyr as the kid he mentored rather than the person that kid has become. Fenestrate has expressed mild discomfort at how cy found cykeself following so closely in Strongbody’s footsteps.
Trivia
- Although Fenestrate is recorded as having the "Tattooing" pregame ritual, this is a clerical error: cy actually does henna, as tattooing is haram.
- Fenestrate is a polyglot. Cy is fluent in Egyptian Arabic, Classical Arabic, English, Japanese, ESL, and JSL, and cy has learned the basics of Spanish, Mandarin, and Hindi both from cyrs teammates and from traveling prior to joining the Lift.
- Fenestrate takes a lot of comfort in cooking, and occasionally calls home for recipes from cyrs aunts.
- ↑ 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.
