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Fenestrate is a Black Muslim Egyptian who uses any pronouns. In Japanese, vey refers to vemself as watashi and others refer to vem with masculine and feminine terms interchangeably, and in Arabic vey is likewise referred to with هي/هو interchangeably. Vey is autistic and has ADHD.
Early Life
Born in Luxor, Egypt, Fenestrate spent much of veirs youth wandering the city, spending hours on end in and around historical and archaeological sites. As vey grew up, vey began hearing what vey 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, vey was vague, saying “I dunno, I just kind of hear it with my face, you know? The normal way you hear stuff like that.” Vey has since described this phenomenon as “the universe’s symphony of resonant mundanities,” or as vey more affectionately deems it, “some real rad tunes.”
Vey started school for physics, thinking vey might be better able to share the music with others if vey studied the forces that make up the immaterial plane. Fenestrate began veirs studies in Morocco and then returned to Egypt to transfer to a university in Cairo, but soon after the move vey grew completely disillusioned with academia. Vey decided vey would benefit more from self-education that was built for veirs way of learning instead of in spite of it, and dropped out to pursue veirs own studies.
Freed from academia but inspired by veirs time in Morocco, Fenestrate sought any and all opportunities to travel and see more of the world. Meanwhile, veirs efforts to find a mentor in physics were fruitful as vey 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 vey became more fascinated with the history of objects and how their songs change with the events that occur in their presence. Vey dropped contact with Strongbody as veirs research took vem 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, vey started rooming with future teammate Coolname Galvanic, discovered vey 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 vem, asking whether vey would like to join. Hoping to hear Blaseball’s own unique symphonic soundscape in person, Fenestrate accepted.
Veirs 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 veirs clear skill in the splort and excellent plate discipline, vey is often so focused on achieving hits with that particular resonance that vey ends up making poor contact with the ball. Veirs batting career has been a long series of home runs, groundouts and flyouts, and vey is rarely actually seen on base where vey would be able to demonstrate veirs baserunning prowess. Even so, vey 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 veirs return, a reporter stopped vem on the street and vey 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 veirs usual laid-back countenance and deliberate speech patterns, veirs speech became notably slower and more prone to trailing off in the middle of a sentence, and vey has conducted few talks at the Lift’s community center since veirs 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 vemself thrust into the position almost by surprise as veirs teammates went to vem for veirs level-headed judgement and advice. While on his own, Pantheocide was too quick to follow his 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 veirs 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 veirs worst-performing seasons up until vey 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 veirs grief aside and quietly announced that vey 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.
Vey continues to co-inhabit veirs old apartment with Galvanic, and the two have a close partnership. Additionally, vey 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 vey has also been recorded referring to the twice-late Alejandro Leaf as veirs 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 vey 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 since expressed mild discomfort at how vey found vemself following so closely in Strongbody’s footsteps.
Trivia
- Although Fenestrate is recorded as having the "Tattooing" pregame ritual, this may be a clerical error: vey actually does henna, as tattooing is haram.
- Fenestrate is a polyglot. Vey is fluent in Egyptian Arabic, Classical Arabic, English, Japanese, ESL, and JSL, and vey has learned the basics of Spanish, Mandarin, and Hindi both from veirs teammates and from traveling prior to joining the Lift.
- Fenestrate takes a lot of comfort in cooking, and occasionally calls home for recipes from veirs aunts.
- In an interview, Fenestrate stated that if vey was to compete in any non-blaseball splort, vey would swim professionally.
- ↑ 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.
