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'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a lineup player for the [[Tokyo Lift]], and has been with the team since the [[Season 10#Election Results|Season 10 elections]].
 
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==List of Notable Hobbies, Skills, and Interests==
 
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==Fan Works==
 
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=== Fanfiction ===
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''<small>For more fanfiction, go to the [https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Yusef%20Fenestrate%20(Blaseball)/works Yusef Fenestrate tag] on AO3.</small>''
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* [https://archiveofourown.org/works/32354089 taking inches for miles] by waveridden - On Yusef, elsewhere, and divine harmony.
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=== Fanart ===
 
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File:Yusef Fenestrate Tred.png|alt=Yusef Fenestrate is a Middle Eastern person with long curly hair and tattooed arms. Their face, chest, and shoulders are four-paned windows of varying sizes with a purple and pink galaxy behind. Their left shoulder's window is open and a blue bird stands in it.|Art by [https://twitter.com/tredlocity @tredlocity]
 
File:Yusef Fenestrate Tred.png|alt=Yusef Fenestrate is a Middle Eastern person with long curly hair and tattooed arms. Their face, chest, and shoulders are four-paned windows of varying sizes with a purple and pink galaxy behind. Their left shoulder's window is open and a blue bird stands in it.|Art by [https://twitter.com/tredlocity @tredlocity]
 
File:Yusef Fenestrate Tred Multi.png|alt=Yusef is shown in a variety of poses. There is a fullbody shot where they are looking up, a waist up shot where they have rolled up one of their sleeves to flex and point to their tattoos as if explaining them, and three bust shots: in one they is sleeping with their curtains drawn over their face, in one they hold a blaseball bat, and in the last they sneeze and Garfield crashes out of the window. All are wearing a pink and desaturated dark blue Lift uniform with a turtleneck underneath and a blaseball cap on his head.|Art by [https://twitter.com/tredlocity @tredlocity]
 
File:Yusef Fenestrate Tred Multi.png|alt=Yusef is shown in a variety of poses. There is a fullbody shot where they are looking up, a waist up shot where they have rolled up one of their sleeves to flex and point to their tattoos as if explaining them, and three bust shots: in one they is sleeping with their curtains drawn over their face, in one they hold a blaseball bat, and in the last they sneeze and Garfield crashes out of the window. All are wearing a pink and desaturated dark blue Lift uniform with a turtleneck underneath and a blaseball cap on his head.|Art by [https://twitter.com/tredlocity @tredlocity]
File:Yusef and Grollis.png|alt=Yusef is a tall black Egyptian person with a window for a face. They are wearing a dark halter top and a long skirt with wide horizontal stripes of grey, powder blue, and purple. They have a belt loosely wrapped around their waist and powder blue short laceup bboots on their feet. Their long curly hair is tied up in a large bun. They are walking, with one arm around Grollis's shoulders. Grollis is a shorter Afro-Southeast Asian person wearing a black beanie and a neon yellow cloth mask that matches hyr neon yellow socks and black flip flops. Ze is wearing a dark grey jean jacket with rolled up sleeves and a beetle pin, a slightly cropped dark green top, and black wristbands. Hyr pants are a Thai fisherman cut and have a pastel beetle pattern on them. Hyr eyes' scleras are slightly blue-tinted.|Art by [https://twitter.com/saltbuzzard @buzzard]
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File:Yusef fenestrate buzzardtable.png|alt=A digital drawing of Yusef, a skinny black person with a window for a face, long curly hair, and arm tattoos of sunflowers, an eclipse, and a blaseball. Both the window and the hair contain a greyscale universe. Xey are wearing a bright yellow tank top and a purple undershirt or binder.|Art by [https://twitter.com/saltbuzzard @saltbuzzard]
 
File:Yusef Fenestrate dessxericas.jpg|alt=A digital drawing of a bust of Yusef Fenestrate, a black person with long curly hair reaching past their shoulderblades. They have windows on their shoulders, chest, and the upper part of their face above their mouth, which show a pink and purple universe beyond. They are wearing a pink Lift blaseball cap and jersey with a deep purple long-sleeve undershirt, and are flexing happily in frong of a geometric vaporwave-style background.|Art by [https://twitter.com/dessxericas/status/1385786751864672260?s=20 @dessxericas]
 
File:Yusef Fenestrate dessxericas.jpg|alt=A digital drawing of a bust of Yusef Fenestrate, a black person with long curly hair reaching past their shoulderblades. They have windows on their shoulders, chest, and the upper part of their face above their mouth, which show a pink and purple universe beyond. They are wearing a pink Lift blaseball cap and jersey with a deep purple long-sleeve undershirt, and are flexing happily in frong of a geometric vaporwave-style background.|Art by [https://twitter.com/dessxericas/status/1385786751864672260?s=20 @dessxericas]
 
File:Yusef Fenestrate case.jpg|alt=A small digital drawing of Fenestrate, a Middle Eastern person with long curly hair, a window for a face, and a bright yellow tank top. They are holding their hands up in excitement and there is an exclamation mark next to them. The entire drawing has pink lines and yellow shading.|Art by case
 
File:Yusef Fenestrate case.jpg|alt=A small digital drawing of Fenestrate, a Middle Eastern person with long curly hair, a window for a face, and a bright yellow tank top. They are holding their hands up in excitement and there is an exclamation mark next to them. The entire drawing has pink lines and yellow shading.|Art by case
File:Karaoke with the Lift Fancymancer.png|alt=A digital ink drawing of various members of the Lift around a table, eating, laughing, and singing to Garages Karaoke in a small room filled with Garages album posters and a TV. From left to right: Gerund Pantheocide is eating nachos, Yusef Fenestrate is drinking a glass of juice through a straw, Ayanna Dumpington and Wyatt Quitter are the only people in the room standing up and are singing passionately, and Stijn Strongbody is holding a songlist and laughing.|Karaoke Night with the Tokyo Lift during the [[Extended Siesta#Grand Siesta|Grand Siesta]]. From left to right: [[Gerund Pantheocide]], Yusef Fenestrate, [[Ayanna Dumpington]], [[Wyatt Quitter]], and [[Stijn Strongbody]]. Art by [https://twitter.com/Fancymancer/status/1331284947827634177 @Fancymancer]
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File:Yusef and Grollis.png|alt=Yusef is a tall black Egyptian person with a window for a face. They are wearing a dark halter top and a long skirt with wide horizontal stripes of grey, powder blue, and purple. They have a belt loosely wrapped around their waist and powder blue short laceup bboots on their feet. Their long curly hair is tied up in a large bun. They are walking, with one arm around Grollis's shoulders. Grollis is a shorter Afro-Southeast Asian person wearing a black beanie and a neon yellow cloth mask that matches hyr neon yellow socks and black flip flops. Ze is wearing a dark grey jean jacket with rolled up sleeves and a beetle pin, a slightly cropped dark green top, and black wristbands. Hyr pants are a Thai fisherman cut and have a pastel beetle pattern on them. Hyr eyes' scleras are slightly blue-tinted.|Fenestrate and [[Grollis Zephyr]] by [https://twitter.com/saltbuzzard @saltbuzzard]
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File:Lift sharkbitesz.jpg|alt=Four digital sketches. Fenestrate, drawn in pink, has a window for a face and chest, long curly hair, and a big smile. Greenlemon, drawn in green, has a lemon for a head, is shirtless and buff, and is flexing for the camera with a small smile. Honey, drawn in yellow, has short half dark and half light short hair, hand wrappings, and a tank top, and is looking at the viewer with a bored expression as kit leans kitsch head against kitsch hand. The drawing of galvanic, drawn in black, white, and pink, iis zoomed in on the upper part of the face, where the scarring radiating from its eyes is readily apparent.|Fenestrate, [[Kline Greenlemon]], [[Kit Honey]], and [[Coolname Galvanic]]. By [https://twitter.com/sharkbitesz @sharkbitesz]
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File:Yusef Fenestrate KayleeRowena.jpg|alt=A digital drawing in black, white, and pink, of Fenestrate on a blank background. Fenestrate is wearing a Lift uniform, has a window for a face, chin-length curly hair, and several windows and slats of wood floating around zir.|Art by [https://twitter.com/kayleerowena/status/1412879864550526976 @KayleeRowena]
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File:Karaoke with the Lift Fancymancer.png|alt=A digital ink drawing of various members of the Lift around a table, eating, laughing, and singing to Garages Karaoke in a small room filled with Garages album posters and a TV. From left to right: Gerund Pantheocide is eating nachos, Yusef Fenestrate is drinking a glass of juice through a straw, Ayanna Dumpington and Wyatt Quitter are the only people in the room standing up and are singing passionately, and Stijn Strongbody is holding a songlist and laughing.|Karaoke Night with the Tokyo Lift during the [[Extended Siesta#Grand Siesta|Grand Siesta]]. From left to right: [[Gerund Pantheocide|Pantheocide]], Fenestrate, [[Ayanna Dumpington|Dumpington]], [[Wyatt Quitter|Quitter]], and [[Stijn Strongbody|Strongbody]]. By [https://twitter.com/Fancymancer/status/1331284947827634177 @Fancymancer]
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File:Sefnet gerpan stairs.png|alt=A digital ink drawing of Yusef Fenestrate and Gerund Pantheocide sitting on stone stairs. Yusef is tall, thin, and black, with long hair tied back in a loose bun, a window for a face, a hoodie with a post-punk album cover on it, and skinny jeans covered with paintings of eyes, noses, and mouths. Gerund is short, buff, and mixed Southeast Asian and Eastern European, with thick black hair held back by a bandanna, a ripped sleeveless shirt with the Garages album Deicide on the front, short shorts, fingerless gloves, and a knee brace. She holds her knees as she looks toward Yusef and says, "How bout we talk about you for a change, you're floundering." Yusef responds, "Look, that's not important right now. I'm more worried about how you're holding up." Gerund interrupts with, "Take a step back and define not important, sef. Why is it never important when it happens to you?"|A conversation between Fenestrate and [[Gerund Pantheocide]], by '''[https://twitter.com/saltbuzzard/status/1423042720113758213 @saltbuzzard]'''
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File:​omg is that dress hlass idrliss.jpg|alt=A marker drawing of Yusef Fenestrate, an Egyptian person with brown skin and black waist-length curly hair. Star is wearing a dress with a bodice made of criss-crossing straps in shades of purple and burgundy, and a long purple slitted skirt with a coral-colored piece in front. Ze has a window where zir face should be. The frame of the window is coral colored, and there are dark purple curtains on either side. Ey's standing with eir hands behind eir back, looking slightly to one side.|Fenestrate dressed for the Mlet Gala, by [https://twitter.com/waveridden/status/1444050194530807810 @waveridden]
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File:Brokyo in Pink.png|alt=a flatly colored digital drawing of five players, on an old paper textured pink background. from left to right:  val hitherto, a short trans chinese man with a slight mustache, acne scars on his cheek and chest, and scars on his knuckles from picking his fingers. he wears a red trench coat over a v-neck shirt, a choker with a heart pattern, and goggles on his forehead which holds up spiky hair, dyed pink on the ends. there are scars around one eye which is cloudy. he looks to the side with a slight grimace as he raises one hand to gesture as he talks.  gerund pantheocide, a short muscular butch transfem vietnamese person with a scar on one cheek, slings one arm over val’s shoulder as she grins and gestures at grollis, who is towards the right. they wear a bandanna covering their eyebrows, a t-shirt and one fingerless glove, and a black denim vest covered in patches and pins. she has a nazar hanging on one hip.  coolname galvanic, a tall thin albino japanese person with long hair and heavy scarring beneath both eyes, stands in the center and back of the image, and looks towards yusef fenestrate. it wears a large sunhat with a sunflower and round sunglasses, and its face rests in a neutral, slightly frowning, expression.  yusef fenestrate, a tall black egyptian wearing an oval-shaped stained glass window mask over the entirety of xer face. ve has immaterial hair that floats behind vim in varying shades of dark brown, and wears a hoodie over a turtleneck, as well as jeans which have had small landscapes painted along the legs. sie looks at coolname as ae rests one hand in gerund’s hair and the other loops around grollis zephyr to hold hyr hand.  grollis zephyr, a black japanese person with short hair, a face mask, and an button-up t-shirt over a cropped binder and sweatpants. ze has large earrings, a nazar hanging from hyr neck, and the scleras of hyr eyes are slightly bluish while hyr irises are slightly oblong and vertical. hyr body faces slightly away from the group, and ze looks at gerund out of the corner of hyr eye as ze holds yusef’s hand. |[[Val Hitherto]], [[Gerund Pantheocide]], [[Coolname Galvanic]], Fenestrate, and [[Grollis Zephyr]] in the early Expansion Era. Art by '''[https://twitter.com/saltbuzzard/status/1493291523617796102 @saltbuzzard]'''
 
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Revision as of 03:28, 15 March 2022

Yusef Fenestrate is a lineup player for the Tokyo Lift, and has been with the team since the Season 10 elections.

Official League Records

Fenestrate joined the ILB as a lineup player for the Tokyo Lift during the Season 10 elections after the Ascension of the Baltimore Crabs.

During the Coffee Cup, Fenestrate played for Heavy FC as a lineup player.

On Season 20, Day 59, Fenestrate was swept  Elsewhere... and gained the Negative modification as a result of Nandy Slumps's Undertaker modification.

During the Season 21 elections, Fenestrate gained the 2x modification as a result of the Lift's Magnify will.

COMMUNITY REPORTS
The remainder of this article contains lore created collaboratively by the Blaseball community.

Box of Yusef Fenestrate Files

Dust billows as the file box lands on the table. While many archives in the Interdimensional Rumor Mill are unified in some way, this... definitely isn’t one of them. The accompanying Rumor Registry explains all of the contents... wherever it is... but for now you grab the folder labelled IF-28.114 and start reading...

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

Early Life

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

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

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

Cet 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 cet clear skill in the splort and excellent plate discipline, ce is often so focused on achieving hits with that particular resonance that ce ends up making poor contact with the ball. Cet batting career has been a long series of home runs, groundouts and flyouts, and ce is rarely actually seen on base where ce would be able to demonstrate cet baserunning prowess. Even so, ce 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 cet return, a reporter stopped cet on the street and ce 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 cet usual laid-back countenance and deliberate speech patterns, cet speech became notably slower and more prone to trailing off in the middle of a sentence, and ce has conducted few talks at the Lift’s community center since cet 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 cetself thrust into the position almost by surprise as cet teammates went to cet for cet 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 cet 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 cet worst-performing seasons up until ce 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 cet grief aside and quietly announced that ce 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 cet to another team. Fenestrate declined to comment on what drove cet pick up the base in the first place, and what made cet change cet 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. Ce once admitted to feeling that he still just saw cet as the kid he mentored rather than the person that kid has become.

Ce continues to co-inhabit cet old apartment with Galvanic, and the two have a close partnership. Additionally, ce 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 ce has also been recorded referring to the twice-late Alejandro Leaf as cet 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: ce actually does henna, as tattooing is haram.
  • Fenestrate is a polyglot. Ce is fluent in Egyptian Arabic, Classical Arabic, English, Japanese, ESL, and JSL, and ce has learned the basics of Spanish, Mandarin, and Hindi both from cet teammates and from traveling prior to joining the Lift.
  • Fenestrate takes a lot of comfort in cooking, and occasionally calls home for recipes from cet aunts.
  • In an interview, Fenestrate stated that if ce was to compete in any non-blaseball splort, ce would like to swim professionally.
  • Fenestrate is a skilled glassblower. Ce makes cet own glass masks and windows, wearing different windows for different outfits and occasions. In particular, ce wears masks that incorporate the Evil Eye into the design during solar eclipses as a ward. Ce also has made Evil Eye necklaces and bracelets for all cet teammates.
  • Fenestrate is a hobbyist composer and multi-instrumentalist. Cet music is often esoteric, relying as much on the sonic texture inherent to objects as on more traditional musical instruments.


List of Notable Hobbies, Skills, and Interests

Fenestrate is known by many as someone with many interests and talents. Some of their peers have mentioned that every time you look away, it always seems as though they are up to something new and refreshing. There may be some truth to that:

  • Theoretical physicist (learned from Stijn Strongbody)
  • Notary
  • Musician:
    • Hyperbass flute
    • Hydraulophone
    • Piccolo trombone
    • Glass harmonica
    • Hornucopian dronepipe
  • Baker (learned from Rylan O'Lantern, Mags Banananana, and Jessica Telephone)
  • Free diver
  • Mint condition BLEGO collector
  • Wilderness first aid certified
  • They also play Internet League Blaseball on the side

Fan Works

Fanfiction

For more fanfiction, go to the Yusef Fenestrate tag on AO3.

Fanart


  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.