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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]''' | 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]''' | ||
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] | 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] | ||
| + | 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 04:43, 15 February 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 
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 REPORTSThe 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, ot refers to otself as watashi and others refer to ot with masculine and feminine terms interchangeably, and in Arabic ot is likewise referred to with هي/هو interchangeably. Ot is autistic and has ADHD.
Early Life
Born in Luxor, Egypt, Fenestrate spent much of ot youth wandering the city and lingering near its historical and archaeological sites. As ot grew up, ot began hearing what ot 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, ot was vague, saying “I dunno, I just kind of hear it with my face, you know? The normal way you hear stuff like that.” Ot has since described this phenomenon as “the universe’s symphony of resonant mundanities,” or as ot more affectionately deems it, “some real rad tunes.”
Ot started school for physics, thinking ot might be better able to share the music with others if ot studied the forces that make up the immaterial plane. Fenestrate began ot studies in Morocco and then returned to Egypt to transfer to a university in Cairo, but soon after the move ot grew completely disillusioned with academia. Ot decided ot would benefit more from self-education that was built for ot way of learning instead of in spite of it, and dropped out to pursue ot own studies.
Freed from academia but inspired by ot time in Morocco, Fenestrate sought any and all opportunities to travel and see more of the world. Meanwhile, ot efforts to find a mentor in physics were fruitful as ot 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 ot became more fascinated with the history of objects and how their songs change with the events that occur in their presence, and ot dropped contact with Strongbody as ot research took ot from physics to history. Through the following years Fenestrate went through an intense punk phase, learned to play the cello, ukulele, and riq, and moved to Tokyo. There, ot started rooming with future teammate Coolname Galvanic, discovered ot 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 ot, asking whether ot would like to join. Hoping to hear Blaseball’s own unique symphonic soundscape in person, Fenestrate accepted.
Ot 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 ot clear skill in the splort and excellent plate discipline, ot is often so focused on achieving hits with that particular resonance that ot ends up making poor contact with the ball. Ot batting career has been a long series of home runs, groundouts and flyouts, and ot is rarely actually seen on base where ot would be able to demonstrate ot baserunning prowess. Even so, ot 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 ot return, a reporter stopped ot on the street and ot 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 ot usual laid-back countenance and deliberate speech patterns, ot speech became notably slower and more prone to trailing off in the middle of a sentence, and ot has conducted few talks at the Lift’s community center since ot 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 otself thrust into the position almost by surprise as ot teammates went to ot for ot 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 ot 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 ot worst-performing seasons up until ot 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 ot grief aside and quietly announced that ot 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 ot to another team. Fenestrate declined to comment on what drove ot pick up the base in the first place, and what made ot change ot 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. Ot once admitted to feeling that he still just saw ot as the kid he mentored rather than the person that kid has become.
Ot continues to co-inhabit ot old apartment with Galvanic, and the two have a close partnership. Additionally, ot 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 ot has also been recorded referring to the twice-late Alejandro Leaf as ot 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: ot actually does henna, as tattooing is haram.
- Fenestrate is a polyglot. Ot is fluent in Egyptian Arabic, Classical Arabic, English, Japanese, ESL, and JSL, and ot has learned the basics of Spanish, Mandarin, and Hindi both from ot teammates and from traveling prior to joining the Lift.
- Fenestrate takes a lot of comfort in cooking, and occasionally calls home for recipes from ot aunts.
- In an interview, Fenestrate stated that if ot was to compete in any non-blaseball splort, ot would like to swim professionally.
- Fenestrate is a skilled glassblower. Ot makes ot own glass masks and windows, wearing different windows for different outfits and occasions. In particular, ot wears masks that incorporate the Evil Eye into the design during solar eclipses as a ward. Ot also has made Evil Eye necklaces and bracelets for all ot teammates.
- Fenestrate is a hobbyist composer and multi-instrumentalist. Ot 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:
- Birder
- Interim mayor
- Musician:
- Harpsichord
- Vocoder
- Drums
- Knitter (learned from Alejandro Leaf)
- Free diver
- Bubblegum bubble blower
- Cryptozoologist
- They also play Internet League Blaseball on the side
Fan Works
Art by @tredlocity
Art by @tredlocity
Art by @saltbuzzard
Art by @dessxericas
Art by case
Fenestrate and Grollis Zephyr by @saltbuzzard
Fenestrate, Kline Greenlemon, Kit Honey, and Coolname Galvanic. By @sharkbitesz
Art by @KayleeRowena
Karaoke Night with the Tokyo Lift during the Grand Siesta. From left to right: Pantheocide, Fenestrate, Dumpington, Quitter, and Strongbody. By @Fancymancer
A conversation between Fenestrate and Gerund Pantheocide, by @saltbuzzard
Fenestrate dressed for the Mlet Gala, by @waveridden
Val Hitherto, Gerund Pantheocide, Coolname Galvanic, Fenestrate, and Grollis Zephyr in the early Expansion Era. Art by @saltbuzzard
- ↑ 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.
| Players | Batters | |
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| Pitchers | ||
| Shadows | ||
| Buried | James Nolan · Summers Preston | |
| Former |
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| Stats | Season | 1 · 2 · Full List |
| Beta | 11 · 12 · 13 · 14· 15 · 16 · 17 · 18 · 19 · 20 · 21 · 22 · 23 · 24 | |
| Circuits | Gamma 1 · Gamma 2 · Gamma 3 · Gamma 4 | |
| Events | Coffee Cup · Fall Ball | |
| Ballpark | Tokyo Fitness Center | |
| Community Lore | ||
| Staff | Macaquey Caulkin · Kumuscle · 200% Beef Hotdog and Chips (the Third) | |
| History | Tokyo Lift's History · Legscraper · Beef Wings · Beef Wings Corp | |
| Fan Culture 📣 · Fan Works 💌 · Tlopps Cards 🃏 | ||
| Heart and Swole | ||
