Yusef Fenestrate

Yusef Fenestrate
Art by @tredlocity
Basic Information
Team	Baltimore Crabs
Overall Rating	(3)
Batting	(3)
Pitching	(2.5)
Defense	(3.5)
Running	(2)
Vibes	(4)
Dates Active	Oct 18, 2020–present
External Links	Blaseball-Reference Player Changes Player Page
Biographical Details
Pronouns	any

Yusef Fenestrate is a player for the Baltimore Crabs and has been with the team since Fall Ball. Fenestrate has played for the Tokyo Lift.

Official League Records

Fenestrate joined the ILB as a lineup player for the Tokyo Lift during the Season β10 elections after the Ascension of the Baltimore Crabs.

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

On Season β20, Day 59, Fenestrate was swept   and gained the Negative modification as a result of Nandy Slumps's Undertaker modification.

During the Season β21 elections, Fenestrate gained the 2x modification as a result of the Lift's Magnify will.

During the December 23, 2022 Fall Ball, Fenestrate fell to the Baltimore Crabs.

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

Box of Yusef Fenestrate Files

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

Early Life

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

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

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

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

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

• Music historian
• Interim mayor
• Base jumper
• DIY punk fashion expert
• Surfer
• Landscape designer
• Archaeologist
• They also play Internet League Blaseball on the side

Fan Works

Fanfiction

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

• taking inches for miles by waveridden - On Yusef, elsewhere, and divine harmony.

Fanart

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  Art by @tredlocity

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  Art by @tredlocity

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  Art by @saltbuzzard

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  Art by @dessxericas

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  Art by case

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  Fenestrate and Grollis Zephyr by @saltbuzzard

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  Fenestrate, Kline Greenlemon, Kit Honey, and Coolname Galvanic. By @sharkbitesz

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  Art by @KayleeRowena

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  Karaoke Night with the Tokyo Lift during the Grand Siesta. From left to right: Pantheocide, Fenestrate, Dumpington, Quitter, and Strongbody. By @Fancymancer

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  A conversation between Fenestrate and Gerund Pantheocide, by @saltbuzzard

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  Fenestrate dressed for the Mlet Gala, by @waveridden

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  Val Hitherto, Gerund Pantheocide, Coolname Galvanic, Fenestrate, and Grollis Zephyr in the early Expansion Era. Art by @saltbuzzard

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