Yusef Fenestrate/IF-28.114

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Early Life

Yusef Fenestrate was born in Egypt, and moved to Japan with hir family when ze was eleven. As ze grew older, ze started talking about music that could not be heard with one’s ears. When asked how ze heard the music, if not with hir ears, ze was vague, saying “I dunno, I just kind of hear it with my face, you know? The normal way you hear stuff like that.” Ze has since described this phenomenon as “the universe’s impossible symphony of resonant mundanities,” or as ze more affectionately deems it, “some real rad tunes.”

Hir curiosity about the universe’s music grew with age and ze decided to go to school for physics, thinking ze might be better able to explain and share the music to others if ze studied the forces that make up the immaterial plane. However, ze soon grew disillusioned about academia due to how the professors mishandled hir learning needs and decided ze would benefit more from self-education that was built for hir ADHD and autism instead of in spite of it.

As a young physicist outside of academia, ze sought mentors in the discipline and eventually came into contact with acclaimed mathematician and buff fitness buff Stijn Strongbody, and spent some years exchanging letters about their numerous theories. After some time, Fenestrate’s interests shifted and ze became more fascinated with the history of objects and how their songs change with the events that occur in their presence. Ze dropped contact with Strongbody as hir search for answers took hir from physics to history.

Through the following years ze went through an intense punk phase, acquired many new interests and skills, started rooming with confirmed namepire and rumored ex-umpire Coolname Galvanic, discovered ze was aromantic after allegedly attempting to date and breaking up with Galvanic on amicable terms, and came out as genderfluid. Before being recruited to the Tokyo Lift ze had been weighing the pros and cons of opening a small at-home tattoo parlor.

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 hir, asking whether ze would like to join. Hoping to hear Blaseball’s own unique symphonic soundscape in person, Fenestrate accepted.

Hir performance since joining the Lift has been somewhat underwhelming at times. Ze has told reporters that the sound of a home run is like no other, and despite hir clear skill in the splort and excellent plate discipline, ze is often so focused on achieving hits with that particular resonance that ze ends up making poor contact with the ball. Hir batting career has been a long series of home runs, groundouts and flyouts, and ze is rarely actually seen on base where ze would be able to demonstrate hir baserunning prowess. Even so, ze is one of the team's more capable batters.

Time Spent Elsewhere

During the Lift’s third and final game of their Season 14 playoffs against the Hades Tigers, Fenestrate was swept Elsewhere. Ze was there for the entirety of the two-year long siesta. Several months after hir return, a reporter stopped hir on the street and ze 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 [in] 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 hir usual laid-back countenance and deliberate speech patterns, hir speech has become notably slower and more prone to trailing off in the middle of a sentence, and ze has conducted few talks at the Lift’s community center since hir return.

Personal Life

As a generally good-natured and mellow-mannered individual, Fenestrate has few troubles getting along with most members of the Lift.

Notable relationships include hir continued co-habitation of hir old apartment with Coolname Galvanic, who insisted in joining the Lift as soon as it heard of Strongbody’s invitation. Additionally, ze has entered a queerplatonic relationship with Grollis Zephyr, often went to craft workshops with Concrete Mandible before their shadowing in the Season 12 Elections, and has bonded with Gerund Pantheocide over a mutual love of punk culture and the discography of the Seattle Garages. Ze has also been recorded referring to Alejandro Leaf as hir 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 ze had admitted to feeling that he still just saw hir as the kid he mentored rather than the person that kid has become.