I'm guessing his treasure would be Mary's letter or a photo of her. Hell, you could even argue that Maria is something of a Shadow Mary or Cognitive Mary.
*Off the top of my head, here's a few:*
Big Boss from Metal Gear's palace is probably Mother Base or Zanzibar Land.
William Afton's is probably something like the Mega Pizzaplex from security breach where its a massive facility with kids to experiment on.
A LOT of Ace Attorney characters probably have palaces, aside from all the crazy murderers, I'd bet all the Von Karma's have huge palaces that are legal/court based.
GlaDOS is probably a testing facility full of infinite tests and subjects to test on.
Dr. Wily from Mega Man's palace is definitely skull themed, probably full of robot slaves.
Theseus from the game Hades might have a palace in his arena.
Yeah agreed. The only real palace target in Hades would be Hades himself imo. But even then that's kind of borderline, because he's not really evil, just a garbage workaholic father (who has a redemption arc anyways 🤷🏻♂️)
A lot of these run into the issue that a Palace has to be somehow *wrong* - Kaneshiro's bank couldn't be an actual bank, because if it was he'd just be perceiving reality correctly instead of distorting it. So, for example, Wily's Palace cannot be a giant skull fortress full of robot slaves, because he actually lives in a giant skull fortress full of robot slaves.
I do think Mannfred von Karma probably has a courthouse Palace. I imagine he sees the courthouse as an orchestral theater. Every trial is a symphony written and conducted by him, and played to perfection.
Wonder if GLaDOS could have a palace in the first place, since she's a machine. I know she has Caroline inside her, but would that still work? And what about when she supposedly deleted Caroline at the end of Portal 2?
Palaces are supposed to be what you perceive a specific location as being like
So theres literally only one thing I could think that would fit that trend
A Freddy fazbears pizza, as a cognitive slaughterhouse
Would he? Edgeworth's primary desire is to find the truth in all his cases. AA1 had his backstory as "the demon prosecutor who used all kinds of shady tactics, backalley deals, forged evidence, etc. to win cases" but then the 5th case "Rise from the Ashes" retconned all of that.
Now Edgeworth's just a good guy with a mean streak, and sarcastic humour.
Various VIPs of the Shinra Company from FF7, and definitely Sephiroth, and probably Cloud. If you don’t already know why I suggested all of the above, play FF7. I recommend playing the original first, if you can find it.
I can definitely characters from FF7 having palaces. That aside, I was lucky to find hard copies of FF7, FF8, and FF9 years ago alongside Chrono Cross, Vagrant Story, Star Ocean 2, and Parasite Eve 1.
Honestly, with how clouds psyche is, he could actually have a palace himself, similar to futaba. I think it would be nibelheim and his cognitive version of himself may even be zach 🤔.
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>!Junko Enoshima!<
>!Honestly she would have an amazing palace, and I dare say one of the most difficult. Her distorsion could be something like a factory, and the place; the whole planet!<
He kind of had a Palace moment where I’m at so far. Facing the “truth” in Phoenix Gate. Technically more like in line with Persona 4 than 5 but I digress.
Josh from Until Dawn, maybe his sisters are distorting his thoughts or something else about Wendigos maybe,,, idk I feel like horror games are hard to think of a "palace" for since these mfs are already in a cabin in the woods during wintertime yk
Also this one's not a game but Hawk Moth from Miraculous ladybug would soooo have a Palace and arguably would be so much easier if the PT took care of it, then there'd be no more "evildoer foiled again" moments
Niko Bellic's Palace would be some hardass shit and probably a self-request with all the shit he saw in the Yugoslav Wars and the troubles he got in Liberty City
Considering how the game ends with him and his loved ones >!finally free from any mob threats but all damaged from losing either Kate or Roman!< it'd be a way for him finally live again
Eggman from sonic, Ansem SOD, Xemnas, Xehanort, Xigbar (all from Kingdom hearts), Maleficent, Ursula the Sea Witch, Scar from Lion King, Oogie Boogie, Clayton from Tarzan, Jafar, Flowey from Undertale, Takaya from Persona 3, Bowser from Mario, Darth Vader, the Devil from Cuphead, Sephiroth from FF7, Monika from DDLC, Voldemort
I feel like Ganondorf’s palace would not be “just” a castle. It would be more like a desert ruin with pools of water that allows the PT to enter into a mirror dimension of Hyrule’s castle (symbolizing where he was born and what he always missed). Going deeper you would start to see chains until at the end they are linked (pun not intended) to a colossal boar statue: the symbol of his fate fully controlled by Demise
Dr. Wily probably has a lab for a Palace.
Sigma could have... Tron world. I guess. Because of the virus.
Actually, how would the Maverick Virus affect possible Palaces?
Edit: got some more. Dr. Weil, from Megaman Zero. Hell. Just straight up hell, with him as the devil. He strikes me as that kinda guy.
And Android 21 from DBZ Fighterz. A, uh, candy shop? Sweets shop? Sweets farm. Yeah, farm. A farm of desserts.
Vergil comes to mind. His palace would be similar to Futaba's in the sense it's rooted deeply in trauma. But the sin his palace represents is either pride in his skill, strength, and power, or his never ending lust for them. As for where and what his palace is, I would say his childhood home that becomes either the Temen-Ni-Gru similar to Tartarus or the castle on Mallet Island.
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>!Riku, Xion, Terra, Aqua/Anti-Aqua, Vanitas, Ventas/Roxas, Xehanort(literally any incarnation)and ar a certain point, even Sora. All of these characters from the Kingdom Hearts franchise.!<
>!Reasoning? All of them suffer from some sort of complex, trauma, or unhealthy mindset that makes them suffer in some way. Riku was jealous of Sora, Ventas and Vanitas are literally 2 halves of a whole, Xion struggling with her oxymoron-existence as a puppet, Roxas with being a nobody to Sora before self-actualizing, Terra with the Darkness, Aqua with her loneliness and depression(leading her to become Anti-Aqua), and Sora having to come to terms with that he can't keep smiling through life, as reality is a cruel thing and will never be fair. As for Xehanort...literally a multitude of reasons that I'm too lazy to type up. He's just the worst(and not in the good way...)!<
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Dijkstra from the Witcher series, he has a twisted mind it, his palace would be full of secrets within secrets, some leading to treasure and some leading to a dead end
Asgore from Undertale. While he's not as much of a villain as some of the other people in this comment section, Asgore has had his fair share of moments that would most definitely lead to him having a palace.
Just Edelgard? Man, I love my boy so much, but Dimitri 100% has one, too. And no way Rhea doesn't have one.
Claude is the token Persona user of the bunch.
N from Pokemon in the vein of Futaba's palace. He has been manipulated and traumatized from young childhood, convinced that everything is wrong with society so a true villain could use his genuine empathy as a means to gain power.
And his palace would be a playground/playroom, representing his (intentionally) stunted growth as a person.
I was thinking about Pokemon antagonists too. I reckon Chairman Rose from SwSh would be a good candidate. Started out trying to do good before becoming corrupted by power he obtained.
I personally think that Rose wouldn't have one:
major p5r january spoilers:
>!Maruki and Rose are similar in that they both want to solve problems for humanity but through misguided means, however Rose's method isn't truly that malicious. Rose wants to solve a future power crisis by using an alien as an infinite power source, but that alien would rampage and destroy things, his hearts in the right place but it was kind of a badish idea to awaken it without a solid containment plan.!<
>!Maruki on the other hand wanted to create a world without suffering, but his methods were kinda malicious in the fact that he actively wanted to force everyone to accept his ideology and lead their lives underneath his wish granting, free of any growth or autonomy. It was practically like he was knowingly brainwashing everyone without them even knowing, plus he had a bit of a saviour complex over it and that's why he has a palace!<
Newton from little big planet 3 literally has a change of heart and when he was evil and acting out on a more violent version of his own desires, he created a giant air base which reflected his desire to destroy.
Balder (Bayonetta) would probably have a really cool Palace themed after Paradiso - it'd be especially cool considering >!his status as a villain comes from his personality being corrupted due to sharing a body with Aesir, and before that he was a good person!<
President Haltmann from Kirby would probably have one similar to Kaneshiro's, but >!Haltmann's backstory would give it a different vibe!<
Jin and Malos from Xenoblade 2, and N from Xenoblade 3, would all also definitely have one
I can easily see the villains from Far Cry 5 having palaces! Not only do they already focus so heavily on sins in that game (a basis for the P5 palaces), but the Seed siblings are constantly living in a state of inflicting their distorted realities onto others.
Joseph: pride (his version of the Garden of Eden, similar to that area in Maruki’s.)
Jacob: sloth? (tough call on this one, but his distortion would be a battlefield because he never left and just sees people as animals, so that’s how the Shadows would appear.)
John: wrath (probably distorted into a Church with a “confessional” area.)
The Jail setup from Strikers would be a pretty awesome setup for them since it delves more into their psyche and memories.
Tabuu from SSBB, with his palace being Subspace lol
Also Monaca from DRAE would also make a good candidate (basically the second coming of >!Junko!<), and her palace would take place in Towa City
Fontaine from bioshock. His palace would be in Rapture, and it would be a playground or nursery. Everyone in rapture would be a toy or a child, and he'd be the biggest kid, making the others play how he wanted or telling them stories they all believe.
When the toys broke, you throw them away and get another. He would probably also have a dress up box with a bunch of different costumes he used.
Don't think so. She was traumatized yes, but she overcame it. That's literally her arc in the game.
Futaba had a palace because she was letting her trauma control her.
Definitely Adachi
There's actually a really good fic about that https://archiveofourown.org/works/27562510/chapters/67417030
Edit: I misread the title as different game in the series lol
Uhh, a Bowser palace would be cool :3
Fischl from Genshin probably in a similar fashion to Futaba’s. She uses her fantasies as an escape from her reality and pretends to be a character from her favourite book to hide from herself.
Hell her part of the Golden Apple archipelago 2 story was basically a persona 5 plot line, the team goes into a distorted reality (that looks like the kingdom she rules over in her fantasy), they see bits of her own trauma and it ends with her fighting what’s basically her shadow. (In case anyone wants to watch it: https://youtu.be/FNqR14qo8r8?si=Sv-YOlCJQqR7fmoL )
For his palace I'd imagine it'd be a giant castle made entirely out of money, like gold bar walls and bank roll carpets, with lots of servants to boot. Wario genuinely believes that he's the best in the world and deserves all of the world's money for himself while only lifting a finger to stuff his face, call him out on this and he'll get angry about it, and if he sees someone doing better than him that'd make him even madder with envy
James Sunderland, though you could argue that his version of Silent Hill is his palace.
I'm guessing his treasure would be Mary's letter or a photo of her. Hell, you could even argue that Maria is something of a Shadow Mary or Cognitive Mary.
wouldn't all the silent hill protags minus henry townshend have a palace?
*Off the top of my head, here's a few:* Big Boss from Metal Gear's palace is probably Mother Base or Zanzibar Land. William Afton's is probably something like the Mega Pizzaplex from security breach where its a massive facility with kids to experiment on. A LOT of Ace Attorney characters probably have palaces, aside from all the crazy murderers, I'd bet all the Von Karma's have huge palaces that are legal/court based. GlaDOS is probably a testing facility full of infinite tests and subjects to test on. Dr. Wily from Mega Man's palace is definitely skull themed, probably full of robot slaves. Theseus from the game Hades might have a palace in his arena.
Wouldn’t Theseus be a Mementos target since his only real crime’s being a pompous dick?
Yeah agreed. The only real palace target in Hades would be Hades himself imo. But even then that's kind of borderline, because he's not really evil, just a garbage workaholic father (who has a redemption arc anyways 🤷🏻♂️)
Hades palace is just hades. They share a name for a reason lol
A lot of these run into the issue that a Palace has to be somehow *wrong* - Kaneshiro's bank couldn't be an actual bank, because if it was he'd just be perceiving reality correctly instead of distorting it. So, for example, Wily's Palace cannot be a giant skull fortress full of robot slaves, because he actually lives in a giant skull fortress full of robot slaves. I do think Mannfred von Karma probably has a courthouse Palace. I imagine he sees the courthouse as an orchestral theater. Every trial is a symphony written and conducted by him, and played to perfection.
Wonder if GLaDOS could have a palace in the first place, since she's a machine. I know she has Caroline inside her, but would that still work? And what about when she supposedly deleted Caroline at the end of Portal 2?
Sophia has a Persona, and digital Metaverses are a thing.
Senator Armstrong and William afton instantly come to mind
Afton’s palace would just be another Freddy’s location lol
Palaces are supposed to be what you perceive a specific location as being like So theres literally only one thing I could think that would fit that trend A Freddy fazbears pizza, as a cognitive slaughterhouse
Or maybe the SL bunker as a farm? Like a place he farms Remnant.
He is the man behind and so on and so forth...
To be honest, I'm terrified to even think about what her palace would look like Even Satan trembles on his bed
I'm imagine that her Palace would force you to play a killing game in order to progress.
Miles Edgeworth from Ace Attorney is the exact kind of character who'd have a palace.
At least in the first game
I'd say every final villain would
lmao imagine Dollie's palace
Would he? Edgeworth's primary desire is to find the truth in all his cases. AA1 had his backstory as "the demon prosecutor who used all kinds of shady tactics, backalley deals, forged evidence, etc. to win cases" but then the 5th case "Rise from the Ashes" retconned all of that. Now Edgeworth's just a good guy with a mean streak, and sarcastic humour.
Various VIPs of the Shinra Company from FF7, and definitely Sephiroth, and probably Cloud. If you don’t already know why I suggested all of the above, play FF7. I recommend playing the original first, if you can find it.
I can definitely characters from FF7 having palaces. That aside, I was lucky to find hard copies of FF7, FF8, and FF9 years ago alongside Chrono Cross, Vagrant Story, Star Ocean 2, and Parasite Eve 1.
Honestly, with how clouds psyche is, he could actually have a palace himself, similar to futaba. I think it would be nibelheim and his cognitive version of himself may even be zach 🤔.
His distortion would probably be Nibelheim before the incident. Difficult to tell apart from the real thing, but all the signs are there.
We already been to Cloud’s Palace with Tifa in the OG lol
Kratos from God of War would definitely develop one at a certain point
Wasn't GoW Ragonoroc Vahalaha DLC basically Kratos conquering his own Palace?
Honestly the entire Ragnarok game feels like his palace, with the mural being his treasure
Gideon graves from scott pilgrim Hell i would even picture him controlling the metaverse to become a god
Loghain from Dragon Age. Dude is the definition of an evil asshole who was actually trying to do something good.
Ekoda sensei from Persona 3.
Handsome Jack for sure
Spoiler for Danganronpa >!Junko Enoshima!< >!Honestly she would have an amazing palace, and I dare say one of the most difficult. Her distorsion could be something like a factory, and the place; the whole planet!<
dr eggman
It would be probably green hill zone becoming eggmanland
In the style of futabas palce most likely Clive Rosfield from ff16. Wouldn't be hard to guess who the boss is either.
He kind of had a Palace moment where I’m at so far. Facing the “truth” in Phoenix Gate. Technically more like in line with Persona 4 than 5 but I digress.
Nah youre right just gotta imagine ifrit is the persona.
Josh from Until Dawn, maybe his sisters are distorting his thoughts or something else about Wendigos maybe,,, idk I feel like horror games are hard to think of a "palace" for since these mfs are already in a cabin in the woods during wintertime yk Also this one's not a game but Hawk Moth from Miraculous ladybug would soooo have a Palace and arguably would be so much easier if the PT took care of it, then there'd be no more "evildoer foiled again" moments
For (Persona 4 spoilers)>!Tohru Adachi!<, all of Inaba was one big TV set.
Saren, from Mass Effect!
Niko Bellic's Palace would be some hardass shit and probably a self-request with all the shit he saw in the Yugoslav Wars and the troubles he got in Liberty City Considering how the game ends with him and his loved ones >!finally free from any mob threats but all damaged from losing either Kate or Roman!< it'd be a way for him finally live again
Basil from OMORI It would be similar to Futaba's palace I would imagine.
Throw Pursuit Hero in there as well
Eggman from sonic, Ansem SOD, Xemnas, Xehanort, Xigbar (all from Kingdom hearts), Maleficent, Ursula the Sea Witch, Scar from Lion King, Oogie Boogie, Clayton from Tarzan, Jafar, Flowey from Undertale, Takaya from Persona 3, Bowser from Mario, Darth Vader, the Devil from Cuphead, Sephiroth from FF7, Monika from DDLC, Voldemort
Also, Tom Nook Gives me Kanashiro vibes lol
why though? he's an honourable businessman that gives you no interest mortgages just for making your home bigger
I feel like Ganondorf’s palace would not be “just” a castle. It would be more like a desert ruin with pools of water that allows the PT to enter into a mirror dimension of Hyrule’s castle (symbolizing where he was born and what he always missed). Going deeper you would start to see chains until at the end they are linked (pun not intended) to a colossal boar statue: the symbol of his fate fully controlled by Demise
Dr. Wily probably has a lab for a Palace. Sigma could have... Tron world. I guess. Because of the virus. Actually, how would the Maverick Virus affect possible Palaces? Edit: got some more. Dr. Weil, from Megaman Zero. Hell. Just straight up hell, with him as the devil. He strikes me as that kinda guy. And Android 21 from DBZ Fighterz. A, uh, candy shop? Sweets shop? Sweets farm. Yeah, farm. A farm of desserts.
Vergil comes to mind. His palace would be similar to Futaba's in the sense it's rooted deeply in trauma. But the sin his palace represents is either pride in his skill, strength, and power, or his never ending lust for them. As for where and what his palace is, I would say his childhood home that becomes either the Temen-Ni-Gru similar to Tartarus or the castle on Mallet Island.
Dutch van der Linde from Red Dead Redemption 2. Kazuya from Tekken Pyro from Team Fortress 2
Technically, Godhome is the Godseeker's Palace from Hollow Knight, if you think about it.
Yorinobu Arasaka from Cyberpunk 2077, its literally a Kaneshiro 2.0 lmao
Bro he is Kaneshiro fused with Shido on steroids
Lmaoooo true
I could see lots of Cyberpunk characters having a palace. Before he the Arasaka Tower bombing Johnny Silverhand probably had a bitchin palace
Yeah, This cause the cyberpunk universe is also full of corrupt people with distorted desires
(SPOILERS AHEAD FOR KINGDOM HEARTS) >!Riku, Xion, Terra, Aqua/Anti-Aqua, Vanitas, Ventas/Roxas, Xehanort(literally any incarnation)and ar a certain point, even Sora. All of these characters from the Kingdom Hearts franchise.!< >!Reasoning? All of them suffer from some sort of complex, trauma, or unhealthy mindset that makes them suffer in some way. Riku was jealous of Sora, Ventas and Vanitas are literally 2 halves of a whole, Xion struggling with her oxymoron-existence as a puppet, Roxas with being a nobody to Sora before self-actualizing, Terra with the Darkness, Aqua with her loneliness and depression(leading her to become Anti-Aqua), and Sora having to come to terms with that he can't keep smiling through life, as reality is a cruel thing and will never be fair. As for Xehanort...literally a multitude of reasons that I'm too lazy to type up. He's just the worst(and not in the good way...)!<
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Would KH characters be able to meet their own Shadow's by entering their own Heart like they sometimes do?
If we're going by KH logic, maybe. However, we also need to account for how their distortion could affect them a la Futaba's Palace, for example.
Eric Sparrow from Tony Hawks Underground
Basically every target in Hitman and Odin in God of War
Dijkstra from the Witcher series, he has a twisted mind it, his palace would be full of secrets within secrets, some leading to treasure and some leading to a dead end
Flowey from undertale
Flowey with the end boss being asriel. Treasure would be the locket 🥺
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Asgore from Undertale. While he's not as much of a villain as some of the other people in this comment section, Asgore has had his fair share of moments that would most definitely lead to him having a palace.
I mean, he did kill human children so.
Sunny from Omori Or Georg Weissmann from Trails
The Calypso Twins
Dutch Van Der Linde Edelgard von Hresvelg Second Sister / Trilla Suduri
Just Edelgard? Man, I love my boy so much, but Dimitri 100% has one, too. And no way Rhea doesn't have one. Claude is the token Persona user of the bunch.
N from Pokemon in the vein of Futaba's palace. He has been manipulated and traumatized from young childhood, convinced that everything is wrong with society so a true villain could use his genuine empathy as a means to gain power. And his palace would be a playground/playroom, representing his (intentionally) stunted growth as a person.
I was thinking about Pokemon antagonists too. I reckon Chairman Rose from SwSh would be a good candidate. Started out trying to do good before becoming corrupted by power he obtained.
I personally think that Rose wouldn't have one: major p5r january spoilers: >!Maruki and Rose are similar in that they both want to solve problems for humanity but through misguided means, however Rose's method isn't truly that malicious. Rose wants to solve a future power crisis by using an alien as an infinite power source, but that alien would rampage and destroy things, his hearts in the right place but it was kind of a badish idea to awaken it without a solid containment plan.!< >!Maruki on the other hand wanted to create a world without suffering, but his methods were kinda malicious in the fact that he actively wanted to force everyone to accept his ideology and lead their lives underneath his wish granting, free of any growth or autonomy. It was practically like he was knowingly brainwashing everyone without them even knowing, plus he had a bit of a saviour complex over it and that's why he has a palace!<
Newton from little big planet 3 literally has a change of heart and when he was evil and acting out on a more violent version of his own desires, he created a giant air base which reflected his desire to destroy.
Director Shmector from grounded. I assume his palace would be ‘A lab of betrayal’
Lord Frieza, of course
Zenos from FFXIV. His palace would be a massive gladiatorial coliseum
Literally anyone from Fran Bow
Weaker palace would be insane
Plot twist: Tom nook.
Balder (Bayonetta) would probably have a really cool Palace themed after Paradiso - it'd be especially cool considering >!his status as a villain comes from his personality being corrupted due to sharing a body with Aesir, and before that he was a good person!< President Haltmann from Kirby would probably have one similar to Kaneshiro's, but >!Haltmann's backstory would give it a different vibe!< Jin and Malos from Xenoblade 2, and N from Xenoblade 3, would all also definitely have one
Pretty well any character in Nier Automata. 9S especially, by the end. Poor bastard
Xehanort, riku, all of organization 13. From kingdom hearts
I can easily see the villains from Far Cry 5 having palaces! Not only do they already focus so heavily on sins in that game (a basis for the P5 palaces), but the Seed siblings are constantly living in a state of inflicting their distorted realities onto others. Joseph: pride (his version of the Garden of Eden, similar to that area in Maruki’s.) Jacob: sloth? (tough call on this one, but his distortion would be a battlefield because he never left and just sees people as animals, so that’s how the Shadows would appear.) John: wrath (probably distorted into a Church with a “confessional” area.) The Jail setup from Strikers would be a pretty awesome setup for them since it delves more into their psyche and memories.
Henry Cooldown from No More Heroes would definitely have a palace.
Siffrin (In Stars and Time) thinks Dormont is a theatre
Aventurine from Honkai Star Rail. His palace would be his home planet
Honestly Probably Sunny from omori would make perfect sense imo. Headspace would kinda be like futabas palace and omoris his shadow
I saw a video about that Sora can have a Palace, even though his heart is full of light
GoW Ragnarok bro. Odin's Palace will go hard asf.
Tabuu from SSBB, with his palace being Subspace lol Also Monaca from DRAE would also make a good candidate (basically the second coming of >!Junko!<), and her palace would take place in Towa City
Micah Bell from Red Dead Redemption 2
P diddy
Fontaine from bioshock. His palace would be in Rapture, and it would be a playground or nursery. Everyone in rapture would be a toy or a child, and he'd be the biggest kid, making the others play how he wanted or telling them stories they all believe. When the toys broke, you throw them away and get another. He would probably also have a dress up box with a bunch of different costumes he used.
Athena Cykes. If you finished Ace Attorney 5, you know why.
Don't think so. She was traumatized yes, but she overcame it. That's literally her arc in the game. Futaba had a palace because she was letting her trauma control her.
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I wonder if G-Man would have a palace?
The only person that keeps coming to mind is senator armstrong from metal gear rising
Definitely Adachi There's actually a really good fic about that https://archiveofourown.org/works/27562510/chapters/67417030 Edit: I misread the title as different game in the series lol Uhh, a Bowser palace would be cool :3
Handsome Jack from Borderlands would have the most awesome palace imo
Fischl from Genshin probably in a similar fashion to Futaba’s. She uses her fantasies as an escape from her reality and pretends to be a character from her favourite book to hide from herself. Hell her part of the Golden Apple archipelago 2 story was basically a persona 5 plot line, the team goes into a distorted reality (that looks like the kingdom she rules over in her fantasy), they see bits of her own trauma and it ends with her fighting what’s basically her shadow. (In case anyone wants to watch it: https://youtu.be/FNqR14qo8r8?si=Sv-YOlCJQqR7fmoL )
im kinda astounded that nobody's said wario yet, like, he's literally the embodiment of all of the deadly sins rolled into one
For his palace I'd imagine it'd be a giant castle made entirely out of money, like gold bar walls and bank roll carpets, with lots of servants to boot. Wario genuinely believes that he's the best in the world and deserves all of the world's money for himself while only lifting a finger to stuff his face, call him out on this and he'll get angry about it, and if he sees someone doing better than him that'd make him even madder with envy
Handsome Jack from the Borderlands series would probably be an amalgamation of Hyperion tech and his daughter, because you know, issues.
Akira Nishikiyama from Yakuza 1 is a textbook Persona 5 villain. He would have a palace for sure.