Princess Peach was really just like “my castle is gonna be a weird museum with maybe some living quarters tucked away somewhere but mostly just magic portals to battlefields and slides” and everybody was like yeah you beautiful binch go ahead
There’s a whole fucking room in the castle that’s just a long corridor with a portrait of bowser at the end. There’s another specifically designed to be a trick of perspective so you run towards a portrait of a goomba that looks like it’s right in front of you but it’s actually far away and huge. There’s a room filled with paintings and then a mirror wall so you can like, see the paintings reflected, I guess?
Princess Peach just has a bizarre series of magical art installations and that’s her house
Like she LIVES there. That’s her HOUSE. She was like “hey toadsworth can we have a giant grandfather clock that if you jump at it it takes you to a magical world inside the clock but depending on what time you jump in the moving parts of the magic clock world will be faster or slower” and toadsworth was like “k lol” in her HOUSE
What I’m saying is Princess Peach is a fucking legend
Years ago, my husband sent an email to Nintendo asking them a bunch of questions about Mario 64; stuff like “How do Bobombs reproduce?” and “Who does the second baby penguin belong to?” and that. I bring it up because one of the fifty-odd questions asked was “Why is there no furniture in Princess Peach’s castle?”
Nintendo of Europe answered every question, so I can canonically tell you that Princess Peach is so rich that she owns two castles, one for furniture and one for all her artwork.
(In case you’re wondering, the answers to the other two are “Through a mixture of gunpowder and love” and “No one. It is its own penguin.”)
There’s extra, and then theres Princess Peach