The characters from Persona 5 / Royal are a special case. They are actual Persona users but have an unknown connection to the protagonist's cognition and appear as cognitions. As the male silent protagonist (who is named by the player, though he is canonically named Nagisa Kamishiro[d], but also https://connerkrxbg.blogsmine.com/37190180/persona-5-the-phantom-x-secrets