I know I’m hella late but I feel like my answer for why bill had so many wives in his cult (although I will admit I have not seen all of the cult stuff yet) is because he just sorta, feels ‘bad’ for wives in shitty relationships, like, when we’re going thought bill’s history with earth in the book of bill, we specifically have a detour for the Salem Witch Trials where bill shows up as a goat to help wives that were witnessing each other either get worked to the bone or basically die to bullshit trials by both giving them access to actual witchcraft and also iirc implied to kill their shitty husbands?
Point is, watsonian wise, I don’t think bill has a bunch of wives in his cult for sexual or hyper specific reasons or the like, I think bill has a bunch of wives in his cult because he basically goes up to them, goes “hey, you shitty relationship is shitty and looks like it sucks, you wanna join the cool club?” and most of them just, do to spice up their lives
TL:DR Women just really like chaotic demonic triangles
"Bill was doing it just to be nice" is somehow the most hilarious possible explanation AND it has plausible textual support.
although pretty clearly from the chapter it didn't go "ladies, do you wanna marry me?" so much as "men, let me marry your wives!" so i don't think he invited them, it sounds like he just sorta ordered them. But still. Doesn't rule out the possibility he was trying to do a favor.












