Hypothetical Question?

Theoretically, (before the series started) Barb was diagnosed with cancer. Bill, with his compound connections, brought Nicki to Sandy, Utah (where they lived) to help assist with Barb's care and recovery.

Several times during the series, they make references to that, and that they, aka Bill and Barb, married Nicki shortly after that time.For this to have happened, they needed to divorce / annul Nicki from JJ, who was her husband at one time.

That being said, then the acrimonious relationship between Roman and Bill must not have always existed.

I always wondered about that. They explain how it happens but why would Roman unseal his daughter who by this point has a small daughter with the man he forced her to marry and let her marry a man he did not really like and had kicked off compound property because the guys grandfather had been prophet.

Of course we know Bill still had ties to the compound; he had been in contact with his mother and brother (and erstwhile father) seemingly for years as an adult, and was welcome to visit them in their homes.

Maybe Joey & Lois plead Bill's case to Roman. In one episode, Nicki says she studied to be a nurse; maybe it was a concession to Bill for Roman to send her. And I think she was unsealed from J.J. because Roman didn't like what he was hearing about Kansas (not sure). He had this "used" daughter that he needed to reassign. And maybe he felt bad about assigning her to J.J. originally, so if she WANTED Bill, well...

I never got the sense that she was his favorite. Loved, yes. But not necessarily favored.

I'm on season 3 now and Barb said "With wife number two, I just got off my death bed, with number 3 I was hit with the babysitter. I'm not taking on a fourth."

In the doctor's office of Nikki's fertility specialist, she says, "We always planned on six or seven children, but sometimes the Lord makes that impossible."

My take is that she thought she was dying and wanting Bill to move on when she was gone. And she does feel guilty for not being able to have kids. So even if she knew she wasnt dying, she might still have felt guilty. When u see her with Margie's babies, you can see the longing in her for a baby.

However, in the epi where they are all dressed in white for a photo on the compound but Alby called the state troopers, Roman told her, "I didn't stop you went you wanted to marry Bill." Again, when Roman is crazy after the shooting and Nikki is shaving him at Bill's house, Roman said, "When you asked to marry him, you promised your obedience and devotion to me." So Roman did grant his permission for the marriage.

This is still strange since Nikki told bill it was indeed Roman, not Frank, who threw him off the compound. She told him that they are a lot alike, and Roman was afraid of him because he already saw he was ambitious.

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