Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31445546-20170305122225/@comment-27488139-20170316183546

If he was the one who saw his home burn and is unable to return this could also mean Bill just does everything to get his home back. In the poem it even says that he had a crime. The crime has a chance of him burning down his town(he does have powers of pryokinese) and that probably is the reason why he is not happy, no matter how much insane laughter he covers it up with.

This also can be shown that this power he gets in the finale can't solve his probelms- getting his home back. Notice how in Gravity Falls everyone has gold and Bill says to buy it, Northwest gives Bill some cash, Stan says to bury it- remember that some say "wealth is power." Gold is a form of wealth, so gold = power. Back to Bill in the finale. He is able to transform Stanford into a gold-looking material. If gold = power, then this is to show Bill overpowers Stanford, but remember that money cannot buy you everything. Gold can't get you anything- power can't get you anything. In the end, Bill had to get into Stanford's mind and was unable to, resulting into his final resort: Axolotl. Even though he was defeated, he said Axolotl's name so he could have that chance of getting his home back.



That's just what I think anyway. Not sure if this all relates but me and my friend only thought of it because it might be possible that Bill Cipher was a God to other people in Gravity Falls once upon a time, and because we were think that the Northwest family was only rich because they worshiped Bill.