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The Dark Curse places everyone in stasis. That stasis is broken when Emma comes to town. How do we know? Nobody has aged and Ashley remains preganant.

Blue transformed Jiminy and (key word: and) halted his aging process. As the Dark Curse reverts magical transformations, Jiminy returns 50 to 60 years later the same age. The Dark Curse doesn’t deage people that aged naturally.

Do fairies age? Yes. Otherwise, the aging powder would have no affect. This could be due to the Dark Curse reverting them to be “human”. How could this be justified? Take Blue out of the equation. We have a human become a fairy and by all accounts lives tens of thousands of years in a realm of accelerated time flow and not age a day. It stands to be the case that fairies might not age, but when “turned human” is when they are susceptible to age.

Wish Hook’s situation is unique and lacks enough information. However, it stands to be pretty much leaning towards: He was made young physically. What proof is there besides him living? Well, he shows no signs of old age without pain or whatever bumbling mental capacity he had before. Another ten years go by and he appears to be roughly the same. If he’s at least 60s in 7x01 (which is a stretch), he should be 70s by the curse. Could this be abusable? Maybe (as the writers don’t really think things through), but it may not as “how often do you get fresh blood from your younger self?”. The Dark Curse also didn’t revert this. If it was a glamour, it would be gone. Aging spells aren’t always active, but a glamour would have to be.

I’d argue that stasis is often used in other “non-aging” forms of magic. The Sleeping Curse keeps your body in stasis forever. The Preservation Spell keeps your body as it is when cast. The Dragon Eggshell had something that preventing aging/the effects of aging, whether it was temporary stasis or rejuvenation.