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CadoDoan wrote: Schroeswald wrote: There is a difference from looking young and not aging, looking young is basically glamour, something that isn’t too hard.

Physically stopping yourself from aging is much harder as we’ve only seen a few special cases, and whatever happened to Nook also fits somewhere in this equation, he youngified himself but that probably would have worked if he used Emma’s bloood. Nook used Hook's blood, not Emma's.

Glamour is only an allusion, which does not affect the caster at all, only the world. Biologically, when you age, some of your organs begin to get out of order. Regina is more or less 50 years old by now without the Dark Curse. If she only glamoured herself, Regina wouldn't even run from a street to another like she does xD

Playing with aging (accelerating or reversing) may be difficult, but I don't think it's very hard to stop at your current age. I also do not see a difference between those I mentioned. I’m saying that if Nook took Emma’s bloods it also would have made him young, but he would be Emma.

That is exactly what I’m saying, glamorizing yourself Young is easy but you don’t get any advantages besides being pretty.

I do think it was a hard to stop at your current age, IIRC Smee asked Rumple to do that and he couldn’t, that doesn’t mean that at the time of the DC he couldn’t but it does mean it takes a lot of power and experience, beyond the basic DO starter pack. Everyone who has stopped aging on their own has been very powerful (except maybe Fendrake but we don’t know enough about him to make that call), if it was easier more magic users would do it.