Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-2153169-20171120155605/@comment-25926288-20180518111531

FrancisPaul wrote: One problem with that. WRumple had history with the WSeer, which, in OG EF happened much earlier than the casting of the curse. The fact that WBae was alive all those years later, allowing for WHenry to be his son, the fact that WHenry is still named Henry independently of WValet's existance or not etc.

One could argue literally anything, like: has WRumple ever killed WZoso? Hardly, since he shares the same Darkness with Gold, it means that there was no such WDarkness or WMerlin or WDark One until WRumple came into existance, already as a Dark One.

If Gideon can age 28 years in the blink of an eye, I don't see why would it be too hard to believe the WR history happened ultracondensed up to the point of Emma's birthday. It's not a concept the writers aren't familiar with. Under Cado’s theory, (which is pretty solid)) is akin to the false memories of the Dark Curse. No one here is going to argue that Regina really was elected Mayor and that Dr. Hopper actually went to college for his degree.

So, W!Rumple’s memories are fake/a copy of Rumple’s as are Nook’s, etc, this WR is like SB and instantly spawns with at the casting of Wish Queen’s Curse.

So, 30 years does pass within a day, then proceeds to equate time flows.

With that, it can make sense of NFTL timeflow as well.

See if Ella is roughly 14 in NFTL when Nook visits, Henry is also in SB at age 13. Then, between those two timeline across theory, NFTL and LWM would actually progress at the same timeflow with Ella being around Henry’s age.

Plus, post the 30 year day, WR proceeds with LWM. So, it can actually be that post-Wish day, all three realms proceed at equal timeflow as nearly all other worlds do.

I’ll make a separate thread about this.