Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7526254-20150520160921/@comment-7526254-20180520005217

I just realized something. Henry doesn't arrive in NEF until right before he meets Ella. Maybe he was traveling through all the other realms for about 5 years, while only 2 years passed in Storybrooke. He met Ella at around the age of 23 and then Hook and Regina joined him. At this point in SB it is around 2020, so Robin is 7. Let's say 4SB years = 1NEF year. Then Robin would age 11 years to 18 in about 3 NEF years. Hence, Robin is 18, Henry is 26, and Lucy is 1. This would make Henry 33 at the time of the curse, which is much more believable than 38. I see no flaw in this timeline.

If Alice was born 17 years before escaping the tower, this means she was born at least 68 years (our time) before Henry's arrival (2020). This means the curse almost took place in WR around 1952. We know SB and WR were at about the same time in 2014. This means 31 years SB time = 62 years WR. A 1:2 ratio. This would mean, however, that when Henry is 18 in SB WishHenry is 22. This doesn't make sense because he looks significantly younger. But we saw that he traveled the realms a lot, so maybe he did not age as fast and was only around 18 at the time of the finale. That all makes sense.

This does cause a problem for Hook, however. He has Alice around the same time as the would-be curse in WR and stays with her for about 10 years. 80 years would have passed in WR making it already decades after 6x11. I still need to find a way to work around that.

As for the Tremaines, nothing changes, but their ages still don't make sense. If Ella is at least 16 years older than Alice, she would be at least 43 at the time of the curse and I find that impossible to believe.

I still need to work a little more on this theory.