Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7526254-20170430003451/@comment-31231929-20180303135245

Time moving twice as fast makes sense, but Emma was in her 30's in 7x02, not her 40's. Emma would have been 34 when Henry left Storybrooke at 18 (she turned 35 that year, but Henry left in the summer before her birthday) and if time in the NEF moves twice as fast as the EF/LWM and Henry met Ella a few years later (say 21), then Emma would have only aged a year and a half and be 35. The oldest she could be with this time theory and if Henry met Ella in his early 20's is 38.

But there is a bit of a conundrum regarding Robin being 18 when she went to the NEF since if she grew up in Storybrooke and went to the NEF at the same time as Lucy's birth, then that would mean Henry and Ella had Lucy about 13 years after Henry left SB according to SB time. Robin is 5 when Henry leaves SB and if she grew up in SB and goes to the NEF when she is 18, 13 years would have passed in SB from the 7x01 flashbacks to the 7x11 flashbacks and 6.5 years in the NEF. If all this is true, then Emma would have been 48 when Lucy is born which doesn't make sense unless she was born 10 years after Henry and Ella met which is highly doubtful. The only reasonable explanation I can think of for this is that Robin grew up in the NEF, but 7x11 indicated she grew up in SB, so idk.