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NickM98 wrote: That is what I meant say and expanded.

Part 1. - memories that their EF counterparts had

Part 2. - That's where I mean "changed the past and realms it interacted with". The moment the wish was made and Emma blowing out the candle changed the past including Alice being born. Before the wish was made, no Alice and Gothel didn't have a daughter. The moment when the wish was made, Alice was born. It is not memories. It did change the past.

Part 3. Emma in the Wish Realm and then on. I personally disagree with the wish changing the past. I formed a theory that, from what we knew back earlier in the season, time in the "New Realms of Story" (NFTL, NWL) runs faster than in LWM and the "core" Realms of Story (FTL/WR, WL, Oz, etc.). Between the time that Serum Queen made the wish and Emma blew out her birthday candle in WR, time in WR was condensed (sped up) to allow for all of post-origin history including Hook's venture to NEF to find the flower.

Anonymous 1029384756 wrote: What if all their memories before Emma blowing out the candle are indeed fake, and th WQueen stayed young due to an error? Also and then when Gothel poisoned his heart it also caused him to age extremely rapidly as a side effect of the spell and then he went back and encountered Emma and WAugust. The WR counterparts' memories are only fake before the "origin", everything after that are real experiences. Emma is the only one whose full WR memories are fake as she was presumably inserted when she blew out her candles.

I do like the theory that WishHook aged faster due to his poisoned heart, but he appears to have aged at the same rate (30-ish years) as, WishSnow, WishCharming, WishPinocchio and others. We don’t know how old the other characters were at the time! You don’t exactly get it. I’m saying that their memories were fake and the WQueen was young because of an error.