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Begfhn wrote: PegLegPrincess wrote: Begfhn wrote:

Lacey does not take place 4 years before the curse. It takes place less than 2 years before the curse because it takes place after "Smash the Mirror" (1982). Therefore, Roland's age does not make sense.

Wouldn't Roland actually have been more like 3 years old when the first curse hit in 1983? Because Robin says he's 4 in "Quite a Common Fairy" (S3:E3), and I got the impression that would be approximately a year (maybe a little less) after Emma broke the Dark Curse, which unfroze the people who remained in the EF, so Robin, Roland, and his Merry Men actually experienced normal time during that year. So that means "Lacey" should have taken place in about 1980, which still doesn't match up with "Smash the Mirror." But we could say there was a time travel delay for Ingrid arriving in our world maybe? Like how in the first episode of season 2 Emma and Mary Margaret's arrival in the EF seems a little delayed, unless they were lying in that pile of rubble knocked out all day while Mulan, Aurora, and Philip were dealing with the wraith. How long does Belle live with Rumplestiltskin? She is released only about a year before the curse. Since Belle saw a pregnant Marian with Robin fairly early on during her time with Rumple, and Robin says Roland is four in 3A (apparently only a month or two after Dark Curse is broken, so he would have been four when the Curse originally hit) she must have started living with him about 1979-80ish. Although I would have thought he released her a bit more than a year before the Curse, unless Snow and Charming took over George's kingdom very quickly, which I suppose is possible if his subjects didn't like him, but I don't think we ever got the people's opinion of him as a king.