Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-34563899-20180218220444/@comment-28162607-20180220215904

Touli2 wrote: Aine1989 wrote: Touli2 wrote: Neal's age at the time he had sex with Emma is never stated.

And to all those saying "he was in Neverland for hundreds of years, therefore he was hundreds of years old" that logic is wrong.

People don't age when they are in Neverland. Neal was 14 when he entered it, no matter how long he spent in Neverland he was 14 when he left. So no, Neal is not hundreds of years old. But mentally he was 200. His mind did not stop aging.

And his biological age was stated; it was on the wanted poster that his year of birth was 1977, so he'd have been 22/23. Hm, have you ever seen or read any of the Peter Pan stories outside of Ouat? In those stories Neverland is meant to be a place where children dont grow up, where childhood never ends. The concept is illogical so I can understand why you might be struggling to grasp it, but it is the concept regardless. OUAT did not create Neverland, the Peter Pan stories did, and in those stories Neverland is a place where aging does not happen, where children never grow old and can be children forever. Your logic only works if Bae was a lost boy, which he was not. If I remember correctly, he wanted off the island and was not under Pan's spell, so his brain was still developing.