Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7526254-20170430003451/@comment-7526254-20180407233233

Okay. That explanation helped a little, but I'm still really confused:

WR has the same timeline as FTL but time moves faster? I guess that kind of makes sense. Emma's wish would still have to take place at approximately the same time in both timelines (based on the characters age) but maybe the curse (that didn't happen) took place only 10 years earlier (in our time) instead of 30, or something like that. That actually clears up a lot.

There's still the issue with Robin. Her age does not seem to match up with the timeline compared to everyone else. She was 25 when the curse was cast, which would make Henry 38, and 40 in the present. That is not impossible, but very unlikely. Zelena also says that Robin aged faster where she was, even though she appeared to be in NEF for the years leading up to the curse and has aged at the same rate as everyone else. I'm going to need an explanation for that.

Let's say Henry is 38 at the time of the curse and Ella is a little younger. (I don't think you can curse a 38 year old into thinking she's 28. Even with the curse, she would notice.) This means Henry was 30 when he had Lucy and had already been exploring the realms for 12 years. That would make a little more sense. It would put Zelena and Regina in their 60s, but we agreed to ignore that.

Assuming Ella is 16 years older than Alice, she would have to be at least 33 when she meets Henry. That doesn't seem right. That means in the present she would be in her mid-forties. I don't think she's significantly older than Henry.

I'm still going with time being frozen in NWL because how else would she live long enough to meet Alice? This would make Alice even younger.