Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-62.47.5.233-20130531140725/@comment-108.49.79.202-20130531154029

PLEASE NO CAPTAIN SWAN JESUS STOP IT PLEASE

That said, I don't think it works quite like that. See, we know a few things-we know that Rumple and Bae are both over 200 years old. We know Rumple lived that long because he's the Dark One, and we know Bae lived that long because presumably he spent most of that time in Neverland.

We also know that Baelfire came to our world and only then started aging. And we know that Hook is really from Rumple's time, from the time before he became the Dark One, which would put him at around 200 years too, and yet he hasn't aged. Also because he's in Neverland.

Now, when Hook and Baelfire left Neverland, did they go to the time at which they had entered? That is to say, in EF/LWM/SB, did Baelfire arrive back in LWM and start to age the same day that he left EF through that pit with his father? No, no he did not. Because we know that Rumple aged 200 years roughly, technically speaking, between when he lost Bae and between when the Dark Curse was enacted.

Time runs in Neverland just like it does in SB, EF, and LWM, people just don't age.