Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-6274680-20171113235602/@comment-31418143-20180310074102

Eskaver wrote: Does Nook have grey in his hair? I thought that was the lighting. Maybe Hook just ages very poorly. After all, Belle was like 30 something with a strand of grey hair (unless Belle was older than we thought.) Belle had a long strand when she was essentially Skin Deep plus 16 (6 years uncursed + Gideon).

I would say perhaps NFTL has faster timeflow, but that really doesn’t explain much, unless Drizella was like 37 before stoning (Drizzy was around 12 when Alice was roughly born.)

The other anomaly are the Mills. I agree with CDA. Even with a conversative estimate that Snow was 22 and Regina was 30 at the strike of the Dark Curse, Regina would be at least 38 at Henry’s departure and even if the same year entering NFTL, would be 47 at Lucy’s 8th birthday. Zelena would be 48/49, as she entered about a year later. If Regina was 30 when she cast the curse, she must be 58 in season 1, but she didn't age because the time in Storybrooke was stopped until Emma arrived.

But when the time started to flow, it would be really stupid if Regina and all other Storybrooke inhabitants aged 28 years in a second. That would cause a disaster, many on them would probably die because of old age.

Henry's 10 in Season 1, so, if he's 18 when he leaves Storybrooke, then Regina would be 66. And all that with Henry growing up probably happens in like a day or two in Land Without Magic because time obviously flows diffferently in the NEF.