Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20161031005929/@comment-1916997-20161104174207

Hmcooper4 wrote: Jordy267 wrote: Sunny&#039;s Wig wrote: Henry was never cursed; that's why he aged normally, just like Ingrid. However, Ingrid not aging in the LWM is a strange case too. Maybe she found a way, like Cruella and Ursula's use of the egg where Lily hatched from. Didn't Ingrid age? I thought Ingrid wasn't that old when she first entered the LWM anyway, and then just aged normally but didn't become too old to do anything as Cruella and Ursula would have done. She was trapped in the jar before Elsa and Anna were born, in what I assume were her twenties, and presumably the jar had frozen her in time so she didn't age. Then by the time she met Emma she would probably be in her late thirties, early forties - a decent age to be a foster mother. And then finally in 4A she would be 60 at the oldest. You are right that Ingrid was in a Jar. But she was released prior to the Dark Curse. She appears in Boston in 1982, which is 1 year prior to the casting of the Dark Curse. She was with Emma when Emma was around 14 (give or take), so would have aged 15 years. Which if she was in her mid 20's when she was initally put in the Jar, then out briefly before coming to the LWM, she would have been probably in her late 30's or early 40's with Emma. and that would match her age when we see her in Storybrooke in Present day. So she did age while in the LWM, but stopped aging once she entered Storybrooke.

At least, that is the way that I see it and understand it.

Tieing this back into the discussion of Liam's aging, if Liam was in any of the magical realms during the initial casting of the dark curse, he should not have aged during the 28 years (based on what we saw with Ingrid, and tying in assumptions based on Wonderland). If he was outside of them the whole time, then he should have aged 28 years by the time we see him in the flashback, but Liam did not look like someone in their Mid 30's. This would seem to imply that he was out of the Magical realms for only part of the time of the Dark Curse, returning probably after it was broken initially, which is what we see in the flashback. Still a very curious situation. A lot of this just has to do with consistency though, they don't want to have to hire more actors then they have to, as it both wastes time and money as well as being potentially cofusing for the audience, so in a case like Ingrid, we just have to believe she aged, but it is not visible. And this isn't unique to Ingrid, plenty of other characters are shown at different ages played by the same actor. And Once isn't the only show that does this either. As for Liam, if he aged 28 years and he was 8 when Hook killed his dad, that would mean Liam is 36 when we see him. And as someone pointed out, the actor is 30 years old, so it is possible the character is 36 and just has a bit of a baby face.