@frumpybutsupersmart wrote:
he said that Bae had “crossed the barriers of time and space”.
Yep, we dunno when on our real world timeline he arrived, so he could be pretty much any age…or he could have even grown old and died long ago.
In my take on the Peter Pan theory, he’d been visiting our world from Neverland for however long, but spending most of his time in Neverland, preventing him from ageing. Then he was in our world when the curse hit, which prevented him from going back to Neverland. That would mean that he got stuck in our world and began ageing at the same time that all the other characters came to our world.
Even without taking the Peter Pan theory into consideration though, he still could have arrived at the same time everyone else did if Rumple designed the curse to make it so.