Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25375217-20170815201511/@comment-25926288-20170826183620

CoolDudeAl wrote: He wouldn't be Naveen then, because that character is clearly a POC. He could be a prince with a different name, and relate back to the original Frog Prince story. But again, then he's not really Naveen, but a take on the unnamed prince in The Frog Prince. They could bring in an old, white man with purple hair and a very long beard dressed in wizardy robes and name him Naveen and he'd be Naveen.

The writers have authority over what happens within their universe. (Now, I obviously don't think the prince is Naveen but the one Cinderella would have fell in love with, nor do I think they'd case an eccentric elder to be Naveen.)