Bambi: The Crazy Deer Story (aka the explanation written on easy, I'm half asleep, there will be typos)
Okay, so Bambi is your basic young buck growing up in ___(possibly enchanted forest?),Irving at his mother's side 'cause he hella mommy's boy. As a male, he learns that all mature bucks are called 'prince of the forest', seemingly 'cause they protect other animals from. In his early years, however, he meets 'the trapping prince', 'the human befriending prince', 'prince arrow dodger', all of them having so form of princely skill they ironically died by when he hung around long enough. It was wisdom of an old deer couple at basically told him that the title of prince was pretty much prideful bullshit, and that they lived only 'cause humans had let them (maybe the humans nearby had specific rules/conduct for hunting seasons).
Disillusioned and somewhat depressed at a young age, Bambi goes to sleep one night and dreams of eventually wandering through the night and meeting some sort of sorcerer who is somehow able to communicate with animals. The sorcerer offers Bambi the chance to become not 'a prince of the forest', but 'THE prince of the forest...of course, it takes some sort of long explanation for the distinctions...but Bambi agrees, though is somewhat perturbed as the sorcerer didn't exactly explain what sort of payment, though Bambi dumbly didn't ask.
And so, the sorcerer scoops up and offers Bambi a handful of dirt, as that's 'what humans are made of'...which Bambi manages to somehow choke down. the sorcerer chuckles, explaining how they didn't expect he'd actually do it. The next part of this bizaar ritual is some sort of fruit juice baptism, with the sorcerer pulling out what looks to be a pear and squeezing it out over Bambi. The apparent juice is red, Bambi looks up through the pouring red to properly see the fruit and notices that it seems to be made of pulsing meat, he then notices his own mother's corpse nearby.
Waking up, the young Bambi knew that the contract has been fulfilled...knowledge of deer to human shifting in his mind like an intrusive thought, and mother no longer with him, Bambi got to work learning about how the other half--this new human part of him could live. Taking on a human form, Bambi somehow got taken in by a family of hunters...which was fitting, as human hunters ruled all the deer. His first kill of his own kind in his late teens, he learned that his magical power and knowledge grew stronger every time he killed a male deer...honing enough magic in his twenties, he eventually killed this family of hunters and returned to the forest. Basically power hungry for a while, he went to work killing buck and turning doe into stone.
There was a curse attached to this deal, however, like always. Ruling as what he pridefully believed to be prince of the forest, enough bucks along the last bit of magical knowledge hit him. Prince of the forest indeed...he'd never do to a kingly age, ever. As soon as he reached twenty-five years, he'd turn back into a five year old child again...so, with only a few years left, he got hold of some random new female apprentice to learn magic, to eventually teteach him once he became a child.
Of course, it became harder to just be fine with this, as the apprentice and master would fall in love. Still, Bambi became child th no memories, and lover ended up in the role of surrogate mother and teacher. Overtime, she'd eventually get sick of all this and leave the boy with some humans never to return again. Overtime, the only thing that remained was Bambi's vicious cycle of rebirth, cycle of finding a love interest who ends up baby sitting 2/3 of her life, a grove of stone deer in the deepest parts of the forest...not even the great and powerful deer-man magic, all that remained of that was Bambi knowing/being able to shift between deer and humans form, and the vague knowledge of having the title of prince of the forest.
TL DR; with enough time, even the most evil/good become dumb.