It’s a long story.
While traveling through the woods when i was a child, i crossed paths with a mysterious (yet seemingly well-intentioned) faun. I was unafraid of him and instead felt curious, having never seen a faun before. He in turn seemed curious of me, and urged me to sit with him. For quite some time – we talked about all sorts of things! He delighted in talking to a small human creature, so unlike himself – yet in some ways he sensed me to be similar.
Eventually, he told me the perils of being a human marked as “girl”. He told me how he generally loathed humans, but felt pity for their obsession with binary sexuality and physical representation and expression of such. He said if i would devote myself to him as a God, and his forest, and would sacrifice a “feminine” human form – he would allow me to stay in the woods as one of his children. He said he would be saving me a lot of pain existing in the human world. Plus I would get to live every day among the animals, trees, and beasts – as one of them! This was an incredibly rare opportunity. Humans generally were allowed through the forest, but not necessarily welcomed there. Of course, I agreed instantly. We made a blood pact over a bonfire, and it was done!
I lived in the woods with him for quite some time, growing taller than anyone expected, and quite lanky. My legs grew strong and thick – much like those of a faun – but my upper body never developed in any way thanks to our pact. Eventually other adventure drew me out of the woods, but i still go back to visit my friend every now and then.
Thank you for asking!