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Idea 6

So this one is going to be focused on a non sexual relationship, but a romantic one and it's going to be pretty strange, like a ghibli studio sort of strange.

the main character will be a 'normal' girl who doesn't really have a family (details to be decided) so she doesn't really have anyone who cares all that much about her, like someone people don't usually notice, but she absolutely loves everyone.

She stumbles across a cave, and in this cave she finds a sort of human skeleton with a bull skull for a head, it walks around and has a conscience and talks. It meets her and invites her in and calmly explains that because she stumbles across this cave, she is bound to it until she dies, and that he hopes she doesn't mind but there is nothing that either of them can do about it (roll with me on this one). oh and skeleton thing is immortal.

The cave is decorated by shelves and all sorts of awesome looking jars and strange objects and test tubes books and papers just lying around everywhere; you know, like the mystical wizard den kind of look, complete with floating fire things just for effect and confirmation that it is indeed magic.

Something catches her eye, and it is a jar with a sort of knuckle inside it, floating in some liquid that is preserving it (don't ask me how she knows, she just does) . 

She points at it, and asks bull head thing 'what's that?' and he says 'bravery'.

She's weirded out by this but lives with it and the book will contain a series of cool conversations about this, like:

'but don't you get bored living forever and doing nothing'

'how can you get bored of asking questions and acquiring knowledge?'

It teaches her to question things and the beauty of the surrounding possibilities and things waiting to be explored, even if you thought you had see it all.

At some point in the story, it will catch her wrist and say 'what delicate wrists, holding so much of a burden and still stubborn in remaining weak' when she's organising some books.

It eventually asks her to refer to it as 'sir' to make things easier, because there is only so much the human mind can understand, and what it is is something beyond human capabilities to grasp.

She eventually falls for it, not 'his' body, it is a skeleton, but she loves 'his' mind and his soul, which 'he' shows in the little things and gestures. Like his curiosity that can never be quenched and his intensity of thinking and absorbing who she is, as if he is scared he won't learn enough about her in time. She never tells him and knows he is incapable of romantic and sexual love but wonders if he is aware of her love for him.

This will be set in a time where the people are only aware of two genders, so she labels him as a he, he allows her, saying that her generation won't understand what he is yet, but one day people might start to loose their obsession with genders.

It will tug at the heart strings because it will teach the reader what love can be, with an underlying message as to how beautiful love is, even if you are asexual.

She will eventually grow old and die, he will not. When she dies she will leave with the unsaid thought at the forefront of her mind, 'did he know i loved him'. 

He will always remember her and preserve her essence in books, drawings and memories.

The epilogue will be another girl stumbling across the cave, in our generation. She will look at a jar, and see a wrist bone and ask 'what's that?' and he will answer 'unconditional love'.

I think that the epilogue will draw the story to a close, implying that the story the book was based on, the girl it focused one was one of many and that it was a cycle that kept repeating, making the reader wonder what it's like to store the souls of those who died in his arms in his mind and the fact that the ending mirrors the prologue, or first chapter (probably going to be the first chapter) adds to idea of a circle.

It will also answer the question of whether or not he was aware of her love, when he knew she couldn't return it, he loved her in his own way and it adds to the effect vulnerability of this girl emanates. That though no one cared for her, she loved everyone with the whole of her being, expecting nothing in return and hurting because of the innocence of her heart. 

That's it, I don't know whether to make it into an animation or a book, or when I'm going to make it because I don't exactly have a lot of free time, but I'm rather fond of this one.