Now posted my first attempted acapella of the above parody lyrics on Soundcloud (Stream Toss A Coin To Your Rebel (XoR) by Sushi Ozpin | Listen online for free on SoundCloud); hope you guys enjoy it!
Interesting; I’ve never heard of (or ate) lefse before!
(apparently, Google says it’s some sort of Norwegian potato carb that resembles a tortilla).
From your personal experience, how does lefse taste compared to the average Mexican (or Americanized) tortilla?
No worries, take as much time as you need! But even if there is no pre-existing history/precedent for a Hegemonic waffle, then I suppose it will be up to our MC’s to make our own history.
Or better… perhaps instead bake our own history! 
Clearly, you’ve led a very informative (and eventful) life; as usual, I’m intrigued!
#1: When you say “coopted”, were you referring to my earlier suggested “(insert current leader) is framed for an egregious crime that they didn’t commit” scenario, or did you perhaps instead have a different action/example in mind? (from what you witnessed of the real-life country)
#2: And based on the “was” and “for a long while” descriptions, is it safe for us to assume that the coopting has finally come to a long-deserved end?
Never have I ever heard of such a scenario! (in which both the defendant and plaintiff co-conspire to work towards the same ‘no-brainer’ verdict in a sham trial, all because the plaintiff is too afraid to do their job)
Once again, real life turns out to be stranger than fiction! 
Okay, so it’s just as I suspected/feared: complete pardons = political suicide (aka my ex-helots will probably splinter away from me in retaliation).
So what if the aristo MC instead handed out mitigated punishments instead? (to communicate a more nuanced “forgiven, but not forgotten” stance)
(More specifically, Hector and Calea are spared from retaliatory maiming/killing, but the two will still have to make amends in other ways, e.g.
#1: They pay considerable fines to the victims (or families of victims) that they’ve previously wronged and/or killed (moderate enough for Hector and Calea to not suddenly go bankrupt, but stinging enough to communicate to the ex-helots that the aristo MC is willing to hold his fellow aristos accountable for bad behavior).
(and PS, for bonus flavor, perhaps Calea makes a sassy G1 callback comment about the fine,
e.g. “You once promised me that you and your rebellion would make yourselves accomplices to my continued tax evasion; what you’re suggesting is a violation of our arrangement.”)
#2: Or if Hector and Calea are feeling too possessive of their money, then an alternative would be to compel them to submit to one winter of house arrest (living in a helot home that obviously doesn’t have the luxuries they’re accustomed to, while also being put under constant surveillance).
Would it be possible to do the usual “homelander vs. cosmo” stat allocation treatment for pirate vs. corsair?
(with self-proclaimed pirate MC’s gaining cosmo points while self-proclaimed corsair MC’s gain homelander points?)
However, this is hinging on my assumption that “corsair” originated from Shayardene language (and not from other provinces), so I’d like to know your stance on this.
Here’s another angle to consider: what if, instead of using “lathraia” as a commonly used verb, Lathraia simply becomes the name of your latest smuggler NPC? (whose gender is either nb or “ala Breden” gender flippable)
Is it because the very concept of privateers hasn’t even been invented/considered yet, or instead because most XoR nation-states simply don’t want to hire privateers?
I know you previously stated how it was impossible for the MC to personally forge anything by himself, but if MC taught enough of his rebellion colleagues “their letters/numbers”, then could MC outsource the “forge archeological records/birth certificates/family trees” task to his followers?
(or instead hire the best counterfeiters from G2’s drudge/day laborer population to do the forgery on MC’s behalf)
Out of curiosity, is this because of her own common sense/personal code, or perhaps because of old-school Shayardene teachings (e.g. “polygamy is despicable, or instead allowable but frowned upon”) that she learned from her tradition-oriented family?
Dang, prejudices certainly do die hard, don’t they?
And on another note, might it be possible for a male helot MC to perform a Theurgic makeover on himself to impersonate Abelard? (thus, secretly usurping control over the entire Laconnier faction)
And if G1’s remaining confiscated blood supplies are not enough to cover the cost, perhaps MC could trick the Laconniers into footing the bill? (by marketing the impersonation as a way for MC to act as Abelard’s “most useful decoy/body double/bodyguard”).
Wait a minute, both Elery and Bethune have yeoman backgrounds!
Could an aristo MC successfully pass off either of the two as his “nouveau riche entrepreneur plus one” during G2’s Grand Shayard parties?
At the very least, this makes for an amusing “if pigs fly”-style comment to incorporate, right? 
(assuming we edit out the real-life names for XoR counterparts)
Fantastic! 
By the way, how high of a charisma stat check would MC need to pull off my suggested stunt/alliance-builder?
Does he have to fully specialize (e.g. upgrade from 2 to 3 CHA, thus missing out on G1’s Theurge Build), or if lacking, can he instead rely on high-CHA NPC’s (e.g. Breden) to make up for the difference?
(e.g. acting as “Heralds of the Eclect”)
Speaking of the Eclect, I would like to revisit a previously discussed topic (regarding G3’s syncretic Xthonic/Abhuman religion).
Because my Eclect MC has an obvious interest in brokering a peace (or at least tolerance/co-existence) between his “normies” (aka his current “Church of Xthonos” denomination/flock) and the “syncretics,”
what if he had enough CHA/INT/Cosmo (or “conveniently unearthed” archeological evidence/records, if he goes down the forgery route) to re-contextualize the (otherwise pagan/heretical) Abhuman pantheon as mortal, foreign Eclects who were deemed worthy of performing great miracles on Xthonos’ behalf?
Looking forward to the “Fortune Restored” achievement for aristo MC’s who rebuild (or exceed) their family’s historical net worth!
And speaking of money, might there be an optional G2 side quest for MC to help Carles covertly steal back his earnings from Gellard?
Last I remembered, Gellard became quite rich from extorting/intimidating Carles, and perhaps (our now older and more experienced) MC might now be in a position to help Carles settle the score?