So, no matter what plan wins, and assuming we don't find a very time consuming plot that we have to take.
How do you all feel about rushing the League and rising up as quickly as possible? I'm talking diving in there and battling our way to the top at a downright Red Isamu speed. Eight badges in our first year? That's baby shit, let's aim for Champion rank. If we don't have the influence we need socially, we can always gain it via amassing large amounts of force.
It fits the Noblesse Oblige plans, having a Champion ranked subordinate is probably a dream come true for many a conspiracy so it fits the Sympathetic Criminal, and if you think being the biggest kicker of ass since that Hitmonlee fell into an aquarium full of Luvdisc doesn't fit Genghis Khan the Redheaded Barbarian I don't know what to tell you.