I need to give J.Lee the credit he's due. I ignored his advice and wrote a fuge on the Cm theme (well - partially, anyway-unfinished) - with an exposition that followed a Tonic-Mediant-Tonic-Dominant format. Needless to say - Tonic doesn't feel like home. Mediant does, for some reason.
Here it is for example sake.
My revolutionary days are over.
Thanks J Lee.