Captain
He hates the Alliance. It defies everything he stands for, and everything he's ever stood for in his life. He was raised to believe in independence, and freedom of will. The Alliance wants to take that away.
It tries to force everyone to think and believe the same way.
But his parents raised him better. He knows that you cannot put human will into a box, and you cannot bend it to your own desires, no matter how hard you may try.
From the time that he was born, he was given a very clear set of values. As far back as he can remember, they were schooled into him. He was taught what in the 'verse is good, and what is not. The very difference between right and wrong, and where that oh-so fine line between them sits.
He's carried those lessons with him all of his life.
Through everything he's been through, they've remained by him, resting in his heart. From his innocent childhood, through his difficult years as a young adult, and even now when he struggles to make it in the 'verse.
During the War, he might have broken a few of those rules that Mama taught him, but only so that he could keep on fighting. Only to survive so that he could continue to defend what was right. To protect the right to choose.
Even now, he might bend those rules a bit.
But only so he can get by. Because with the 'verse being as mean as it is—and with it being under the Alliance's thumb—he's got to do all he can just to get by. Just to keep his boat afloat, and just to make it.
Because when it comes down to it, he'd rather bend the rules now and be able to defend them later than to stand by them completely and go down now.
And he has to stretch things now for the benefit of his crew. Because he is their Captain, their leader and defender, among a million other things. And that means he has to watch out for them at all costs.
He feels the burden of that every day, pushing down on his shoulders.
But he shoulders it for them, out of love.