My favorite male character is Lee “Apollo” Adama.
While I certainly have not spent my life trying to please my emotionally absent father, I do otherwise relate to Lee. He is a stickler for rules, particularly I matters of honor and loyalty. Yet he knows when the rules have to be broken.
He never catches a break I love or life. Like Lee, I want to be a lawyer, but life has screwed me over at every turn no matter how close I have gotten. But I go on anyway, because that is what we are supposed to do.