A realistically humble, shrewd judge of character at the age of seventeen in a war zone
I've been building up a nameless sci-fi about teenage soldiers and children hijacking a rejected but still functional Battlestar ship and escape their warring Solar System in search of a new home. They're lead by a seventeen year old Commander and my idea is that he's very mature and humble and never seeking out glory, only the survival of those under him while being a shrewd judge of character and surroundings but would it realistically work out;
The Commander (17): Despite being a deadly competent soldier, he's the humble, reluctant High Commander who just see himself as just a Mission Commander, never seeking glory or gain, only make sure there's no casualties but take full responsibility for the safety of The Deserters.
Whenever he do questionable decisions he humbly learns from them and listen and consider when his crew criticize him and are able to come up with compromises.
Despite insisting the opposite about his heroics, brushing them off as just duties or make sure those under his charge live for another day, The Commander is a very competent and sympathetic leader who only seek out the competence in people he work with and he's showned to be a good reader of character and situations which helped him see his former captor The Cyborg being blackmailed with the latter's ten year old sister as a hostage and against his judgment The Commander didn't see an enemy but a victim which convinced The Cyborg to trust him in order to save the former's sister and during the rescue infiltration to save the girl, was about to shoot the last enemy lab staff member, which would become The Medic, whom he could read was filled with regret and The Cyborg's sister vouched for her causing The Commander to spare the woman who immediately defected to their side.
The Commander never looking for glory only the safety of others are the crush of The Medic and are at first oblivious but eventually returned her feelings.