I do not know if it´s because my character is female but Asterion is being very suave with her since the beginning. o.O
Gale seems approachable when you actually talk to him in the camp. The others not so much.

In the streaming interview Swen already told us that those will be the companions in the evil spectrum, and encourages us to try to be bad. I assume that meant the other companions would be different than this ones.
Maybe you have a rocky start so you can see for yourself that something changed later in the game when you have more approval? I hope to see changes in the future.