We don't have any good characters in early access (that's what Swen said). Thats mean, Lae and Astarion are evil characters, only they fully approve of the destruction of the grove. I believe that both can be won over to "neutral" side, but I do not believe that either of them was originally "good/kind".
It would certainly be interesting to compare the current romances to the romances with 'good' characters. Just to get a feeling of the writing. Maybe my confusion with the present character options is solely because they are the supposedly 'evil' ones.
I mean, no one is supposed to genuinely like evil characters. Except Viconia of course. And president Snow. And...