I've been thinking and talking about it this year, and I'd hate to say it, but probably everyone. "Hot" wouldn't be the right word for that, but "attractive" sounds about right. I love the way they've been given tiny little details making them if not 100% realistic but at least believable, some imperfections included. This is something that real people tend to hate about themselves, but when fictional characters have something like moles, stubble, uneven teeth, grown-out roots, scars, wrinkles, and alike, it magically increases their attractiveness in volumes.
But then I don't really know if I find the characters attractive because they are attractive, or because I've known and loved them for ages and the Remake has only intensified my affection towards them. When it comes to FF, all my theories come crashing down.
Okay, I'm not being completely honest. I have a soft spot for Zack. It's so soft it almost feels like my Achilles' heel. And in the Remake he looks absolutely stunning, fully fleshed out, and still bearing resemblance to his Crisis Core model (curiously, more to his in-game model than to his CGI one). Second best should be Cloud, because the way he's designed is - I'll just quote Johnny here - "poetry in violence". His arms a labyrinth of muscles, his tiny ballerina's waist, his deer eyes and the perplexity in his face, the way he moves and fights combined with Cody Christian's voice is just-- I don't know, that's too much to take. He looks like a glass figurine, like a piece of art, too beautiful to be real, too fragile to be protecting others, and yet, this is exactly what he's supposed to do. So yeah, I can't take my eyes off these two, but again, I can't fully separate my attraction to them personality-wise and my attraction to the visual side only; it's always the intricate combination of both that makes someone human.
After all, I love Barret's scars, and Tseng's long shiny hair, and Wedge's eyes, and Reeve's tired look, and Sephiroth's smile, and many other things that make each of the FF7 characters recognizable.