Zidane blinked, then shrugged his shoulders. "Guess you could say that." Freya had a tail as so did her people. Human and animal had mixed in with his world on Gaia, but on Terra...
... He wasn't about to tell Asch that he was half-human, but half-gnome as well. Birthed by Garland in Terra, he had been created to set out the destruction of both worlds, but Kuja has been angered that another gnome was more powerful than him and had banished Zidane on Gaia. The thief, himself, hadn't found out about his own world until Garnet had asked him to kidnap her, he agreed to it and eventually ended up in his world.
His gnome stats could explain his height too. All of his people had been short.
The thief figured that Asch came from a world where it was just humans living around then. But he didn't comment on that. "So, what do you want to know?"