As soon as he said "it's my last day on duty", I knew how this was going to end.

Fire Emblem typically does both; actually. Weirdly there's almost always one demographic of disposable mooks and one demographic of people YOU MURDERED YOU BASTARD.

Fire Emblem GBA: Morphs – not people; Black Fang – people
Sacred Stones: Monsters – not people; Grado – people
Awakening: Risen – not people; Plegians – people
Fates: Vallites – not people? Nohrians/Hoshidans – people, and also the protagonists of the other game.