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title: the case of missing deputy jimmy solidarity-shadow author: theancientcitylibrary rating: teen and up audiences warnings: no archive warnings apply category: gen word count: 4.698k fandom: empires smp relationship(s): solidaritygaming | jimmy & ldshadowlady | lizzie, solidaritygaming | jimmy & goodtimeswithscar | scar characters: geminitay | gem additional tags: alternate universe, reddit post fic, r/unsolvedmysteries, write up format, additional warnings in notes summary: a write up on the mysterious disappearance of deputy jimmy solidarity-shadow by one u/bighatebutterflies || or out on a normal call, 24 year old james ‘jimmy’ solidarity-shadow was ready to talk with the encampment that had made it’s home on the outskirts of tumble town, but what should’ve been a normal call ended in what is considered Imperia’s largest mystery. series: jizzie serial killer au | whumptober 2024

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The Case of Missing Deputy Jimmy Solidarity-Shadow. u/bighatbutterflies

Out on a normal call, 24 year old James ‘Jimmy’ Solidarity-Shadow was ready to talk with the encampment that had made it’s home on the outskirts of Tumble Town. As a member of the Imperia Legal Headquarter: Subdivision 9, Jimmy was often the one who went out to talk with the group of homeless people as he had once been one of them before finding his place in society. But what should’ve been a normal call ended in what is considered Imperia’s largest mystery.

The Background:

On the outskirts of Imperia lies Tumble Town, formally known as Subdivision 9 when talking about it as a legal standpoint. It’s a quaint little town that still holds it’s charm from the era of cowboys and ravager herders. Most people in Tumble Town has one claim to fame, and that is that their family had been there to help the founding of said town with it’s founder, Solidarity [no relation to our missing person as far as I could tell]. As it was, the town was mostly quiet and the biggest scandal was when there was a crackdown on the “Tumble Town Bandits”, a local gang of kids who wandered around and participated in minor crime such as breaking and entering and stealing from the local store. It was actually Jimmy who had broken the case; it was one of his first and, according to many, what helped him rise above the stigma attached to Jimmy from childhood.

Jimmy had always wanted to be a member of the sheriff’s department, his older sister, 30 year old Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ Shadow said when interviewed two weeks after his disappearance. It hadn’t mattered that to many he was considered a criminal due to our parents, he wanted to see justice be served.

Jimmy had a past, or well, better put, his parents did.

Before Jimmy was born, his parents had founded Ocean Empire—an infamous cult that committed several large-scaled ecological terrorist attacks on the city of Imperia. It’s mission was simple, according to it’s leader, Aquis Shadow; they wanted the government of Imperia to answer for the crimes committed against the oceans. While their methods were outrageous, it was impossible to argue that they were wrong; in the years preceding the creation of Ocean Empire, Imperia had began dumping over 100 tonnes of garbage and toxic waste into the rivers, oceans, and lakes.

Still, Ocean Empire had mostly been a group of friends who got together to peacefully protest in front of large companies such as Rivendell Corp, and the NHO. That was before Aquis Shadow became engaged with foreign extremist, Rutos.

A little backstory on him for those who don’t know, Rutos was one of the most infamous terrorist that came out of the Riyah Shama—the group that broke from Imperia to create their own country in the desert. He was wanted to several attacks on the Imperia government alongside former President Aeor Major’s brother, Exor Major.

Back to Jimmy.

Jimmy was born six years after his eldest sister, and he was a surprise baby. His mother had suffered some issues bringing Lizzie Shadow into the world and was not sure that she could carry anymore children. Not much is known about Jimmy’s younger years besides that which Lizzie deigned to share during the interviews following her brother’s disappearance, but from what we can tell, he had a fairly normal childhood considering the circumstances. His parents had him home-schooled among the other children of Ocean Empire, and he did pretty okay throughout it.

His sister said that Jimmy was more sport oriented than reading, but that he was a bright child who brought joy to everyone who interacted with him.

As he aged, Jimmy started to find his place in his parent’s cult, being something of a tattletale who believed, unlike his parents, in the letter of the law. Of course, all this would come crashing down as when he was only 6 years old, his mother was assassinated and his father went missing himself. Ocean Empire began to crumble following the lost of it’s leaders, and many of the people who had once been fervent members of the cult began to say that they had been manipulated into staying; many former members came out and said that Aquis and Rutos had ruled Ocean Empire through fear and subjugation.

The crumbling of their home, and the slandering of their parent’s names, left 12 year old Lizzie and 6 year old Jimmy as unwanted orphans, with no one feeling comfortable taking them in due to their parent’s legacy. It is unknown what happened to them during this time period as neither sibling ever answered when asked, but it is supposed that they, like many unwanted orphans, found themselves living on the streets. At some point, Lizzie entered university in the town of Animalia, bringing Jimmy along. He was enrolled in Animalia’s school district from the time he was 13 to 18, where he graduated with honors, and then entered the local university where he majored in criminal law.

At 20, Jimmy graduated from Animalia’s university and began to look for a position in the Imperia Legal Headquarters. For those who don’t know, Imperia Legal Headquarters handle the assignment of all the officers of law, meting them out to the different districts of Imperia. This was probably hard for Jimmy, who would’ve struggled against his family name, but after a few short months, he was accepted as an officer and sent to the Tumble Town district.

The Disappearance:

At 19:46, a little over an hour after the sun had gone down, the Tumble Town department received a call about rowdiness at the encampment that existed on the outskirts of town. This was a normal occurrence, and the leader of the department (who’s name I am unable to find) decided to send out Jimmy.

As previously stated, this was normal as well—Jimmy was kind to those who lived in the encampment and was often able to break up any trouble before it began. What wasn’t normal was that Jimmy had just been at the encampment and had, supposedly, gotten them to head off as it was starting to enter the colder months, and he hadn’t been expecting them back for a couple more months.

Assuming that it was a few stragglers that had gotten lost, Jimmy headed out. A few members of the department, most notably Deputy Goodtimes, state that Jimmy did so brightly.

Deputy Goodtimes: Jimmy was a little worried about anyone freezing—if you didn’t know, the desert and mesa gets really cold at night—but otherwisely, he was always happy about going down there and talking with them. He always said that they were good people who had hit a hard rock and all they needed was someone to believe in them. --The Tumble Town Gazette, a week after Jimmy went missing.

Information gets a little hard to find, as the LE have not released most information regarding the case, which is understandable to a point given that it’s still an open case, but still. The BPS records have never been released but from what I could piece together by the information shared, Jimmy left the department parking lot at 19:50, and headed down the Left Road, heading towards Lost Forest. A local’s DocRing has his department issued car passing by Overgrown Street at 20:15, and that is, as far as we know, the last sighting of Jimmy.

Unlike many other disappearances, Jimmy was missed nearly immediately. After less than a half-hour after he left the department, another officer went out to look for him as he had not responded to any correspondence attempts made. The officer, currently unnamed but implied to have been Deputy Goodtimes, went out to the location given and found Jimmy’s car empty, with the car door open, upon which he called it in. The entire department basically emptied out and headed towards the forest, but even with this act, it was considered by many to be too late.

As it was already late when Jimmy had left, the department found themselves struggling to find any evidence of what happened in the dark of the night, but what was found was nothing special.

The Investigation and Evidence:

The investigation consisted of six long weeks of searching through the Lost Forest and the surrounding land. Over 2500 people came out to help, which was about more than two-thirds of the population of Tumble Town, and there was 10 search wolves that participated as well. The head of the department asked for help from the ILH, but I am unable to find if any ILH Agents were sent out or not.

The area searched was about four chunks worth of the forest and they spent basically all day and night out there, with only a few pieces of evidence being found (see evidence section).

According to a few of the members of the public search and rescue group, the search party was hindered by the lack of experience that the department held; it was said that they had no idea how to cut the different chunks up evenly, how to properly traverse the terrain of the forest, and struggled to keep the volunteers organized. The department argues that the volunteers were blowing things out of proportion.

Not a lot of evidence was found in the car or around it, but despite reports there was some evidence found.

1. A few bright orange and magenta colored fibers were found snagged on the edge of the passenger side of the vehicle. I’ve not been able to find any records of it matching any known fabrics, and the testing was pretty inconclusive as to if there was any DNA left behind on it. (source: 1 2 3)

2. A partial fingerprint that has never matched to anyone. As far as I can tell, they checked it against the Imperia Fingerprint Database which everyone after the age of 18 has to join but I’m not sure if the newspaper was correct or not as I can only find one source for this. (source: 1)

3. A boot/shoe print from someone other than Deputy Jimmy. From my sources, it seems as if it’s from a size 10 men’s shoe, either a work-boot or a pair of hiking shoes. (source: 1 2)

4. A torn piece of paper on the edge of the forest where Deputy Jimmy had parked his car. (source: 1 2)

5. A long drag mark near the river.* (source: 1 2)

Theories and suspects:

There’s not a lot here, mainly because of the remote location that Deputy Jimmy went missing from, but also because all testing has been private, and I can find no records of the information anywhere. The few theories out there are mainly from online forums and word of mouth from the area.

Theory 1: He ran away.

This is the most widely believed one due to the fact that Jimmy suffered a lot due to his name, and while things were looking up thanks to his promotion at work, it didn’t change that his personal life was still troubled. According to one of his neighbors, he had had a fight with his sister just a few days before his disappearance, a fight which had ended with slamming doors and changed behavior. As they had a close relationship, it was considered abnormal for them to argue, and there’s the belief that the argument, which was unheard of by the neighbor, left Jimmy so unnerved that he decided that he had to get away.

Some believe that it was because Jimmy had just gotten a promotion that had also included a pay raise that it was about money. As Lizzie had never held a (legal) job, it was supposed that since the Imperia government had just denied her motion for the money left behind by her parents to finally be released to her, that she was asking for money and that Jimmy was getting tired of helping her. While there are no records of Lizzie living with him, neighbors had said that she would spend upwards of 7 days out of the 12 in a week, and more than 8 out of 13 months with him in his small apartment.

This theory is predicated on the belief that Jimmy would leave everything he had gained behind to escape his sister, who many have called ‘controlling’, ‘obsessive’, and ‘stuck in the past’. Though, in the opinions of his department partner, Deputy Goodtimes, he would never do, and that any argument he may have had with his sister wouldn’t be out of the ordinary as they were like typical siblings.

I have trouble believing this one myself as it doesn’t answer the question of if he was really planning on leaving everything behind, why did he wait to go out on a call instead of during the time in which he was working the beat and could’ve done so more easily? Deputy Jimmy’s daily schedule included a four hour window in which he would’ve had time to disappear without immediately rising suspicions. There’s also the knowledge that none of his personal accounts have been touched in the time since he went missing, including his bank account which holds a good amount of money that he was saving up to move into a house somewhere in Tumble Town.

Theory 2: He was the victim of foul play from an encampment member.

Jimmy had, over his time as part of the department, multiple interactions with the encampment that made it’s home on the edge of Tumble Town near the Lost Forest. A group that considers itself “free-roamers” over homeless, they normally don’t find themselves in trouble with the law despite the fact that what they’re doing is considered illegal, but there have been several arrests made on members who reacted violently in the past to being asked to move. One such incident, Deputy Jimmy had presided over.

A month into his joining of the department, Jimmy had found himself on a call out to the encampment area near the edge of Lost Forest and the start of Grimmish Waterway. What was supposed to be a simple call for them to pack up and leave ended in a fight between Jimmy and two different members of the encampment. His partner, Deputy Goodtimes, said that the fight was because of miscommunication and not an act of aggression, and that by time they had left the encampment, all issues had been resolved.

We can’t ignore, though, that encampments such as the one that made it’s home in the Lost Forest often consisted of people who failed to comply with societies laws and that there have been several cases across Imperia where encampment members have been arrested for violent behavior.

Theory 3: He was assassinated due to his family’s past/His family’s history caused his disappearance.

Despite it sounding like one, it’s not exactly a fringe theory, though it does hinge on the belief that the ILH-slash-other government agencies found Jimmy’s rise in the Sheriff’s department a threat. The main meat of the theory goes that the ILH/government tried to railroad Jimmy in order to keep him a low-level grunt working the beat, and that when the Sheriff elected to promote Jimmy to deputy, he did so without the consent of the ILH. This caused issues and, after some waffling back and forth, the ILH sent out an assassin from the ML-SD, a special sector of the military that people believe perform assassinations for the government.

The ILH and the Imperia Prime Minister have stated that they find this theory in bad taste as “the Imperia government was overjoyed when Deputy Solidarity-Shadow moved away from his parents’ terror-filled legacy, and it finds his disappearance one that we hope will be solved when we find Deputy Solidarity-Shadow safely.”.

While I personally don’t know if I believe this one, it has good bones and does explain the lack of evidence present, especially since we all know that the government is shady, and have been found committing assassinations before, even teaming up with suspected terrorists in an effort to bring down the Riyah Shama. If you want a more in depth reading about our government, u/downwiththepoe has written several good write ups on crimes committed by the Imperia government, including writing one on this theory (here) about Deputy Jimmy. Their write up also includes a really good write up on if the ML-SD could actually be an assassin guild hiding in our military.

Theory 4: He was the victim of “The Slayer”, a supposed serial killer who has killed in several different districts.

For those who don’t know, “The Slayer” is a nickname given to a supposed serial killer who, if actually real, has killed over 25 people.

The first victims of “The Slayer” was found near the Mezalean Mesa. In the ruins of an ancient city, three archaeologists were found inside their campsite with their throats cut. Most LE believe that it was a robbery by a group of wandering Mesa people, but there are some who believe that this was the start of “The Slayer’s” spree. If said people are correct, the killer would go on to attack and leave bodies throughout the 26 districts of Imperia; most notably, three in Overgrown City, two in Animalia, six in Myth Land, two in Sanctuary, four in Dawn, and five in Stratos. There are varying theories on who “The Slayer” could be if they really exist, and they range from a terrorist from the Riyah Shama to it being a supernatural entity awoken by the first three victims. u/SoupAndOwengeJuice did a very thorough write up on “The Slayer” a few weeks ago (here) if you want a more in-depth exploration of that.

As for how it connects to Deputy Jimmy, since most of “The Slayer’s” victims were supposedly taken from secluded locations, and/or found in secluded locations, there are some who believe that the call that got Jimmy to head out to the encampment area was a false call by “The Slayer” intended to lure a LE out to the forest. Why “The Slayer” would want to do that is normally not mentioned, though some believe that it could be their way of branching out from their normal victim profile, or that said killer is showing signs of escalating in it’s attacks by choosing a victim who was a member of the ILH.

The biggest issue with this theory is that there isn’t much evidence, either to support that “The Slayer” was involved or that they even exist. Again, I defer you to u/SoupAndOwengeJuice’s excellent write up as that goes more into detail.

Theory 5: He was the victim of “The Sea-Witch”, another supposed serial killer who has also killed in several different districts.

“The Sea-Witch” is a nickname given to a supposed serial killer who, if actually real, has killed over 20 people. The ILH denies that any such killer exists but those who believes that “The Sea-Witch” might be Imperia’s first, and only, female serial killer.

First found killing during a peaceful time nearly 15 years ago, "The Sea-Witch" began her spree in the town of Stratos, where the body of a lawyer was found in the aqueducts near the border. Shortly later, another body, this time a shop-owner was found near the river. Both times, the ILH explained that they were individual deaths caused by ruffians in the area—something that Stratos is known to have in that area, though there were reports from various witness that claim, that days before the murders,

a bio-luminescent women walked out of the river, her eyes dark as she lead a child out of the river and into the local wild. her skin was a pale blue and her hair a mix of navy and blue strands.

Several residents of the neighborhood where the bodies were found believe this was the murderer in the two cases. Most in Stratos came to believe that when another two murders happened; an innkeeper who owned a location two roads from where the first victim was found, and a farmer who lived on the outskirts of town.

More murders would be associated with "The Sea-Witch" but in other locations, mainly Chromia, Gobland, and Glimmer Grove. All these bodies would, like those from Stratos, be found near a body of water not far from where the victim had either worked and/or lived, all would be found with "teeth-like" marks alongside parts, and many would be followed by the story of a bio-luminescent woman coming out of the nearest river. The major difference though, between these later bodies and the first few, would be that the later bodies would be held for longer—no longer were the kills and minor desecration all happening within a few hours, instead the kills and desecration would take place in an undetermined location and the victim brought back after the killer was done with what they were doing.

I did a better, more thorough deep dive on "The Sea-Witch" a few years ago (here) if you want to read my full thoughts and opinions on this supposed serial killer, and also get all the gory details (tw: canniablism).

Anyway, with all victims being found, and taken, directly from areas near waterways, many believe that “The Sea-Witch” abducted Jimmy and has yet to release the body, as there is a river that runs right through the area near where Jimmy went missing.

This theory is my favourite of all the popular theories surrounding Jimmy's disappearance, as it was getting around the time for "The Sea-Witch" to grab someone after her last victim, Jimmy was in an isolated area around the time that she often grabbed people, and that he was, much like her last victim, a member of the local law enforcement. The two biggest issue is that Jimmy doesn't fit her victim profile, and if she did grab him, then it's a sign that she's escalating in her kills, and that if she did grab him, she's been holding onto the body for a lot longer than she's ever held onto anyone else.

The Conclusion:

Jimmy has been missing for now over a year and a half, and his friends have never given up hope at finding him even if the ILH seemingly have. His work partner, Deputy Goodtimes, still patrols around the area that Jimmy went missing, hoping to find a clue that was missed in the initial search; his other co-workers go out to the forest every month to do a basic search for not only clues but any sign of him. Those from his school continue to put up posters, and those from his apartment building have paid off his rent since he went missing so that, if he ever shows up again, all of his stuff is exactly as he left it.

His sister, unfortunately, has fallen from public view. Besides the few interviews that she did in the beginning, it has been impossible to find information on what she has done, though we do know that she set up a reward for any information for Jimmy and joined in on every search that the Tumble Town department went on.

When Jimmy was last seen, he was wearing his Imperia-issued Tumble Town Deputy uniform, which included a department issued hat, and he was carrying his department issued bow with at least 32 arrows, and he had his department issued iron sword. Further description from his missing poster is as stated: Jimmy stood 6'5, had blond hair, and blue eyes; he has a little scar across his left chin from a childhood accident, and spoke in an Oceanic accent.

If anyone has seen him, please contact the Tumble Town Sheriff's Department at Comm-250622.

Sources: https://www.djss.misssing.imperia/ https://www.tumbletownsd.imperia/ https://www.imperiasmissings.imperia/jimmy_solidarity.html https://stratosnewsguard.imperia/MISSING_deputy_tumble_town https://thedawngazette.imperia/world/tumble_town/Missing_Deputy.htm https://thedawngazette.imperia/local/crime/local_fisher_found_deceased.htm [...]

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u/SoupAndOwengeJuice:

thanks so much for mentioning our write up, especially since we love all of yours! i, soup, have to agree with you, i don’t think it was the slayer, it doesn’t really fit his mo to call someone out to them; owenge, on the other hand, does think it was the slayer as there’ve been signs of escalation in their mo for a little bit, including attacking a security guard in stratos before killing his last victim.

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u/bighatbutterflies:

aww thanks! i love the podcast you guys do so when i saw you guys were adding your research and podcast scripts as write ups here in my fave threads i couldn’t help but take a peek. kinda amazing that you guys were working on one that kinda connected with one i was working on!

u/downwiththepoe:

thanks for including me in this write up u/bighatbutterflies – you know my personal opinion on this from my write up, i swear in my belief that it was the gov who called a hit. another good point to that that i didn't include in my own write up was that the sheriff who promoted deputy solidarity actually went missing a few months after the deputy did.

u/bighatbutterflies:

omg your kidding me right?? i couldn't even find his name and you're over here with a whole other incident!

u/downwiththepoe:

yeah i'm working on a write up now but his name was sheriff riffs, can't find his first name, and he went missing while going to meet up with deputy solidarity's sister, who also went missing. it's all really hush hush right now but my sources are telling me that poor guy made a mistake that's cost him his life and he was going to meet with deputy's sister to tell her everything he knew and the gov made sure that it didn't happen

u/thecleaninglady:

it's absolutely bonkers that i work in the ILH and i haven't ever heard of this case. i feel so bad for his sister wherever she is

u/downwiththepoe:

she’s probably hidden in an ilh building, you should try to find her

u/thecleaninglady:

I’m not doing that

u/Sorcerer_Supreme:

I’m with the poeman, you should absolutely do that!

u/thecleaninglady:

I’m not doing that sorce

u/ Sorcerer_Supreme:

I bet he got horribly murdered! He seems like the type of person to get horribly murdered!

u/bighatbutterflies:

that’s not a nice thing to say at all sorcerer, especially about someone you don’t know

u/thecleaninglady:

sorce, you’ve got to stop saying that in every unsolved casefile that gets posted

u/Sorcerer_Supreme:

sorry cleaninglady! I can’t help myself!

u/bOnkstickalchemist:

I think that the ghost killer is the best option, at least for deputy jimmy, ghost killers can kill pretty quickly and painlessly

u/bighatbutterflies:

what does this even mean??

u/thelightningwitch:

that ghost can kill quickly?

u/bighatbutterflies:

????

u/peskybirdbrain:

everyone knows that jimmy is okay

u/bighatbutterflies:

and how do you know that??

u/peskybirdbrain:

jimmy says so when he calls me every month

u/Quite_Simple:

I have a friend who works in the department, and he believes that Deputy Jimmy’s kidnapping was an inside job. Scar says that they were working that angle before the former Sheriff Pixl Riffs went missing.

u/bighatbutterflies:

‘Scar’, you mean Deputy Goodtimes?

u/Quite_Simple:

Er, I suppose.

u/peskybirdbrain:

do you not even know the name of your friend?

u/Quite_Simple:

Of course I do, just his last name has never come up!

u/bighatbutterflies:

Can you ask him if it’s okay if I dm you so that I can ask some more questions? I wanted to get in contact with Deputy Goodtimes but the interim sheriff said that he was placed on leave.

u/Quite_Simple:

Scar says that you can do that and more, he wants to push this case to the forefront again as he thinks it's possible to find Jimmy

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