The Hispaniola crew

Jim Hawkins

The son of Admiral Benbow's innkeeper who gets involved with treasure-hunting adventurers.

Badass Boast: Jim Hawkins, caught by the pirates and facing death, delivers one.
"Let the worst come to the worst, it's little I care. I've seen too many die since I fell in with you. But there's a thing or two I have to tell you," I said, and by this time I was quite excited; "and the first is this: here you are, in a bad way—ship lost, treasure lost, men lost, your whole business gone to wreck; and if you want to know who did it—it was I! I was in the apple barrel the night we sighted land, and I heard you, John, and you, Dick Johnson, and Hands, who is now at the bottom of the sea, and told every word you said before the hour was out. And as for the schooner, it was I who cut her cable, and it was I that killed the men you had aboard of her, and it was I who brought her where you'll never see her more, not one of you. The laugh's on my side; I've had the top of this business from the first; I no more fear you than I fear a fly."
The Cabin Boy: Jim serves as cabin boy on Captain Smollett's ship.
Catapult Nightmare: At the very end of the book, Jim Hawkins says that the worst dreams he ever has are when he "start[s] upright in bed with the sharp voice of Captain Flint [the parrot] still ringing in my ears."
Children Forced to Kill: Jim kills Israel Hands in self-defense, though it happened in the most involuntary way possible: Hands nails his shoulder with his knife, and Jim involuntarily pulls both triggers without aiming.
Coming of Age Story: Jim Hawkins starts as just an assistant innkeeper working for his parents, and learns to confront betrayal and violence in the quest for treasure. Ultimately, he decides that even the promise of more treasure would not entice him to revisit the adventure.
Deconstructed Trope: Kid Hero. Young Jim Hawkins has a roaring adventure, fighting pirates and claiming a fabulous treasure... and the experience of seeing so many men die (and killing some himself) leaves him so utterly traumatized that he has nightmares for some time afterward.
Face Death with Dignity: When Jim is captured by the pirates and is given the offer of joining them or else, he delivers a defiant Facing The Bullets Speech outlining how it was him the whole time that kept screwing up their plans, that the laugh's on his side and he no more fears them than he fears a fly, but he'll put in a word at court for them if they choose to spare him.
Hollywood Healing: Jim doesn't seem to suffer any long-term effects from being wounded and pinned to the mast by Israel Hands's dirk (which had previously been used to kill another pirate), or having to tear a bit of skin off of his shoulder to escape the pinning. It isn't even mentioned when Doctor Livesey sees him again.
Honor Before Reason: Jim keeps his promise not to escape with the doctor even though his life is in danger if he stays, to the point where even the doctor himself is ready to break his word because he can't bear the thought of young Jim being tortured to death. This is the turning point in Jim's Coming of Age Story.
Horrible Judge of Character: Even aside that Dressed to Plunder was considered normal for veteran sailors during novel's time instead of being a piracy symbol (which the novel is responsible for), Billy Bones specifically warns Jim to be wary of any "one-legged sea-faring man". On Jim's request, Squire Trelawney hires John Silver to the crew without checking his background, and everyone thinks he's an ordinary gentleman until it's too late.
Kid Hero: He's only a teenage in the cast full of adults, but he's a good-hearted protagonist and a recurring problem to pirate's plans.
Spanner in the Works: Jim does a good job of screwing up with the pirates' plans — starting with his taking the map and accidentally eavesdropping on Silver's mutiny plans.

Dr. David Livesey

A nobleman who is also a doctor and a civil officer.

Badass Bookworm: Doctor Livesey is also an ex-British Army soldier and law officer who is a good shot with a smoothbore and stares down the pirate Billy Bones, who had intimidated everyone else in the story up to that point.
Big Good: He's the magistrate of the area Jim lives in, giving him the authority he uses to help Jim in his troubles. He's also one of the biggest voices of reason in the book.
Deadpan Snarker: Livesey hates pirates and bombards Billy Bones with sarcastic insults. He still gives him the medical treatment.
Meaningful Name: Livesey is quite a fitting name for a doctor.
The Medic: Doctor Livesey spends significant time tending to injuries and diseases among the party, even treating the mutineers.
Ignored Expert: After treating Billy Jones's stroke, after he warned him against drinking rum, he makes it very clear that the next time he drinks he'll die. Billy asks Jim for another glass on the next day, which Jim reluctantly gives, then continues to consume whatever's left in the inn, getting weaker, until he dies.
Honor Before Reason: Dr. Livesey is determined to heal the ill, even if they are ruthless pirates.
Renaissance Man: Aside to being a professional doctor, he's also magistrate and Master Swordsman.
Threat Backfire: Billy Bones threatens him with a knife for giving him a piece of health advice. The doctor, without flinching, threatens him in return to take him to court and hang him. The captain sits down grumbling.

Squire John Trelawney

A rich landowner and Livesey's friend who sponsors the expedition.

Arbitrarily Large Bank Account: Trelawney is a mere country squire, but he is rich enough to buy outright a 200-ton schooner, outfit it for a voyage and hire a crew, all out of pocket and without the slightest hint that doing so has put any strain on his finances. On top of that, he paid to have the "Admiral Benbow" repaired after Pew’s raid.
Beware the Silly Ones: Squire Trelawney is a textbook Upper-Class Twit and a Horrible Judge of Character, but absolutely lethal with any firearm he can lay his hands on.
Horrible Judge of Character: Squire Trelawney unknowingly hires a bunch of pirates to sail his treasure-hunting vessel. He also mistakes Captain Smollett's plain speaking, sensible caution and firm-but-fair approach to discipline for "unmanly" character, until events prove that Smollett was right (or if anything under-cautious).
Improbable Aiming Skills: Squire Trelawney may be a bit of a stereotypical landed-gentry Englishman, but he's also a crack shot. At one point, the mutineers' gunner — his intended target — is roughly a hundred yards away, on the deck of the ship, stooping over a cannon muzzle. Trelawney himself is seated in an 18-foot "jolly boat," which is overloaded with four other men and a ton of supplies. And he's armed with a musket. Despite all this, only a Coincidental Dodge saves the intended target's life — and Trelawney still picks off one of the other villains.
Loose Lips: Trelawney is utterly incapable of keeping any sensitive information to himself. Despite the fact that Livesey explicitly warns him to keep his mouth shut about the map and the treasure, by the time the Hispaniola is ready to sail everybody in Bristol knows everything there is to know about the expedition. Some of the crew even know the latitude and longitude of the island. In Captain Smollett's words, even the parrot knows.
Manly Tears: Trelawney is not afraid to cry when his servant Tom Redruth is dying.
The Team Benefactor: Squire Trelawny finances the entire expedition.
Upper-Class Twit: Squire Trelawney to an extent, although he himself had followed the sea at one point and he does have some skills.

Captain Alexander Smollett

The captain of Hispaniola hired by Trelawney.

Good Is Not Nice: Captain Smollett delivers a blunt assessment of his displeasure over the crew, expecting to be dismissed. Jim dislikes him from the beginning, and Trelawney comments on finding his behaviour "downright un-English;" however they soon discover that he was quite right, and he leads the party's resistance for most of the story.
Jerkass Has a Point: Smollet is a stern, blunt man who is concerned with doing his duty, whether people like or not. Squire Trelawney finds his blunt honesty unbearable and irritant, calling him "intolerable humbug" who is "unmanly, unsailorly and downright un-English", but when Smollett's paranoia regarding the sailors plotting a mutiny turns out to be completely right, Trelawney admits Smollet was right (and he himself had been an ass).
Properly Paranoid: Captain Smollet mistrusts the crew from the very beginning, insisting on precautions that highly annoy Squire Trelawney. He turns out to be completely on the mark.

The Walrus pirates

Captain Flint

The captain of the pirates who've left all his loot on an island and wrote instructions on a map before dying and it gets into Billy Bones, his first mate's hands. The rest of his crew decide to take the treasure for themselves.

Badass Crew: The crew of the Walrus prior to the events of the novel. With Flint as captain, Billy Bones as first mate, Long John Silver as quartermaster, and seamen such as Israel Hands, Ben Gunn, and Pew, they were able to amass such a huge hoard of treasure.
The Dreaded: Flint was one of the most notorious pirates of all time. Just hearing that Jim's family has a problem somehow related to him instantly turns the entire neighbourhood into Apathetic Citizens, though on Jim's mother's pleading they give them a gun, a horse and contact Livesey. Billy Bones, his first mate, still has nightmares about him. And at a point in the novel where it appears that he might be Not Quite Dead, all of his former crew are overcome with terror at the prospect of encountering him again.
The Drunken Sailor: Implied. Silver claims that Flint "died o' rum at Savannah" — he drank himself to death.
Leave No Witnesses: Captain Flint killed the sailors who helped him bury the treasure. Considering that there were six of them, nobody has any idea how he managed it.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: In a flashback, Captain Flint goes ashore with six crew members (all of them hardened pirates) to bury his treasure; later he comes back on board alone, having singlehandedly killed them all.
Posthumous Character: Captain Flint is long dead before the start of the story, but his Pirate Booty drives the plot.

Billy Bones

The so-called "Captain" who stays in the Admiral Benbow inn in the beginning of the story. He's revealed to be the first mate of the notorious pirate Captain Flint, and is trying to hide his Treasure Map away from his crew.

Authority in Name Only: He's Captain Flint's first mate and by the start of the novel technically the leader of the Walrus pirates. However, by then every other pirate was already in Blind Pew's or Long John Silver's teams and Billy gets marked for death.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: After Black Dog comes to the inn, behind the locked door Jim can only hear some sword fighting. Next, a wounded Black Dog runs away.
Dead Man Walking: The narration spoils that he meets untimely death mostly because of the own paranoia in the first chapter. He suddenly dies from a stroke later.
The Drunken Sailor: He's a big fan of drinking rum despite his degrading health and Dr. Livesey's warnings on the matter, which eventually leads to his death.
I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin: In case he get gets marked with the Black Spot and dies, he asks Jim to deliver the Treasure Map to Livesey and deal with the pirates in any way he'd see fit.
In Vino Veritas: During his stay at Admiral Benbow he sometimes sings sea songs or tells gruesome stories from his sea experiences to other customers' joy, though everyone thought he's just a badass sailor and not a pirate.
Madness Mantra: He frequently sings the same song over and over. Which turns out to be describing himself.
Billy Bones: Fifteen man on the dead man's chest— Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Plot-Triggering Death: As soon as he dies, Jim becomes the owner of Flint's map and Blind Pew with other pirates approach the inn looking for it. The story's action starts from there.
Properly Paranoid: He pays Jim extra to watch for any "seafaring man with one leg," who turns out to be Long John Silver. While Silver never came after him, some of his co-pirates did.
The Quiet One: After his introduction he's described as not very talkative; at the Admiral Benbow he mostly either left to look at the sea or drank.
Retired Monster: He was the The Dragon to the notorious Captain Flint, but by the time of the novel he's already quit pirating. He only wants to be let alone at the "Admiral Benbow" Inn to drink, sing, and enjoy his own "fair" share of the ill-gotten gains. His former crew, excepting Pew, are still terrified of him though.
Tattooed Crook: He has a lot of pirate tattoos on himself, including one of his own name.
Withholding Their Name: He only asks Jim and his father to call him "captain." Technically, he is the current captain of the Walrus pirates. His name is revealed when Blind Pew calls him out.

Black Dog

One of Flint's pirates. He finds Billy Bones at the inn and tries to get information out of him, but Billy almost kills him in defense.

Faux Affably Evil: He talks politely to Jim and Billy, but doesn't hide his threatening demeanor, and gets hostile the moment he gets a response he doesn't like. Not to mention his idea of a "surprise welcome" is to wait behind the door with a knife in hand.
Starter Villain: The first pirate introduced looking for the treasure and threatening Billy Bones, who chases him away.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Black Dog's fate after being chased out of Silver's inn is never revealed.

Blind Pew

A blind begger who is also a high-ranking pirate. He comes to the inn to inform Billy Bones that he's until 10 to give him the map.

Black Spot: He delivers the Black Spot to Billy Bones in person, effectively meaning Billy is no longer recognized as the leader and is Marked to Die. Ironically, Billy Bones dies from a stroke almost the moment he leaves anyway.
Evil Cripple: Pew is entirely blind, but still enough of an Ax-Crazy bastard that the remainder of Flint's crew still lives in fear of him, with only Silver and (possibly) Billy Bones being able to stand up to him.
Faux Affably Evil: He introduces himself to Jim as a polite poor man an a war veteran. When he asks Jim to take him to Billy and he refused, Pew threaten to break Jim's hand right there and never put up the facade again.
Handicapped Badass: Pew is fully blind, yet most of the survivors of Flint's crew fear him only slightly less than Billy Bones or Silver.
Laser-Guided Karma: Pew leads the men to find the treasure map in the Admiral Benbow, ordering the men to burn the place down later. He gets so angry that all the other pirates run away while he screams at them — at which point a soldier patrol arrives on horse, accidentally running over Pew.
Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: After Pew belittles and assaults own pirates for not finding the map, once authorities approach the inn, they all just ditch him alone, which proves to be to his death.
Named After the Injury: Blind Pew is a vicious, deadly, and sinister blind beggar who served as a member of Flint's crew.
No Full Name Given: Unlike most of the other characters, Pew isn't given a first name in the book, but in 1892 Stevenson co-wrote a collection called Three Plays, and one of those, "Admiral Guinea", is a Spin-Off starring Pew as the main antagonist, and his first name given there is David. However, the canonicity of whether this is supposed to apply to the novel version of the character is unclear, since "Admiral Guinea" seems to be in its own timeline of sorts, rather than being part of the book's canon.
Obfuscating Disability: Pew is blind, but he is also a lot more capable than he initially seems. There's a reason why nearly all the other pirates are afraid of him.
Villainous Breakdown: Once he realizes that Jim has escaped with the map and the authorities are on their way, he starts yelling at own pirates' cowardice, then beats with his stick one of them, who'd suggested to just take the valuables they've found.

Long John Silver

The tavern owner who Trelawney hires to his ship as a cook. Unfortunately for him and the rest of Hispaniola crew, he's also the pirate leader.

Affably Evil: Long John is a lying, thieving, murdering scumbag pirate... but he's also lovable and charismatic. And, despite everything, his affection and respect for Jim are completely genuine.
Badass Boast:
- Silver sways one of the honest sailors into joining the rebellion with one.
  Silver: There was some that was feared of Pew, and some that was feared of Flint; but Flint his own self was feared of me. Feared he was, and proud.
- Silver is so badass he even gets boasts by proxy.
  Israel Hands: A lion's nothing alongside of Long John! I seen him grapple four and knock their heads together—him unarmed.
Big Bad: He's in command of the Captain Flint's remaining pirate crew after his and Pew's deaths and also the leader of Hispaniola mutineers, whom he leads to get to the Flint's treasure before the heroes get to it.
Big Bad Friend: He acts as both the Parental Substitute and the Mentor Archetype to the young Jim Hawkins. This continues even after he starts killing Hispaniola's crewmembers who refuse to join his pirate team.
Black Spot: Long John Silver is black-spotted twice: once "off-screen" when the ship arrives at the island and the pirates are eager for action at once, and later when they decide they want a new captain. The actual Spot ends up in Jim Hawkins's possession as a keepsake.
The Cassandra: A villainous example. Early on, a frustrated Silver delivers a rant to Israel hands and Dick, deriding the kind of short-sighted greed that has gotten many other pirates (Flint and Pew, for instance) killed or ruined. He's proven right across the story as the mutineers ruin the entire plan due to their own impatience to get at the treasure.
Catchphrase: Silver had quite a few, including "You may lay to that!" ("You may depend on that"), "By the Powers"/"By the living thunder", and "Shiver my timbers!"
Didn't Think This Through: His team mostly consists of Hispaniola mutineers and not his pirates. Despite being the most notorious pirate alive, his men are not loyal to him, follow own greed instead of his plans, and then blame him for failures. He also grows personally attached to Jim without considering what the others think of him. Silver has to pull an Enemy Mine when it becomes apparent he'll get the Black Spot and be killed for being a pain to work with.
The Dreaded:
- Captain Flint, who is one of the most fearsome pirates ever, never really trusted Silver and thought he's too ambitious for his own good, which after Flint's death turns out to be true.
- The paranoid Billy Bones pays Jim extra to watch out for any man without a leg near the inn. After a while Jim has developed an impression he has to be some kind of Humanoid Abomination before even meeting him.
- Silver just speaking up is enough to send fear to his crew.
Enemy Mine: Long John spells this out to Jim when Jim's captured by the pirates. Silver knows that Jim is the one who knows where the ship is, and torturing it out of him will satisfy his mutinous crew. However he also knows that the Captain's party ceding the stockade and stores and staying out of their way surely means that they know something he does not and have a plan, while at this point the other pirates are one disappointment from killing Silver too. If they find the treasure then he can ransom Jim, but if things do go bad Jim owes him for his protection and can vouch for him with his friends.
Even Evil Has Standards: Pirate, mutineer and murderer Long John Silver may be, but he bends over backwards, even risking the Black Spot, to keep Jim Hawkins alive at all costs. Him sparing Jim makes his The Dreaded status disappear from mutineers' eyes, putting him in danger.
Evil Cripple: Silver is famously one-legged, but doesn't let that prevent him from organizing mutinies and committing murders.
Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: He's repeatedly described as plain and clean, and his appearance strikes Jim as completely trustworthy. Then he starts murdering anyone who's a threat to his plan.
Handicapped Badass: Long John Silver killed an honest crewman who refused to join the pirates, by hurling his crutch at him, thus breaking his spine, and then hopping one-legged to him and slitting his throat.
Heel–Face Revolving Door: Silver is an opportunist who will jump to any side if it seems to be the winning one.
In-Series Nickname: Long John Silver is often called "Barbecue" by his old shipmates.
Karma Houdini: For saving Jim, Trelawney and the others agree to bring Silver back to England with them, instead of abandoning him on the island, and don't seem to be too upset when Silver escapes with a few hundred pounds of the treasure (Jim notes that he hopes Silver lives a happy life, as he's not likely to have a happy afterlife).
Long Game: Silver's ultimate plan is to save up enough money from his pirate voyages until he can retire, sell his inn and live as a rich gentleman for the remainder of his life. It's implied that all his time at sea under Flint and England was aimed towards this goal and that he's already considerably rich.
Lost at Sea: Fear of this fate is why Silver does his best to keep the pirates in hand until the treasure's on board and the ship is back into the familiar trade routes:
Silver: We can steer a course, but who's to set one? That's what all you gentlemen split on, first and last. If I had my way, I'd have Cap'n Smollett work us back into the trades at least; then we'd have no blessed miscalculations and a spoonful of water a day.
Lovable Traitor: Long John Silver is a charismatic and likeable figure, who spends the entire book playing Xanatos Speed Chess with both the mutineers and the loyalists to ensure that he comes away from the island with as large a cut of the money as he can manage.
The Mole: He joins the Hispaniola expedition for Flint's treasure as a cook, but it turns out he's a part of Flint's pirate crew and after convincing a few to join kills everyone on board who didn't.
My Way or the Highway: During an argument with his crew, Long John Silver angrily says to them that they have two options: obeying his orders or a duel to the death.
"Did any of you gentlemen want to have it out with me?" roared Silver, bending far forward from his position on the keg, with his pipe still glowing in his right hand. "Put a name on what you're at; you ain't dumb, I reckon. Him that wants shall get it. Have I lived this many years, and a son of a rum puncheon cock his hat athwart my hawse at the latter end of it? You know the way; you're all gentlemen o' fortune, by your account. Well, I'm ready. Take a cutlass, him that dares, and I'll see the colour of his inside, crutch and all, before that pipe's empty."
Not a man stirred; not a man answered.
"That's your sort, is it?" he added, returning his pipe to his mouth. "Well, you're a gay lot to look at, anyway. Not much worth to fight, you ain't. P'r'aps you can understand King George's English. I'm cap'n here by 'lection. I'm cap'n here because I'm the best man by a long sea-mile. You won't fight, as gentlemen o’ fortune should; then, by thunder, you'll obey, and you may lay to it!
Not So Above It All: Silver frequently boasts about how much better he is than the other pirates, ranging from being the only man that Captain Flint feared to not being as drunk or incompetent as they are. However throughout the story he is shown to be blind-drunk on numerous occasions, and to be in such mortal terror of Flint that he gets shaken up just by talking about him.
One Last Job: Silver is already pretty rich by the time he's on board the Hispaniola. Joining the crew in the hunt for Flint's treasure is going to be the last act of genuine piracy he does before he retires for good.
Pirate Parrot: The Trope Maker. Silver is accompanied by a female parrot that typically sits on his shoulder.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Silver delivers one to his crew when they try to depose him.
Long John Silver: Why, I give you my word, I'm sick to speak to you. You've neither sense nor memory, and I leave it to fancy where your mothers was that let you come to sea. Sea! Gentlemen o' fortune! I reckon tailors is your trade.
- He gives one to both Dick and Israel Hands in Chapter 11, deriding the short-sighted, hedonistic lifestyle of other pirates who ended up destitute or worse:
  "I seen a thing or two at sea, I have. If you would on'y lay your course, and a p'int to windward, you would ride in carriages, you would. But not you! I know you. You'll have your mouthful of rum to-morrow, and go hang."
Retired Monster: Flint, the captain who murdered a good chunk of his own crew to hide the treasure's location, was afraid of Silver. Billy Bones is also afraid of Silver. Silver has been peacefully running an inn and living happily with his wife for some years when the story begins. He comes out of the retirement when he hears about the expedition, but he continues this after making off with a part of the treasure in the end.
Surrounded by Idiots: Silver actually has a rather simple plan: Let Captain Smollett get the ship to the island, let Trelawney and Livesey find and dig up the treasure, and then kill them on the way back to England and take the treasure. Unfortunately the rest of the pirates can't figure out why they shouldn't kill the honest crew now, and by the time they reach the island it's all Silver can do to stop them from breaking out into open mutiny before they get any clue as to where the treasure is hidden.
Trojan Prisoner: Long John Silver pulls this with Jim, who'd been genuinely captured by Silver and the other pirates earlier. Silver's practical reason for keeping Jim alive is that he's his best chance to escape the gallows if things go south, as Silver suspects they might, and an extra gun hand against the pirates who'll inevitably turn on them once that happens. However, it's never entirely clear whether Silver would have kept his word to keep Jim alive if things had gone according to plan...
Walking Spoiler: The cook Smollett hires turns out to be the current leader of the pirates, which is his bigger defining trait than being a ship cook and Jim's friend. Many book adaptations don't even bother hiding that he's a villain.
We Named the Monkey "Jack": Captain Silver has a parrot named Cap'n Flint, named after his former, late captain.

Israel Hands

A pirate gunner.

Historical Domain Character: Israel Hands was a real-life pirate, and a member of Blackbeard's crew. Supposedly he died in the 1720s, but he would only have been in his mid-20s at the time. Presumably in-story, he actually survived and went on to join Flint's crew (though, alternatively, it may simply be a case of Named After Somebody Famous).
Loophole Abuse: During his confrontation with Israel Hands, Jim manages to prime his two pistols while Hands is still too far away to stab him with his dirk, and tells Hands in no uncertain terms that he'll shoot if Hands comes any closer. Hands responds by throwing his dirk at Jim.

Ben Gunn

A crazy man stranded on the island for years. He reveals himself to be a part of the Flint's crew when they've buried the treasure and he was left alone.

The Aloner: Ben Gunn, who was marooned on the island by his mates after a failed search for the treasure.
Beware the Silly Ones: Ben Gunn may be addled and harmless-seeming, but he sailed with the most evil-minded band of brigands that ever sailed the seas, and to prove his loyalty to the doctor he sneaks into the pirates' camp and bludgeons one of them to death in their sleep without being detected.
Go Mad from the Isolation: He's been on the Deserted Island since Flint's days and with nobody else there for years, his sanity took a major toll.
Karma Houdini: Ben Gunn's crimes as a pirate are pardoned after he saves the day by hiding the treasure away. Nobody seems particularly bothered that he was a part of one of the most feared pirate crews that ever sailed, and he gets a larger share of the treasure than Silver did (which he manages to blow in three weeks, at which point he is given a pension). Presumably, the characters and readers consider his time marooned on the island punishment enough (not to mention it mellowed him out considerably).
Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Maroon a pirate on a small island with treasure hidden on it, give him reason to make your life difficult if you try and come back for it, and leave him with nothing else to do? He's going to find as much of it as possible, dig it up, and move it.
Mundane Luxury: Ben Gunn swears Undying Loyalty to Dr. Livesey in exchange for a palm-sized piece of cheese (parmesan, to be precise), something he has craved for years.
Pre-Insanity Reveal: Ben Gunn was once a part of Captain Flint's crew, though unliked by his shipmates. He knows the location of Flint's treasure, but no one believes him. Marooned on a deserted island, he becomes more than a little addled, talks in the third person and has an obsessive craving for cheese.
Robinsonade: Ben Gunn has been marooned on the island.
Spanner in the Works: Ben Gunn's presence in the island completely derails Silver's plans in various ways:
- His coracle allows Jim to steal back the Hispaniola.
- He kills one of Silver's men while they sleep, prompting a costly assault on the stockade.
- He provides invaluable aid to the loyalists.
- He has long since found and moved the treasure.

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