Nickname: Chuchi

Street Names: La Boca, Mouth, Jay Baby, Jay, Jadee

Birthday: August 18, 1991

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Age in A Storm Called Ronin: 16

Heritage: Mexican

Hometown: Boston Chinatown

Family: The Onigahara family

Siblings: Ronin Onigahara, Hiroshi Onigahara, Vincent Onigahara

Guardians: Hitomi, Yoshihatsu, and Kenji Onigahara

Crew: Street Ratz

Fighting Style: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, counter-based grappling

Book: Uncarved Jade

Jade Onigahara doesn’t enter a room quietly. She owns it.

Loud, gorgeous, funny, dramatic, and allergic to letting anybody have the last word, Jade is the mouth of the Onigahara family in every possible sense. Around Boston Chinatown and Harborview High, she is known as La Boca, the girl with gold hoops, sharp nails, sharper comebacks, and enough attitude to turn a hallway into a crime scene without throwing a single punch.

But don’t get it twisted. Jade can throw hands too.

Adopted into the Onigahara family, Jade grew up loved, protected, and claimed by people who never treated her like an outsider. Hitomi, Yoshi, and Kenji raised her as one of their own. Ronin, Hiroshi, and Vincent became her siblings in every way that mattered: fighting, laughing, sharing cramped bedrooms, stealing snacks, screaming across the apartment, and loving each other with the kind of loyalty most people only pretend to understand.

To the world, Jade is loud. To her family, she is Chuchi.

That name belongs only to the people who know the girl underneath the lip gloss and the mouth. Jade is fiercely protective, deeply emotional, and far more observant than people give her credit for. She hides her fears behind sarcasm, her hurt behind jokes, and her softness behind a personality big enough to fill every empty room she was ever left in.

Her story is about belonging, chosen family, identity, loyalty, and learning that love does not have to be earned by becoming easier, quieter, prettier, tougher, or more useful to everyone else. Jade loves hard. She talks louder. She protects with her whole chest. And when somebody threatens her family, La Boca stops being funny real quick.