Nickname: Peaches

Street Names: Shorty Rock, Shorty, Rocky, Lil Rock

Birthday: April 1, 1992

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Age in A Storm Called Ronin: 15

Heritage: Japanese-Chinese

Hometown: Boston Chinatown

Family: The Onigahara family

Siblings: Hiroshi Onigahara, Jade Onigahara, Vincent Onigahara

Guardians: Hitomi, Yoshihatsu, and Kenji Onigahara

Crew: Street Ratz

Fighting Style: Aggressive, acrobatic, relentless, and heavy-hitting

Book: A Storm Called Ronin

Ronin Onigahara has never known how to exist quietly.

Born on April Fool’s Day and raised in the heart of Boston’s Chinatown, Ronin is the kind of girl people notice before she even opens her mouth. She is loud, sharp, funny, reckless, loyal to the bone, and impossible to ignore. Around school and on the streets, she is known as Shorty Rock, a small but terrifying fighter with a reputation for swinging first and asking questions fucking never.

That name belongs only to the people who know the girl beneath the rage. Her twin brother Hiroshi. Her adopted siblings, Jade and Vincent. Her older siblings turned guardians, Hitomi, Yoshi, and Kenji, who raised her after tragedy shattered their family. To them, Ronin is not just a problem child, a fighter, or a girl with a record. She is their heart. Their headache. Their baby.

Ronin lives with bipolar disorder, though for years, everyone around her thought her extreme emotions were just part of who she was: too angry, too intense, too reckless, too much. In A Storm Called Ronin, she is learning that her illness does not make her broken, dangerous, or unworthy of love. It is part of her life, but it is not all of her.

Her story is about survival, family, mental health, loyalty, and learning how to live with the storm inside her without letting it destroy everything she loves.

She is not easy. She is not soft. She is not safe. But she is loved. And she is trying.