I'm actually not sure what she's like pre-Awakening because it's so hard not to imagine her as a little nightmare that I'm not sure what I'm giving away and taking away yet, haha.

But I'm down for this! I don't think she'd need protecting (people usually need to be saved from her), but I could easily see them giving each other a hard time while Gladion was still in primary school (I'm guessing he's only two grades above her?) or living near each other...in which case, yeah, she'd definitely bother him just because proximity. I'd be down for anything.