Sorry for the late responce anon!
I never picked up on her protectiveness, but wow that’s a really good point!
And to add onto your point that Wendy probably likes having a younger girl to talk with, I saw someone point out in the tags that that Wendy comes from a family of all boys. To expand on that and be more specific, Wendy has been living in a family without a mom for a while. If I were to guess her youngest brother’s age, and if we were to assume her mom left/died (probably died) not long after her youngest brother was born, it’s likely that Wendy went through her preteen years without a mother in her life, so it’s probably really meaningful to her to be able to be that older girl role model for someone else who also doesn’t have their mom around (even if it is just a temporary separation)



