Preload Badges on Discourse in plugin init

My question is related to my answer on loading badges. When a plugin for discourse loads, how can I get the badges for that user during the init method of the plugin?

e.g.

export default {
  name: "my_plugin",
  initialize: function(container, application) {
    Discourse.ShowAds = true;
    var currentUser = Discourse.User.current();
    if (currentUser) {
       //Get badges here or have badges already.
    }
  }
};

Something like this will not work because the promise will return the badges after the view is loaded.

export default {
  name: "my_plugin",
  initialize: function(container, application) {
    var currentUser = Discourse.User.current();
    if (currentUser) {
      Discourse.UserBadge.findByUsername(Discourse.User.current().username).then(function(result) {
      result.forEach(function(entry) {
          if (entry.badge.name == Discourse.SiteSettings.adsense_through_badge){
            console.log(entry.badge.name);
          }
        }
       );
      });
    }
  }
};

I'm thinking I need to extend a controller or some other functionality to get the badges prior to the plugin loading so it could be retrieved like trust_level although I'm not sure where I would extend it.

var currentUser = Discourse.User.current();
currentUser.get('trust_level')