>>55556042>Emily sectionShe wants power cause to her, power is the ultimate freedom, to live as you please and unable to be pinned under the thumb of someone else. Unable to be threatened, fenced in or suppressed. Power is Freedom and Freedom to live as she pleases is all she aims for apart from simply that feeling of self improvement. That power also means she can impose her will on the world more and in her case that means stomping on groups like Team Plasma, or specific to her own story, the Collective because they trample over their own fellow human beings AND over Pokemon for what they want and for delusions of tyrannical control over the world and it's people.
She simply wants other people to be strong enough to defend their own freedoms, and to at least be able to hold the line until someone more capable can finally get there to save them simply because "Defenders" can't be everywhere at once and sometimes someone has to become that hero they need. She also just wants to be able to preserve her own freedom by never being actually threatened by someone or something in the world around her and to simply pioneer the way forward into what kind of heights exist beyond the mountain peak that is the Pokemon League-- namely what is out in the space beyond the world in this mountain metaphor. "The sky is the limit in itself as a phrase is small-thinking and I want to know what is out there BEYOND that sky and to know where I stand on the grander stage that no doubt exists out there."
She also just finds battling, both formal and unhinged deathmatches to be FUN while also feeling an almost indescribable satisfaction whenever she makes leaps in progress of her abilities or manages to invent a move that no one else has / manages to teach one of her Pokemon a move they otherwise normally don't learn.