In the epic, climactic, ninth episode of the sixth season of Game of Thrones, Daenerys Targaryen became what she was born to be: a terrible tyrant. In the show’s most recent episode, in between the moments of the epic Battle of Winterfell, Daenerys quickly won the war in Meereen. She destroyed the slavers’ fleets, dealt with the leaders of the Masters of Yunkai and Astapor, and allied with the ironborn. And in doing so, she has truly embraced the role she’ll have in Westeros: conqueror.

Daenerys Is All The Targaryens In One

Here’s how the Siege of Meereen went down: The Masters attacked. Daenerys got back from her unplanned takeover of the Dothraki. Daenerys treated Tyrion badly before accepting his explanation of the events leading up to the siege. Then Daenerys smoked all her enemies, capriciously killed two of them at Grey Worm’s whim, and called the battle won. It all works out pretty well for Daenerys Targaryen, but for everyone else, she’s starting to show her true colors.

It’s not to say that Daenerys is wrong. She is decidedly not wrong to kill the Masters, who are explicitly her enemies. Nor is she wrong to treat Tyrion badly, berate him a little bit, and then accept his explanation. But here’s the trouble: Daenerys isn’t consistent. Sometimes she treats her enemies well; she deals with them fairly and sticks to her agreements. Other times, she crucifies them by the hundreds, or burns them all in their tents. Sometimes, she listens to the dissenting viewpoints of her advisors, like with Tyrion. Other times, she ignores them or punishes them—see Jorah Mormont.

Above all else, Daenerys is capricious. And in that respect, she’s like many of her predecessors. She’s not mad like her father, not yet. Right now, she’s more like Aegon V, “Egg,” who wished he had dragons so that he could use them to enforce his progressive social views through violence. Daenerys does have dragons, and she does just that. She is ultimately a force for and backed by violence. Is it hard to imagine her having Tyrion killed on the spot for not bargaining as she happened to like it? Or killing all three of those masters, or just one, or none at all, based on her whim at the moment?

Daenerys has become a tyrant. She’s a goodhearted one: Like Aegon V or Baelor the Blessed, she wants what’s best for her people. But her idea of what’s best is whatever happens to strike her at the moment. And her idea of implementing her hopes and dreams is very simple: through fire and blood. It will only get worse when she finally gets to Westeros.