You were a deity of misfortune, moreso spread as karma--you yourself weren't exactly the misfortune, you only caused it once you believed one was worthy. That rarely changed either, no matter how much word was spread. Which, with those rumors, you have met unpleasant people; but you knew you would've met those anyway.
One of them, for example, would be one by the name of Nightmare. Yes, you two had the entire "spread misfortune across the multiverse", though entirely different reasons for doing so, therefore you had declined him. What you hadn't expected, however, is when you sensed that same god awful increasing amount of Negativity. Of course, you had to sense it involuntarily, you sensed Negativity all the time to test who was worthy of punishment.. Yet this was just unbearable. Sudden, too. Sudden enough to make you curious and approach the source... That being none other than Nightmare. It seems he had noticed you as well. And, just like you, he was clearly annoyed. Didn't hide it in the slightest... He looked as if he avoided acknowledging you in it's entirety, though that had no say between whether or not he'd eventually address your presence—or if you'd address his.