Thane returned to his artist's workshop on the edge of town, intent on revising his work with the power to bring it to life through him. Scrolling through the options, he realized there was an option to copy the 'controlled by' trait, allowing him to manipulate other portraits by extending himself into them. Taking a picture of one of his nude sculptures of a muscled elven male, he copied over his control, and...
Thane's sense expanded into the husk of marble, proprioception expanding to the borders of the stone. The sense beyond was vague and dreamlike blurs, the sight and sound of a ghostly soul-blob claiming a domain but not a body. It was heavy, turgid, something that while not quite motionless seemed to grind and gel up at the gentle attempts of motion from someone very inexperienced at the art of animate rocks. That could be fixed, of course.
With his original body, Thane manipulated the materials of marble to that of flesh, letting divine power do all manner of autocorrection to make Thane's mental image manifest. His tall stone body flexed as light greys dappled and darkened to a faintly bronzed olive. Short gold curly hair framed emerald-shining eyes, though the dustings on the body were fairly light. And that cock and balls, huge for one thing...
"So this," Thane spoke with his second body, stepping down from the plinth to stretch toes and gaze ominously down at the first body (a strange sense of staring oneself in the eyes twice over and feeling the cool air) "this could be interesting."
Both bodies immediately turned to observe various other arts scattered about the workshop. Landscape paintings, fantastical beasts, portraits, a veritable smorgasbord of not-quite-perfect inanimate things to animate. Piloting two bodies at once was already a big new experience to explore, but...Thane decided not to think too hard about his body image when he had the ability to make a better one on the fly. Why not...become one with this first artwork-made-manifest, not just two alongside each other? He could swap out what vessel he was inhabiting later, anyway.
Passing the Photovac to his second body, Thane's old body took off his clothes and turned his back to his new self, being embraced from behind to see two portraits next to each other given a 'combine and store' option, and...he fell backward into himself, a soft ripple of selfhood as he unified, a pleasurable sensation of being invested into a new, stronger body in full. It might have been a bit of a loss, come to think of it, but one reversible at a moment's whim. Becoming a bit sexier wasn't exactly a curse. Speaking of losses, not having other hands to hold this Photovac while feeling oneself up...change of plans.
Thane decided to get another body suited for art. Taking aim at a portrait painted of a lithe goblin man painting the viewer, Thane again copied his 'controlled by' trait into the image. A brief sensation of flatness and the painting itself was replaced by the painting-frame expanding into a magical room by the benevolence of divine interpretation. As space magically expanded, the goblin painter set down his paintbrush, adjusted his beret to keep his scraggly dark red hair in line, and with a hefting of his smock grabbed the edge and jumped right out, raising his arms at some jokey photo finish. The greenish underling body gently accepted the Photovac from the elven center (a comical exchange of someone tall kneeling down slightly to hand it to the short), allowing Thane to really explore his body while another looked on.
Reclining on a section of the floor cleared for modeling, he got the benefits of both an erotic view and being the masturbator in question. As his elven body massaged his pecs, his cock gradually expanded with the start of a boner. Various 'historical sample' photographs ended up being taken by the goblin painter using the Photovac, recording these events for future reference alongside piles of fairytale history. No lost backups here, thanks. Bodily exploration devolved into full masturbation, hands soon pumping away at a monstrous erection and feeling up the balls. The painter deigned to set the Photovac on a nearby easel and start touching himself, finding what probably qualified as a micropenis even to goblins was both very sensitive and very responsive. Soon the painter body came and that set off the elven body's orgasm as well, firing off in much longer spurts. An idea coming to head, the painter body thumbed through the Photovac and altered various sexual endurance stats to allow them to keep going at it much longer for later. Still, double the post-nut clarity reminded Thane of his next goal, bringing art to life.
And there was a lot of art to make real right around him.