User blog comment:Ultimate-Amaretsu/Awakening!/@comment-26058050-20170219101126

Awakening was first shown with Zoan types, with the Impel Down jailer beasts, with Crocodile basically describing them as incredibly tough and resilient, and can quickly recover from injuries, hence why the jailor beasts keep coming back to fight.

Paramecia have the widest variety of powers (since they are practically everything not animal or elemental related). The only Awaken Paramecia ones that we have seen is Doffy's, who's power is basically, what i like to call, a create and control power (others include Magellan, Mr. 3, etc), where they can create something like strings. So this one makes sense where they can turn the environment into that said object. However there are more types of paramecia out there (such as defensive, offensive, and other forms of manipulation) and I reckon that Oda has probably got a trick up his sleeve for these kinds as well, what they are I don't know yet, but if someone who has a DF that can create strings is possible, then so is anything else.

Logia, my theory is that they are automatically awakened fruits, which is what makes them more powerful than all the others, and that awakening power is their ability to turn into the element itself.