Prolly come up already but feels like Luffy’s going through a zoan awakening of sorts. Been said before that zoans lose their rationality when they awaken iirc and this kinda feels like that. So maybe what we’ve known as Zoan awakening till now isn’t truly awakening.
or maybe there is a true awakening or even awakening lv.2
I’m not sure how significant these clouds around the characters' necks are.
However, when the Five Elders and Lucci were in their awakened forms, these clouds were black.
We also saw Yamato with them, but in her case, they were white.
As of this chapter, the cloud around Luffy is still white.
Who knows—perhaps the color itself holds some significance.

