Perhaps I misinterpreted the original post about Dark Unawakened Lucifer where it said "Lucifer now has an Alternate Awakening!" and "The alternative Max Awakening can be obtained by acquiring 6 Lord Of Light Awakening Shards and 6 Dark Unmaker Awakening Shards.".
I reasoned that since the awakening was referred to as 'alternate/alternative' -which implies an either/or situation- that it was the same character with 2 possible awakenings rather than a completely different variant character with its own unique awakening. In which case should have read "Introducing a new variant of Lucifer!" or "The Max Awakening of this variant character can be...".

Maybe the Devs could provide some clarification on this?