User blog comment:B214/General discussion/@comment-73.49.228.11-20180408165031/@comment-24595619-20180409200735

No, since both those kinds of awakenings is different.

A Soul Awakening means a drastic change in their soul after experiencing a great change in their own ideals and belief; such as Kuraudo learning about actual swordsmanship and abandoning his original berserker style, which caused his device to match his current in sword style.

Becoming a Desperado means breaking through their chain of fate meaning also breaking the fixed magic power that they have at birth resulting in gaining a boost in their magical powers and becoming someone outside of the world's fate.