well it happens, but the "roof" radical can be added. It may throw the whole balance out of wack, but that tatoo here is a 活字 so its a 書道　blasphemy anyway.

Many people do not realize that ton of characters are being written differently by hand than their printed version appearance. I won't even mention artistic values.

Indeed...

運

and

連

are very different...but at least it is kind of fixable.

ya but it will ruin the balance

in case anyone else, god forbid, is thinking of drilling 活字 in their skin, i am pasting below my calligraphy in 楷書 znaku 運.