Not sure if I am understanding what you are saying but what I hope amethyst does when I set it to connect via tor / orbot is that if orbot is switched off or unable to connect to the onion network for whatever reason, then I want amethyst to not connect to anything anywhere - I want to see a blank screen in amethyst in that case which will let me know that something is wrong with my connection.

IOW if I say connect via tor / orbot, then don't connect (of fail back) in the case of tor / orbot not being connected.

otherwise i will never know if I am actually reading and posting via Tor or not unless i am constantly checking whether orbot is connected.