User blog comment:The Awesome X!/Why don't the monsters use mortal weapons?/@comment-3146930-20130717192848

It is actually a pretty easy question to answer. First you have to look at the two types of monsters that Kronos has in his army. On the one hand you have more bestial monsters like Hellhounds, the flying pig, and the drakon. These monsters act more like animals and wouldn't be able to hold a weapon if they tried. Then you have hybrid monsters like the Minotaur, who is just a little too big to hold a gun in his hands, even a big one. Most other monsters are this way as well, either not have the ability or intelligence to operate any kind of weapon effectively. Some might accidently just end up shooting their own guys.

You also have to looks at some of the monsters in the series. Most are proud of what they can do and see themselves as undefeatable, which they kind of are as they will always reform eventually. Dr. Thorn for example was actually really close to defeating the group until Mr. D helped. But until that moment, he wanted demigods to fear him and become more important in the army. If he used a gun or something, that would backfire which brings me to my next point.

The relationship between monsters and humans is almost non-existent. Monsters don't care at all about humans and see humans as beneath them. Almost any monster could kill a human with little to no effort. They see everything about them as weak, including their weapons. If a monster had to rely on human weapons to get the job done, how does that make them look? It would make them look weak because they couldn't kill a demigod using their own skills. They had to use the weapons of a weak species.

Lastly, the monsters of Greek mythology are pretty much time locked the same way demigods are. They both fight in the ancient ways because that is how they started. Artemis and Apollo are the gods of archery, not gun shooting. The monsters in the same way have eons of experience with weapons of their own. Once again, the Minotaur most likely has been using his ax for a few thousand years. Guns on the other hand have only been around a few hundred and have only become really good accuracy/reloading wise in the past hundred, a blip on the radar as far as time goes, especially for gods and monsters.