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I was a drama kid and as such am usually the loud, boisterous one when playing DnD (as DM or player). I've come to terms that most of my friends are going to appreciate my roleplaying, but respond mostly out of character, and that's fine.
But when someone does respond in a character voice, it feels so great!
I try, the shell I need to crawl out of is large, and comfy though. It was easy being the big dumb fighter type, who would interject with things like "can I smash now?" Or asking the party "can we cook this?"
I've now got a face character and uh, it's hard being a face. At least they are overly dramatic, I can stall conversation with drama.
Yeah I feel you. I'm doing two campaigns right now, one is my first time as a player and the other is the first time as a DM haha, as a player I'm a bard so the face of the party and my old-school improv skills are getting tested for sure!
Personally I find fleshing out your character's backstory makes playing them a lot easier. If you know your character inside and out, you don't have to translate an event into their "language" and think about what they would do or say from their perspective, you just let the thing happen and the character will tell you how they respond.